Who Killed The Lindbergh Baby Essay

Suzy Basak
Ms. Lo
Accelerated English Period ¾
Mar 28, 2023
Who Killed the Lindbergh Baby?: Case Still Unsolved. Around eight hundred forty thousand people go missing in the US every year. Around ninety percent of these end up being children. On March first of 1932, the twenty month old Charles Agustus Lindbergh Jr, son of famous aviators Charles Lindbergh Sr and Anne Morrow Lindbergh was kidnapped around nine o'clock at night. As soon as the kidnapping of the baby was discovered, it was reported to the police. Whoever had committed the crime had wiped the room empty of fingerprints and left a ransom note demanding fifty thousand dollars for the safe return of the child. Not long after this event the decaying body of the child was found in

According to Loyd Gardener from Rutgers University, “I don't think Lindbergh wanted the child killed. Obviously something went wrong. I think Lindbergh's idea, his overriding idea, was to get the child out of the household and into an institution. This is not unusual, for wealthy families to do something with a child who is not quite right.” Lindbergh himself had “Natzi Mentality” and he took part in a practice known as Eugenics. Eugenics is when people with “perfect” genes are “selectively bred” together to reproduce offspring that would also have “perfect” genes. Only the best of people were allowed to take part in this. This is where the problem comes in. Lindbegr Jr. was diagnosed with a condition that was somewhat close to Rickets that prevented him from developing strong bones. Jr also had a condition that caused him to have overlapping toes. This was not a good thing for Charles Lindberg Sr. because this proved that Lindbergh didn’t in fact have “perfect” genes. It would be horrible for the Lindbergh family’s reputation if the public somehow found out about this. Back in the day, it wasn’t very rare for parents to send their children away to an institution if they are “not quite right”. But at the same time, other sources claim that Lindbergh did actually want the child killed. According to Crime Traveller, “He was a scheduled speaker at the New York University alumni dinner, and Lindbergh never missed an opportunity to be adored and applauded. Yet on this night in question, he blew off this social function without even notifying them. Instead, he drove the two hours back to Highfields, where he arrived around 8:25