Case #2- The Lindbergh Kidnapping

In 1936, a man named Hauptmann was convicted and executed for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. He was only 20 months old when he was kidnapped on March 1st, 1932. His father paid the ransom of 50,000 dollars in order to get his son back but once Hauptmann received the money it seems he was taken back and never returned the child. The body of Charles was found two months later just miles away from his home. With how the ransom transactions went, it led investigators to Bruno Hauptmann. Once found and confronted, there was over $14,000 in his garage which he claimed not his. All the while claiming this money to have belonged to a friend, forensic science was used to match his handwriting from the transactions to the ransom notes. More forensic science was used to connect the wood in Bruno's attic to the wood used to make a ladder in order to get into the bedroom of this innocent child.




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