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On the evening of March 1, 1932, Charles Lindbergh Jr., son of aviator Charles Lindbergh, was kidnapped from Highfields, New Jersey; a homemade ladder was found under the window of the child's room. The $50,000 demanded in a ransom note had been delivered by John F. Condon , but the infant's body was found on May 12 in woods 4 miles (6.4 km ...
Hauptmann's Ladder: A Step-by-Step Analysis of the Lindbergh Kidnapping. Kent State University Press. ISBN 978-1-60635-193-2. Cook, William A. (2014). The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping. Sunbury Press. ISBN 978-1-6200-6339-2. Doherty, Thomas (2020). Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century. Columbia University Press.
Lindbergh identifies the body at that of his missing child. By November 1933, New York City detectives are tracing Gold Certificates, contained in the ransom money, that are now entering circulation. On September 15, 1934, a breakthrough is made when a gas station attendant receives a gold certificate from a customer.
Because on May 12, 1932, 72 days after Charles Jr. had first been reported as missing, the child's body was found "alongside a highway near the Lindbergh estate."
The 165-pound Schwarzkopf carried a sandbag weighing the same as Charlie down the ladder, and when he stepped onto the highest rung of the lower portion of the wooden ladder (which, like the real one, consisted of two hinged sections and a third one attached at the crime scene), the side rail split, just like on the real ladder.
THE FINAL SCENE. 1993. A clearing in the woods near Chicago, sun shining, puffy clouds. Robert Downey Jr., twenty-seven years old, just a few months past his Best Actor Academy Award nomination ...
The State also introduced photographic evidence demonstrating that the wood from the ladder left at the crime scene matched a plank from the floor of Hauptmann's attic. Condon and Charles Lindbergh both testified that Hauptmann was "John". Another witness, Amandus Hockmuth, testified that he saw Hauptmann near the scene of the crime.
A 63-year-old man has been found dead in a Chicago basement, tied up with duct tape and an extension cord, according to Chicago police and reports from CBS News Chicago and the Chicago Sun-Times.