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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 ...
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.
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.
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."
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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.
The pseudonym "Cemetery John" was used in the Lindbergh kidnapping case to refer to a kidnapper calling himself “John” who collected a $50,000 ransom from a Bronx cemetery on April 2, 1932. A month earlier Charlie Lindbergh, the infant son of world-famous aviator Charles Lindbergh , had been kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, New ...
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