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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.
Today, the Lindbergh phenomenon is a giant hoax perpetrated by people who are taking advantage of an uninformed and cynical public. Notwithstanding all of the books, TV programs, and legal suits, Hauptmann is as guilty today as he was in 1932 when he kidnapped and killed the son of Mr and Mrs Charles Lindbergh. [41]
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 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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 February 2025. Crime list This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of kidnappings summarizing the events of each case, including instances of celebrity abductions ...
Detroit Free Press newspaper clipping from Dec. 12, 1934, showing the Lansing's Kerns Hotel fire. Most state lawmakers at the time would take an apartment or a hotel room in Lansing when they were ...
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 ...