Who Killed the Lindbergh Baby?
When the baby son of Charles Lindbergh was snatched from his crib on a March evening in 1932, the kidnapper left a ransom note demanding $50,000. Over the next several weeks, a dozen more ransom notes popped up, asking for bigger sums of money and telling the world-renowned aviator where to leave it.
For 74 years, the notes have intrigued professional and amateur detectives alike. Who wrote them? And did the same person kill Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who was found dead two months later near his New Jersey home?
A German immigrant named Bruno Hauptmann was eventually convicted of the crime and executed, partly on the basis of an FBI analysis that matched his handwriting to the ransom notes. But questions have persisted ever since.
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