lindbergh baby

Charles Lindbergh’s baby: The forgotten case and the mystery by design

This was one of the most brutal cases ever and until today I didn’t know how the baby was murdered:
The child’s body was face downward, covered with leaves and insects. It was little more than a skeleton, the outline of a form in a dark, murky heap of rotting vegetation. The left leg was missing from the knee down, as were the left hand and right arm. Most of its organs were gone, scavenged by the animal life dwelling in the wooded area. It had decomposed so completely that it was not possible at first to determine whether it was a boy or a girl. The cause of death was a massive fracture of the skull. The body had been left to the elements for two to three months. Less than twenty-four hours later, and an hour after it had been identified as Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. by its nurse and father, the remains were cremated. Seventy-three dramatic days of waiting had come to an end.






The man put to death for the muder was Bruno Hauptman, a German immigrant.

Bruno Richard Hauptmann (November 26, 1899 – April 3, 1936) was a German ex-convict who was charged with the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of famous pilots Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The Lindbergh kidnapping became known as “The Crime of the Century.”