Narrative Essay On Lindbergh Kidnapping

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Who Was Really Inoccent People in my family such as my dad I get really interested in the criminal cases.When we started learning about the lindbergh kidnapping it got me really involved. This lindbergh baby kidnapped happened 85 years ago. Bruno Richard Hauptmann Was arrested and Executed by the electric chair because they found 14,000 dollars of the ransom money in his garage as well as a small handgun. Personally I think that Bruno Richard Hauptmann was part of the kidnaping but didn't kill the baby. If you think of all that happened that couldn't of been one person scouting out the house and knowing when they were going to be home. Especially how did he know that that was the only window in the house that didn't lock all the way. I think that Bruno Richard Hauptmann Shouldn't have got the electric chair because if there were more people involved with the kidnaping the could have used Hauptman to find out information about the …show more content…
He robbed the mayor's house in germany including with a ladder and stole some money from that so he knows how to get into places with ladders. He also came into this country illegally by breaking his way out of jail boarding a ship heading to the US them lied his way through the border and came into the U.S.A. He also mugged a woman with a baby and they were by therself.
Basicly all the evidence pointed to Hautman. Either he was frammed and the people that killed that baby frammed hauptman or Hauptman did most of the crime and left evedence or he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time becasue he used some of the ransom money at a gas station and the clerk read the liscence palte and it lead to 14,000 of the ransom money.
The ladder was proven to be wood from Bruno Richard Hauptmans adic. They also realized that he was german and the guy that came and got the ransom money the guy could prove that he was

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