Charles Lindbergh Research Papers

Charles Lindbergh was a famous aviator who received much fame for his flight around the world. Due to his fame, Charles and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh, purchased 390 acres of land in Hopewell, NJ and built a home in a secluded area of New Jersey. Charles and Anne had a son, Charles Lindbergh Jr., who was nicknamed Eaglet. The seclusion helped Charles and Anne escape the media and fan attention. Charles and his family typically stayed at the ranch every weekend before returning home to Englewood, NJ (Aiuto, 2015).
On March 1, 1932, the nanny, Betty Gow, had put, 20 month old, Charles Lindbergh Jr. to bed (The Lindbergh Kidnapping, 2015). The child had been suffering from a cold, so Charles and Anne had decided to stay at the ranch for one more day and take the child out in the rainy weather. Around 10:00 pm, Charles heard a noise which was described as sounding like an orange crate falling in the kitchen (Aiuto, 2015). A few hours later, Gow went to check on Charles Jr., only to find the child missing.
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Hauptmann was a German carpenter who had been in the US for 11 years. Agents found ransom certificates in excess of $13,000 at Hauptmann’s residence and a $20 certificate on Hauptmann. The next day, Dr Condon positively identified Hauptmann as John, whom he had paid the ransom (The Lindbergh Kidnapping, 2015). The wood from the rafters in Hauptmann’s home were examined by Arthur Koehler, of the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin, and found to be a match to the wood used as rungs on the ladder used in the kidnapping (Aiuto, 2015). Tool marks on the ladder matched tools Hauptmann had in his possession. The FBI gathered samples of Hauptmann’s handwriting and sent them to the FBI lab in Washington, DC. The samples were examined and found to be the same handwriting as that used in the ransom notes. (The Lindbergh Kidnapping,