Charles Lindbergh

historic tragedy, that is what the Lindbergh family experienced when Colonel Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic and just five short years later Charles A. Lindbergh, Junior was kidnaped. Charles A. Lindbergh, Junior was kidnaped from the family home in Hopewell, New Jersey on March 1, 1932. After a series of ransoms, fifteen in total, a truck driver found a body in the woods a mere two miles from the home on May 12, 1932. Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh identified the body as that of…

The Kidnapping of the Lindbergh Baby Overview: Charles Augustus Lindbergh was kidnapped at 20 months old on March 1, 1932 on the second floor of the nursery in the Lindbergh home. Document Examination: An analysis of Hauptmann’s handwriting showed similarity to the ransom note. Final Findings: The tool marks, wood was matched to wood in his attic, Condon’s number and address was found, and similar handwriting. The JonBenet Ramsey Case Overview: Six year old JonBenet was found murdered in Boulder…

In 1998, Havvard was taken into police custody once again from his grandmother’s house. At the time, it had been suspected that he had been residing with the woman for a while and that was the reason why the officers went there to locate him. They knocked on the door and requested that Havvard reveal himself to them, but he refused to do so. When he didn’t appear as soon as they asked him to, the police officers began to search the home in the hope that they could still find him there. The…

Lindbergh Baby: Overview- The 20 month year old baby was kidnapped in the baby's own home. They used the window and then left a ransom letter behind. The abductor got their money and said the baby was with two women but the baby was actually dead. A truck driver found the baby in the woods dead one day. Document examination- There was multiple different ransom notes sent to the parents saying to send the money for the baby. Officer Osborn carefully examined the notes for a while to try and link…

Introduction This world is comprised of men, women and children. Every day, there is a new child that is born. Every day there is also a child that is reported missing. According to the National Child Kidnapping Facts, there is a small percentage of children that go missing or has been abducted by a stranger each day (1%) (National Child Kidnapping Facts, 2003). In this body of work, a detailed examination of investigation procedures involving child abduction that results in homicide will be…

JonBenet Ramsey was murdered on Christmas day she was only six-year-old. In like a normal families night time routine the Ramsey’s went put their children to bed than the mother Patsy Ramsey randomly woke up went straight to kitchen where she found ransom note. The note was about two in a half pages long and it stated that the criminals wanted one hundred and eighteen thousand dollars for JonBenet Ramsey. Also, if the money wasn’t going to be taken out of John Benets account the next day the…

Kidnapping Kidnapping is usually interpreted as the taking of a person from one place to another against his or her will, or keeping someone in a small, controlled place for a long period of time. In some laws of kidnapping, it is required that the confining and taking be unlawful in purpose such as extortion or the facilitation of a crime. For example, a child’s own parents may be charged with kidnapping if the do not have legal custody rights in some instances. There are some differences…

Recently, there has been a spotlight placed on the issue of missing children of color in the Washington, D.C. area after the Washington D.C.’s police department most recent Twitter campaign provided the public with information of recent missing children’s cases in order to help locate the missing children. This campaign took on a new purpose once the public took note of the sudden multitude of missing children tweets, and many people assumed this was a sudden epidemic never before seen in the…

Was it the mother, the brother, or an actual murderer that killed JonBenet Ramsey? JonBenet Ramsey was a six year old girl who was brutally murdered. Today, the murderer still hasn’t been found. Was it her own parents as an accident or even her brother from being angry? This cold case has different theories and is still incorporated into pop culture today. JonBenet was the daughter of John and Patsy Ramsey. She was also the sister of her big brother Burke. JonBenet was an innocent little…

Two years ago nineteen-year-old Chun “Michael” Deng, a freshman at Baruch College, died from complications of traumatic brain injury during a hazing incident. Deng suffered injuries during a fraternity ritual on a trip to the Poconos in Pennsylvania. Few of Deng’s fellow fraternity brothers will face charges including hindering apprehension, concealing or destroying evidence, hazing, and providing false information to law enforcement. Out of thirty-seven fraternity brothers involved in this case…