Anne
Morrow Lindbergh
1906-2001
Anne Morrow Lindbergh was the wife of aviator
Charles Lindbergh. She was well-regarded poet and a flyer in her own right.
What follows is sad. You might want to skip it.
In 1932, the Lindberghs' year-old son disappeared from his bedroom in
their New Jersey estate, replaced by a barely-literate ransom note.
This was followed by an unsuccessful nationwide manhunt and payment of the ransom. Then
two months later, searchers found the baby's body hastily hidden in the
woods near the house, evidently killed the night of the kidnapping.
After a couple of years, some of the ransom money began to show up in New
York City. It was eventually traced to a German immigrant, Bruno
Hauptmann. He was easily connected to several other pieces of evidence.
Hauptmann was found guilty after the Trial of the Century in 1935 and executed the next year.
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