No adult fingerprints were found in the baby's room, including in areas witnesses admitted to touching, such as the window, but the baby's fingerprints were found. Hopewell Borough police and New Jersey State Police officers conducted an extensive search of the home and its surrounding area.Īfter midnight, a fingerprint expert examined the ransom note and ladder no usable fingerprints or footprints were found, leading experts to conclude that the kidnapper(s) wore gloves and had some type of cloth on the soles of their shoes. Re-creation of the ransom note's 'signature', with black dots representing punctures in the paper Whateley telephoned the Hopewell police department while Lindbergh contacted his attorney and friend, Henry Breckinridge, and the New Jersey state police. Taking a gun, Lindbergh went around the house and grounds with family butler, Olly Whateley they found impressions in the ground under the window of the baby's room, pieces of a wooden ladder, and a baby's blanket. Gow then alerted Charles Lindbergh, who immediately went to the child's room, where he found a ransom note, containing bad handwriting and grammar, in an envelope on the windowsill. was not with his mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, who had just come out of the bathtub. on March 1, 1932, the Lindberghs' nurse, Betty Gow, found that 20-month-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. The crime spurred Congress to pass the Federal Kidnapping Act, commonly called the 'Little Lindbergh Law', which made transporting a kidnapping victim across state lines a federal crime. Legal scholars have referred to the trial as one of the ' trials of the century'. Mencken called the kidnapping and trial 'the biggest story since the Resurrection'. Hauptmann's guilt or lack thereof continues to be debated in the modern day. Despite his conviction, he continued to profess his innocence, but all appeals failed and he was executed in the electric chair at the New Jersey State Prison on April 3, 1936. After a trial that lasted from January 2 to February 13, 1935, he was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to death.

In September 1934, a German immigrant carpenter named Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested for the crime. On May 12, the child's corpse was discovered by a truck driver by the side of a nearby road. (born June 22, 1930), the 20-month-old son of aviators Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was abducted from his crib in the upper floor of the Lindberghs' home, Highfields, in East Amwell, New Jersey, United States. On March 1, 1932, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr.

Two lawsuits filed by Hauptmann's wife against the state of New Jersey, arguing his innocence ( both dismissed) Child murder by head trauma, child abduction

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