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Read more: https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/lindbergh-kidnapping
TIL that Charles Lindbergh’s son, Charles Lindbergh Jr., was kidnapped at 20 months old. The kidnapper picked up a cash ransom for $50,000 leaving a note of the child’s location. The child was not found at the location. The child’s remains were found a month later not far from the Lindbergh’s home.
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TIL I’m so old that there are people who haven’t heard of the Lindbergh baby.
Another interesting Charles Lindbergh fact, he was a Nazi sympathizer and pushed an America First movement during World War II.
Ted Cruz strikes again!
And that is why the FBI is called in on kidnapping cases.
Theory that the baby was accidentally killed and Hauptmann was framed to cover it up because Lindbergh was an American hero. And with Hauptmann being German and Lindbergh a Nazi…