| The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping: Investigation Reopened | |
| Season Specials, Episode 06 | |
| Air Date | May 11, 2005 |
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The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping: Investigation Reopened is the sixth and last episode in a series of special episodes of Forensic Files.
Summary[]
On March 1, 1932, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. (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.[1] On May 12, the child's corpse[2] was discovered by a truck driver by the side of a nearby road.
In September 1934, a German immigrant carpenter named Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested for the crime. 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 this episode The 1932 kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. is reviewed.