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THE body of Charles Lindbergh’s murdered child was found in a disturbing state that could indicate his kidnapping was planned, an author has said.
Little 20-month-old Charles Lindbergh Jr mysteriously disappeared from his second-story bedroom in his parents’ New Jersey home while five adults were inside.
On March 1, 1932, the nanny working for esteemed military officer Lindbergh at their house in East Amwell east of New York City went upstairs to Charles’ room and saw that he was missing.
After she told the family, Lindbergh said he found a ransom letter written in broken English in the room and noticed that the window was open, but the maid didn’t catch those details.
Underneath the window was a broken ladder, and police started looking for a kidnapper.
An urgent and widespread search was launched for the firstborn son of one of America’s most beloved heroes, who made history for being the first person to pilot a nonstop flight from New York City to Paris.
But baby Charles would remain missing until May 12 when a delivery truck driver stumbled on a small corpse off the side of the road in neighboring Hopewell Township.
Police said at the time that Charles had a fractured skull and appeared to have been hastily buried in a shallow grave.
Multiple arrests were made in the following months until German immigrant Richard Hauptmann was deemed a suspect by the FBI.
Following the demands of the ransom note, officials had paid out $50,000 by using a volunteer, but noted the serial numbers on the bills to track where they were spent.
Hauptmann was caught using a marked note at a gas station in the Bronx and was arrested in September 1934 after detectives said they believed he would flee the country.
However, it’s debated whether law enforcement had sufficient evidence that suggested Hauptmann was fleeing.
At trial, it was revealed that $14,600 of the ransom money was found in Hauptmann’s garage and that his handwriting was similar to that seen on the ransom note.
A former German soldier who fought in World War I, Hauptmann was slammed for illegally entering America and became known as the most hated man in the country.
A jury found him guilty and he was handed a death sentence and executed by electric chair in 1936.
HAUNTING EVIDENCE
Investigators believed that Charles was dropped from his window and died on March 2, but modern experts have poked holes in these conclusions.
In an exclusive interview with The U.S. Sun, retired judge Lise Pearlman recounted a conversation she had with New Jersey pathologist Dr. Peter Speth that completely altered her view of the case.
While working on a book, Pearlman reviewed crime scene docs with Speth, and remembered finding it odd that the child’s body was haphazardly thrown to the side of a road and partially buried.
Pearlman also brought up the fact that Lindbergh had quickly cremated his child before the medical examiner could perform a full autopsy.
Despite only missing for 10 weeks, Charles’ remains were mostly skeletal, and his kidney, lungs, and spleen were all missing.
At the time, officials said it was a wild animal’s doing, but Dr. Speth countered that the animals would have gone for different body parts.
Wild animals would attack the head and the liver, which were two parts of the body that remained untouched, Pearlman said.
If the kidneys had been left intact, there’s no way they would have completely deteriorated in just 10 weeks, according to the medical expert.
“He looked at the evidence and decided they were surgically removed,” Pearlman recounted.
DISTURBING TIES
In her book The Lindbergh Kidnapping Suspect No. 1: The Man Who Got Away, Pearlman argues that Lindbergh facilitated the kidnapping of his son to perform human experiments on him.
Despite his heroic status, Lindbergh garnered criticism for hanging out with pro-Nazi German leaders and had a known interest in eugenics.
He also co-wrote the book The Culture of Organs with Dr. Alexis Carrel, in which they “boasted about doing vivisection on humans,” to create the Lindbergh artery, Pearlman said.
What’s more, Lindbergh had 13 children throughout his lifespan and kept many of them a secret from his wife Anne Morrow.
Lloyd C. Gardner, a professor of history emeritus at Rutgers University who researched Lindbergh, said, “What we know about Lindbergh’s character is his desire to spread his healthy genes and his belief in the eugenics movement, which goes hand-in-hand with his pro-German feelings before the war.
“His secret affairs starting in 1957 with three women in Germany, two of them sisters, which led to seven children besides the six he had with his wife, are reminiscent of an experiment.”
Pearlman believes that Charles’ missing organs are proof that Hauptmann was wrongfully convicted and killed, and is fighting for her voice to be heard.
She also told The U.S. Sun that a key piece of evidence could be influential in proving the suspect’s innocence.
To anyone who doesn’t take her research seriously, Pearlman says they should read it for themselves.
