Who Really Kidnapped the Lindbergh Baby? Retired Judge Believes Charles Lindbergh Offered Up His Child For Medical Experiments

Charles Lindbergh was a known believer in eugenics, and his son was ‘known to be sickly with an abnormally large head.’

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr, son of the American aviator, on his first birthday in 1931. A few months later he was kidnapped from his home and murdered. BIPS/Getty Images

It may be the most notorious kidnapping case in American history: the baby of famous aviator Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped nearly 100 years ago in a story so sensational that it led Congress to make kidnapping across state lines a federal crime. A German-born carpenter was charged, convicted and executed for the boy’s murder.  But a retired California judge now says the criminal justice system got it wrong.

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