Kate dives into the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping, exploring the crime, evidence, and theories about who was involved. She and Larkin discuss whether they think the man convicted of the crime acted alone, if the kidnapping was an inside job, and whether Charles Lindbergh’s interest in eugenics motivated him to get rid of his sickly child. 

CW: Violence against children

References

The Baby Alice Thumb Guard

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/lindbergh-kidnapping

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/lindbergh-kidnapping/

https://www.rutgers.edu/news/was-lindbergh-kidnapping-inside-job

https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/biopolitical-times/why-newest-lindbergh-baby-conspiracy-theory-isnt-all-out-there-disability

https://famous-trials.com/hauptmann/1405-clinderberghtestimony

https://famous-trials.com/hauptmann/1404-amlinderberghtestimony

https://crimearchives.net/1935_hauptmann/html/1935-01-07_trial_gow.html

https://www.fbi.gov/image-repository/lindberg_note.jpg/@@images/image/high

https://famous-trials.com/hauptmann/1389-#:~:text=Wilentz%20asked%20Lindbergh%20if%20he,a%20bizarre%20line%20of%20questioning.

https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1726&context=lcp

https://famous-trials.com/hauptmann/1398-ransom

https://www.bullionvault.com/gold-guide/gold-certificate

https://www.washoeschools.net/cms/lib/NV01912265/Centricity/Domain/1116/Suspect%20Number%202%20Violet%20Sharpe.pdf

https://dogs-in-history.blogspot.com/2024/03/dogs-in-charles-lindberghs-life.html

https://www.criminalelement.com/how-the-tragic-death-of-violet-sharpe-inspired-a-classic-mystery/

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2004-15002-003

https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=WIT19350202-01.2.18&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxCO%7ctxTA--------0------

https://www.agathachristie.com/news/2017/the-case-that-inspired-murder-on-the-orient-express

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bruno-Hauptmann

https://www.rutgers.edu/news/was-lindbergh-kidnapping-inside-job

https://www.the-sun.com/news/10801407/charles-lindbergh-baby-kidnapping-suspect/

https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/was-wrong-person-executed-in-death-of-lindbergh-baby-ex-judges-book-and-dna-quest-raise-issues

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