What most likely happened to the Lindbergh baby

What most likely happened to the Lindbergh baby

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[tatata]

Allowing Lindbergh to be involved in the investigation is beyond bizarre.

[ahill]

The comments about Charles Lindbergh’s shame about his son’s imperfections hit home. I had an uncle I never knew, born in 1949 or so, who had Down’s Syndrome. He was put in an institution when he was 2 years old and his brother - my dad - never saw or heard of him again, and it haunted and saddened my dad his whole life.

[terrioestreich]

All of the photos they used for the baby were over a year old, and it's said that something was medically wrong with the baby and as he got older it was more apparent. Lindbergh who was big on eugenics, was ashamed of the baby and his physical and mental conditions, was harsh towards the baby and wouldn't even hold him.

[megnakamura]

The fact that he hid his child in a closet for hours as a practical joke tells a lot about Lindburg. That is a pretty sickening prank. He possibly did it in anticipation of the kidnapping/murder in order to buy more time.

[paulahurst]

My mother who was alive at the time said everyone believed that Lindbergh did it and framed Haupman

[GreatDayEveryone]

You missed a couple of critical points. His cruelty toward his son was persistent. He would throw things at the child to make him fall. The child had special needs and had developmental delays. The photo they released to the press was of the child many many months before. Lindbergh was a serial womanizer and had children with at least 2 other women. He insisted the dog be kept out of the room that night - the only time he did. I've no doubt he was involved, possibly as ringleader. Hauptmann may not have even known about his involvement (assuming Hauptmann was involved at all). A Nazi sympathizer, Lindbergh was no hero

[CandyGirl]

Lindbergh finding the ransom note after the nursery was already searched, not going to the function he was expected at, insisting no one see the baby between 8- 10, not allowing the authorities at the money drop off or those with experience in the investigation, doing a dry run by hiding his baby for hours in a closet (who does that?). I didn't even know the child had developmental issues, nor of the other masty elements of his personality.

[zacharypeacock]

Years ago i was a driver for a Senior Citizen program and i asked one of the passengers (who happened to be 100 years old) what was the one thing that affected her most in her life and she said the Linberg child abduction. This was such a big story and affected so many people...

[gottathinkupanewone]

I think Lindbergh did it himself. His behavior that evening was odd and out of character. He had also previously taken the boy from his crib and hidden him, telling the nurse and Anne that someone had "stolen our baby." The window sill of the window through which the boy had supposedly been taken was neither wet nor muddy. The ransom note was not found until AFTER the house had been searched; no one had seen it during the initial searching of the nursery. Lindbergh had been seen earlier in the evening with a ladder in his car. He then inserted himself into the investigation and even into the prosecution.

Lindbergh was a staunch believer in eugenics -- to the point of supporting Hitler. Charles, Jr. had multiple physical issues that kept him from walking normally, and may have caused intellectual damage. The boy's head was abnormally large, and his legs showed symptoms of rickets. He had been kept out of the public eye, and had not been photographed for months at the time of his death. Lindbergh's obsession with eugenics ultimately lead him to father several children in Germany with five different women, two of whom were sisters.

If the kidnapping was not an inside job, it seems too bizarre and complicated for one semi-literate man to have carried out alone.

[scottieeasley]

Nobody jokes about hiding a baby.
It's not a joke if baby comes up missing in future then it's a dry run

[dalehammond]

There's a lot more to this story that wasn't shared in this video. I used to collect Lindbergh memorabilia, but years ago when the whole story came out, I got rid of it. Today I don't want to have anything of him in my house.

[carlaschultheis]

He left a baby in a closet for hours? That’s very odd.

[spacecadet]

@1:40 Lindberg is not famous for making the first non-stop flight from New York City to Paris. He is famous for the first non-stop SOLO flight across the Atlantic.

[h.calvert]

I've read that the child had terrible trouble walking, & fell often. And that his father used to sit on the sofa watching, & pelting him with accent cushions, knocking him down, while laughing at him. If true, heartbreaking. 💔

[jerrybaharlias]

How could he be put "in charge" of investigating his own son's abduction? Why would the authorities allow such an absurd request to be honored? The buck should stop with law enforcement not the victim's father. This alone casts doubt on everything.

[barbaraiverson]

I watched another documentary that focused on Lindbert's obsession with genetics. He was worried that his son was slow in both mental and physical development. After all of his children were grown, he moved to Hawaii and left Anne in their home on the continent.

[Imeraldgyrl]

The public had no idea who the real Charles Lindbergh really was. He and his wife although they would have five more children, their marriage was difficult at best. He had at least three affairs that produced a total of six offspring.

[culturalobserver]

One story is that Lindbergh INTENTIONALLY killed his son because he hated that his son had problems with his little legs and struggled to learn to walk, compared to other babies they knew of. In the eyes of Lindbergh, his son didn’t fit the “image” of a “superior, Arian” child due to some physical issues, and it was a source of shame and even anger on Lindbergh’s part. An actor in Hollywood who befriended the Lindberghs, would say that when he visited the couple, the baby would struggle to walk across the living room and when he tried, Charles would kick him down with his foot, repeatedly! The hateful father, Charles, was an arrogant bully who was ashamed of his own child!! 😢 Lindbergh is no “hero!”

[Nobody]

I think his “hiding the baby” was him testing to see how long he could go unnoticed

[vetsai]

Bruno Hauptmann’s wife proclaimed her husband’s innocence for several decades until her own death😢