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The Ladder, The Ransom, And The Carpenter Who Changed America | The Missing Archive
In this episode of The Missing Archive, host Jasmine Riley examines the harrowing and historically significant Lindbergh Kidnapping Case of 1932. This narrative explores how the abduction of Charles Lindbergh Jr., the twenty-month-old son of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh Sr., became known as the 'Crime of the Century.' The story begins in the silent, hollow vacuum of the Highfields estate in Hopewell, New Jersey, where a homemade ladder was used to breach a nursery window, leaving behind only grief and a ransom note demanding fifty thousand dollars. For listeners interested in true crime…
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