As the mother of a kidnapped child, I most strenuously object to the suggestion that the child’s father was responsible for his death.

The very idea is REVOLTING.

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by Anonymous

reply 13

March 6, 2024 12:54 PM

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At the time of the boy’s kidnapping his father was a national hero.

But history would come to view the renowned pilot who died 50 years ago far more critically. Lindbergh was fascinated with the study of eugenics and was vilified by the media after accepting a medal for his contributions to aviation from Hermann Goering on behalf of Hitler in 1938 — seen by many as a sign of his sympathies with the Nazi regime.

Lise Pearlman, a retired California judge, now speculates that Lindbergh was capable of something even more sinister: sacrificing his son for scientific experiments that led to the child’s death.

“I take advantage of the distance in time to treat the boy’s father as a potential suspect in his kidnap and murder; like all the others on the list, a fallible human being, not a demigod,” Ms. Pearlman wrote in a 2020 book, “The Lindbergh Kidnapping Suspect No. 1: The Man Who Got Away.”

It is a theory that other Lindbergh researchers view with deep skepticism.

Ms. Pearlman acknowledged that her findings were based on circumstantial, yet compelling, evidence about the crime scene, the condition of the boy’s remains and the research that Lindbergh was conducting at the time with Dr. Alexis Carrel, a Nobel Prize-winning surgeon and organ transplant pioneer.

by Anonymous

reply 1

March 5, 2024 4:52 PM

There were 11 ransom notes. Eleven!

Obviously a third-party kidnapping, not a household tragedy.

Now, I will grant you that it may be unlikely that Bruno Hauptman acted alone. Perhaps he had the assistance of a small, foreign faction. Communists, most likely. [whispers] Jews.

by Anonymous

reply 2

March 5, 2024 4:56 PM

Ms. Pearlman said she considered the apparent absence of blood in the woods where the body was discovered a smoking gun that proved the boy died somewhere else. Unexplored questions about the condition of the body and items found nearby have led her to speculate that Lindbergh colluded with Dr. Carrel, his friend who worked at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City, to experiment on his son.

‘She wrote that the boy, who had an unusually large head and took medicines associated with rickets, would have been seen as expendable to the men, who, as eugenicists, believed in improving the genetic quality of the population. She has concluded that there was a “horrendous probability” that the men removed his organs in hope of achieving a medical breakthrough that might help Lindbergh’s sister-in-law, who had a damaged heart valve.

To reach this conclusion, Ms. Pearlman worked with a New Jersey pathologist, Dr. Peter Speth, who evaluated records from the crime scene and autopsy, which showed that all the boy’s organs other than the heart and liver were missing. At the time, investigators deduced that foraging animals had mutilated the body as it lay in the woods.

by Anonymous

reply 3

March 5, 2024 5:24 PM

And Anne stood by and let this happen?

by Anonymous

reply 4

March 5, 2024 7:33 PM

I actually DO believe the same thing happened in the Lindbergh case as in the Ramsey case: an accident or disciplinary measure gone too far, followed by a cover-up.

by Anonymous

reply 5

March 5, 2024 7:47 PM

This woman is obviously an idiot.......how does she feel about Amelia Earhart?

by Anonymous

reply 6

March 5, 2024 7:49 PM

Eaten by cannibals, obviously.

by Anonymous

reply 7

March 5, 2024 7:52 PM

This is wacko. I realize Lindbergh is long dead, but perhaps we shouldn’t accuse him of mutilating and killing his child without at least a sliver of evidence.

by Anonymous

reply 8

March 6, 2024 2:17 AM

Killing the kid was a accident. Hauptmann was only in on the ransom scam, he never went near the child. Not long before that fatal night Lindbergh pranked the household by hiding the baby and pretending it had been kidnapped. And being he was America's Hero, he was more than happy to accuse an innocent man. Lindbergh put himself in charge of the investigation. I don't buy the eugenics thing. The man was a Nazi sympathizer with two other families while gaslighting his wife Anne and most of the country.

by Anonymous

reply 9

March 6, 2024 3:28 AM

Lindbergh was a Nazi. Go ahead and accuse him.

by Anonymous

reply 10

March 6, 2024 4:27 AM

I believe Lindbergh staged the kidnapping. There’s been at least one documentary theorizing and it made perfect sense. His kid was handicapped somehow, can’t remember how exactly, but to a eugenecist it was deeply embarrassing. The crime scene made little sense and it really pointed to an inside job by Charles.

This lady’s theory, however, sounds far fetched. Much more likely that he wanted to get rid of his deficient son without any of the dramatic harvesting of the kid’s organs or whateve. Pay a bunch of thugs to get rid of the proof that you have defective sperm/genetics and as a national hero, you’ll be believed.

by Anonymous

reply 11

March 6, 2024 6:08 AM

I was going to say, R9 - Lindbergh apparently had an odd - even cruel - sense of humour, and had played pranks before. The idea that it was a prank gone wrong (i.e. accidentally dropping the baby) isn’t so far fetched.

by Anonymous

reply 12

March 6, 2024 6:24 AM

The one thing the lady’s theory has going for it is the missing organs. I never knew about that.

by Anonymous

reply 13

March 6, 2024 12:54 PM