On March 1, 1932, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, the son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was kidnapped from his nursery, in Hopewell, New Jersey. Charles Lindbergh was a famous aviator who, just a couple years prior to his son's kidnapping, was the first person to ever complete a nonstop flight from New York to Paris. While his wife Anne Lindberg was also a pilot like her husband, and was the first woman ever in the United States, to be granted a glider pilot’s license. Charles Jr. was kidnapped sometime between 9 pm and 10 pm, and was reported missing to his parents by his nanny Betty Gow. Once Charles and Anne were notified that Charles Jr. was missing, an immediate search of the grounds ensued. A ransom note demanding 50,000 dollars was found on the window sill …show more content…
The ladder would later be found split in one of the sections and there were no fingerprints, and or blood stains, anywhere in the nursery. During the investigation, employees that worked at the Lindbergh house were brought in for questioning, to determine what they were doing during the time of the kidnapping. Eventually, five days after the kidnapping, a second ransom note demanding $70,00 was sent to Lindbergh. Then just four days later, on March 8, 1932, a third ransom note was received by Lindbergh's attorney, saying that the mediator that was appointed, would not be the accepted mediator. Instead, a retired school principal, named Dr. John Condon, would be accepted as the mediator, to go between the kidnapper and the Lindberghs. Dr. John Condon would message the ransomer through newspaper columns under the alias Jafsie, on March 12, Condon revived the fifth ransom note, that was delivered by a taxi cab driver named Joseph Perrone. Perrone, the taxi cab driver, received the note from a stranger who was not able to be identified at the