While seven months pregnant in 1930, Anne flew with Charles for two weeks in an open cockpit at high altitude. The perpetrator of this earlier threat was never identified.
Also during this time, youngest Morrow sister Constance received a letter threatening to abduct and kill her unless $50,000 was paid and placed in a specially made box in a cemetery….an eerie harbinger of the kidnapper’s ransom demand in 1932. Before marrying the middle daughter of Ambassador Dwight Morrow in 1929, he first courted Anne’s older sister Elizabeth, but dumped her for Anne within several months. Lindbergh was now the nation’s most eligible bachelor. Years later, a friend of his wife was quoted as saying “If he hadn’t made that flight, he’d be running a gas station in Minnesota.” He was just an average bush pilot who beat the competition across the Atlantic for the $25,000 prize. It didn’t seem to matter that if he had failed, other pilots would have made the crossing within days. And with this triumph, he emerged from virtual obscurity to instantaneous world fame, transforming an oddball loner into a beloved public figure.īut did this sudden adulation go to his head? A Lindbergh quote after his historic flight provides some unsettling insight: “There were times in an airplane when it seemed I had escaped mortality to look down on earth like a God.” In May 1927, 25-year-old Charles Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic in 33-1/2 hours, becoming the first pilot to accomplish this feat. Every biography of Lindbergh treats him like a god, and today he is still revered as a great American hero. The circumstantial evidence against Lindbergh in the death of his son is compelling, intricate, frustrating, persistent and mysterious. What if there never was a kidnapper? What if this loftiest of high profile crimes was merely just another missing child murdered by his parents? Or in this case, his father. A human monster who could smash a 21-month-old child’s skull. For over eight decades now, everyone examining this crime considered it a “ kidnapping“… when they should have been looking for a BABY KILLER! The kind of criminal who would murder a sleeping child in his crib, or kill him soon after the abduction to keep him quiet. Given Charles Lindbergh’s stature as an international hero, investigators in 1932 never even considered the unthinkable… that Lindbergh was a suspect in the death of his son. The woman told police she thought the magazine had been taken out of the gun and said it “accidentally went off,” according to the complaint.But until recently, no one ever took a serious look at those who should be the prime suspect when a child is killed…the parents. There’s no word on his condition, but authorities said he was facing charges for violating bond conditions that prevented him from having a weapon. He left and went into another apartment, where police found him after responding to a 911 call, the Kenosha News reported.Ī tourniquet was applied to his leg to stop the bleeding before he was taken to a hospital. The man, who was standing in a doorway, was shot in the thigh, authorities said. The woman, who a witness said had been drinking, picked up the handgun, “turned on the laser sight and was pointing it at the floor to get the cat to chase it,” when the gun went off, the complaint filed Thursday said. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.Ī Wisconsin woman accidentally shot a friend while using the laser sight on a handgun to play with a cat, authorities said.Ī criminal complaint charging the 19-year-old woman with negligent use of a weapon said she was visiting a Kenosha apartment on Tuesday afternoon where a 21-year-old man had brought a handgun.
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