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37 SPRING 2018 BETTY GOW, the baby's nanny, put Charlie to bed at 7:30 p.m., the last person in the house to see him alive. Although she and her beau, a Norwegian sailor, were at one point under suspicion, she stayed on to care for the Lindberghs' second child. COL. H. NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF, the first superintendent of the New Jersey State Police, headed the investigation but was criticized for allowing Lindbergh to run roughshod over him. Did Lucky Lindy's interference doom the search? BRUNO RICHARD HAUPTMANN lived a quiet family life in the Bronx. He had no known ties to the Lindberghs but did have a criminal past capped by a stint in Germany's notorious Bautzen Prison. Did this 32-year-old carpenter pull off the crime of the century? —LC chance. Their refuge became a crime lab overnight, the command center for a kidnapping investigation led by a young and unproved New Jersey State Police — with the world watching agog. Tips poured in from some 38,000 correspondents. Insatiable interest drove up the circulation rates of U.S. newspapers by 20 percent. President Hoover discussed the case with his Cabinet. And back in East Amwell, state troopers and Lindbergh family and friends pursued every lead in a frantic search for the missing boy. Ten weeks later, about five miles from the Lindbergh home, a motorist stepping into the woods stumbled upon the baby's remains in a shallow grave. A kidnapping had become a murder. —Lori Chambers STATE TROOPERS AND LINDBERGH FAMILY AND FRIENDS PURSUED EVERY LEAD IN a frantic search for the missing boy.

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