Ellis Parker and the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping

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Charles Lindbergh Jr., was kidnapped in March, 1932, and his abduction and murder became the ?crime of the century.? This program is presented by the Museum Curator of History for Burlington County.

Charles Lindbergh Jr., 20 months old, was kidnapped in March, 1932, and his abduction and murder became the “crime of the century.” Through this presentation, the crime will be resurrected when Marisa Bozarth, Museum Curator of history for Burlington County, tells the story of Ellis Parker, whose career became entangled with the Lindbergh case and who had his own answers to the most hotly debated facets of the crime. Was it really Bruno Hauptman who stole the toddler from his crib in Hopewell Township, near Princeton? And was the frail body with the fracture skull that was identified as the son of the legendary aviator really that child? Bozarth will tell how, and why, Parker was able to secure a stay of execution for Hauptman; who Parker thought was the real kidnapper, and how his encounter with the case changed his law enforcement career forever.