Surely The Most Detestable Crime In History! (1932)
Full title reads: “Surely the most detestable crime in history! Twenty months-old little ’Charles Augustus’ Lindbergh, found murdered near his home - 2 months after his kidnapping.“
Near Hopewell, New Jersey, United States of America.
View of the Lindbergh baby before the kidnap, he is looking out of the window.
More shots of little Charles Augustus in his cot.
Shots of the child outside in his pram. The voiceover talks about what a shocking crime the kidnap and subsequent murder of the ’Lindy Baby’ was. It is described as ’the foulest of crimes“.
(Spellings for search purposes - Lindburg, Lindberg, Lindburgh)
FILM ID:673.4
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