Video: 'Where Baby Lindbergh Was Found (1932)'

(Thursday, May 12, 1932, 3:15 p.m. EDT; during the Lindbergh kidnapping) — The body of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh, the first person to complete a non-stop solo transatlantic flight — from New York to Paris — in 1927, was accidentally found, partly buried and badly decomposed, today near Mount Rose, New Jersey, in Mercer County.

Orville Wilson and his assistant, William Allen, had pulled to the side of a road about 4.5 miles south of the Lindbergh home. When Allen went into a grove of trees to urinate, he discovered the body of a toddler.

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The baby’s skull was badly fractured and the body decomposed, with evidence of scavenging by animals; there were indications of an attempt at a hasty burial. The coroner’s examination showed that the child had been dead for about two months and that death was caused by a blow on the head.

The body was positively identified and cremated at Trenton, New Jersey, on May 13, 1932.

Lindbergh had been abducted on Mar. 1, 1932, from the crib on the upper floor of his family’s home, Highfields, in East Amwell, New Jersey.

In September 1934, a German immigrant carpenter named Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested for the crime.