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88 YEARS ON THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY

At 9pm on March 1, 1932, a 20-month-old baby slept soundly in his crib in an upstairs bedroom in Hopewell, New Jersey, in the US.

The infant, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr, was the son of famous aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne.

Baby Charles never knew it, but he had been born into incredible wealth.

His parents had a net worth of about $20 million in today’s currency,

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