Posted on 02/13/2010 11:08:20 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
SANTA CRUZ — The man who opened the door of an Ocean Street hotel room offered a deadpan introduction.
"I'm Charles Lindbergh Jr. Please, come in."
Immaculately dressed in suspenders, a starched white shirt, tie and gray dress slacks, the 79-year-old launched into detailed stories of a troubled childhood and why people should believe he's the son of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh — aka "Lucky Lindy," the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic in the famed Spirit of St. Louis.
Most people accept that Charles Lindbergh Jr., the first son of the famous aviator, was kidnapped and killed before turning 2 in 1932.
Many would be highly suspicious of anyone claiming to be Lindbergh Jr., alive and living penniless in a Santa Cruz hotel room with his cancer-stricken wife Adua, surrounded by all of their personal belongings.
"That's a doll made of me in 1930," he said, pointing to an antique on the hotel bed, which he says was purchased from a Lindbergh memorabilia collector in Los Gatos.
The widely known story is that baby Lindbergh was taken from his second-floor nursery in the family's home near Hopewell, N.J., and after a series of ransom notes, the little body was found eight weeks later, badly decomposed in a shallow ditch.
But Lindbergh Jr., who also has used the name Paul Husted and has spent his career selling life insurance, contends there was no murder, only a cover-up by his "coldhearted" father.
He Advertisement asserts that Lindbergh conspired with gangster Al Capone to get rid of his baby son because he was physically imperfect, born with crossed toes.
"When Al Capone was in jail, he asked my father, 'Will you get me out if I give you your baby back?'," Lindbergh Jr. said Wednesday.
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Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh have four living children. His DNA should be the same as theirs.
Of course if he is the “Lindbergh Baby” Who’s body did they find?
sounds like a CSI episode in the making. Maybe a Bruno Hauptmann descendant working for CSI helps solve the case.
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