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Episode Date: May 12, 2026

Veteran reporter Joe Nocera investigates a 94-year-old crime that deserves a second look: the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. Little Lindy was the infant son of the most famous man in the world at the time, an aviator who had achieved impossible feats. Unsurprisingly, the case was a media sensation in 1932, especially when German immigrant Bruno Hauptmann was tried and executed for the crime. Hauptmann professed his innocence to the end; could he have been telling the truth? Joe embeds with a community of sleuths who think so, believing the authorities convicted the wrong guy and fighting for the DNA to be tested to prove it. This is a series that asks: Was this case America’s first great conspiracy? Subscriber here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was the crime of the century. A baby kidnapped and held for ransom. Then the child was inexplicably murdered, and his body abandoned in a woodland. A man was arrested, tried, convicted, and executed. But did they get the wrong man? And did this botched case spark America's obsession with conspiracies? From me, Joe Nocira,

creator of the podcast turned Apple TV series, The Shrink Next Door, and the team behind Audible smash hit Agatha Christie and the Dandelion Poisoner. The Free Press presents the Lindbergh conspiracies.