Mitchell revealed no signs of strangulation or bullets. The subsequent autopsy would reach the same conclusion. A visible skull fracture suggested a violent blow to the head had been the cause of death. Each article of clothing was exactly as Betty Gow had described, down to the scalloped flannel undershirt with its blue thread. He accidentally pierced the softened skull, leaving a small hole below the right earlobe. Under his direction, an inspector cut and peeled off each layer of the baby’s clothes, manipulating the body with a stick.
The officers returned to the corpse with Colonel Schwarzkopf. The police had a detailed description of what the child had been wearing on the night he was abducted. This is 72 days after the crime, after “the most widespread search ever conducted in police history.” The small body was discovered accidentally by a motorist who had pulled over to relieve himself on the side of dark country road. The clothes were in bad condition, but intact. But the eyes, the nose, and the dimpled chin left little doubt as to the corpse’s identity. The body parts had probably been eaten by animals, as had most of the viscera. Not only had the figure blackened severely, but its left leg was missing from the knee down as was the right arm below the elbow and the left hand. They carefully turned over what proved to be an incomplete corpse. More police were summoned to the makeshift gravesite. The size of the body, the shape of the skull, the still golden, curly hair all suggested the Lindbergh baby. The officers had a badly decomposed child’s body before them, face down in the dirt. Here’s the grisly scene as Berg describes it. I’m not sure they add up to anything, but they are the pieces that are most likely to stick with me. Here, then, are four small anecdotes from one man’s life. And a sizeable portion could probably cite something about his activities before, during and after World War II, where his views matured too late for most, especially given his status as an American Hero.īut other than that, what did I really know about Charles A.
Louis, everyone knows that, and the Lindbergh Baby, most people know that one, too. A biography of Charles Lindbergh, a prominent figure in American history that, I admit, I knew very little about before picking up this tome.
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