The Nation - News from Oct. 21, 1985

Long-missing fingerprints from “the Crime of the Century,” the 1932 kidnaping-murder of aviator Charles Lindbergh’s infant son, have surfaced and may help shed light on theories that the Lindbergh baby was never murdered, lawyers said in Trenton, N.J. The finding of nine sets of fingerprints, believed to be those of Charles Lindbergh Jr., the aviator’s infant son, “is of tremendous significance,” said Trudy Maran, a New Jersey lawyer representing Anna Hauptmann in the $100-million wrongful-death suit filed over the 1936 execution of her husband. The existence of fingerprints has been confirmed by Col. Clinton A. Pagano, state police superintendent, who said of his plan for a Tuesday press conference: “We’ll have a number of interesting issues to discuss.”