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Lindbergh Armstrong Case Analysis

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Being an author is hard work. You must make your work flow, and sometimes you have to alter parts of your work, multiple times. . For example, Agatha Christie wrote a book Called the Murder in the Orient Express. In this book, she used the real life Lindbergh case, and created a fictional case involving a 3 year old girl Named Daisy Armstrong. Despite the multiple differences in the two cases, they both have many things that tie them together if compared. They differ in who was involved in the case, the way the case played out, but they are similar in the end of the case, and the layout of the case. Charles Lindbergh was the 20 month old son of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Kernel Lindbergh who was also a famous aviator. ("FBI-The Lindbergh Kidnapping”). In the murder on the orient express, there was a case called the “Armstrong case”. In this case, there was a husband who was also a kernel, and a wife. "He married the daughter of Linda Arden, the most famous tragic American actress of her day. They lived in America and had one child, a girl, whom they idolized. When she was three years old, she was kidnapped, and an impossibly high sum demanded as the price of her return.” (Christie). In the Charles Lindbergh case, Charles was kidnapped, and the amount of money for his return was gradually increased through …show more content…

The man who kidnapped Charles Lindbergh was named Bruno Richard Hauptmann. He was a german man who had entered the United States illegally twice, and was the head of a kidnapping ring who had done this before. ("FBI-The Lindbergh Kidnapping"). In the Armstrong case, "This is the man who murdered little Daisy Armstrong,--CaSsetti.” (Christie) "About six months later, this man Casetti was arrested as the head of the group who had kidnapped the child.” (Christie). On the other hand, the man in the Lindbergh case was arrested a few years after the kidnapping. He was executed “on April 3, 1936, at 8:47 p.m.

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