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The Free Press Investigates

A New Series From The Free Press | The Lindbergh Conspiracies (EP02)

The Free Press Investigates

The Free Press

Society & Culture

4.716K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Charles Lindbergh is not just the father of a kidnapped child—he is the most celebrated man on Earth, and increasingly the one shaping how the investigation unfolds. But behind the heroic image is a more complicated figure: both controlling and naive, and willing to overrule the police entrusted with finding his son. Does Lindbergh’s strange behavior hold any clues to the mystery? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The internet is coaching our kids.

0:04.0

When boys hear that on repeat, it shapes how they see themselves.

0:08.0

We can't leave it to those voices.

0:10.0

We have to be louder.

0:12.0

Together with EEE, we need to coach them, guide them, back them.

0:15.0

Building our boys up every chance we get.

0:18.0

Be yourself. Back your mates.

0:20.0

Confidence comes from a vin.

0:21.1

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0:26.4

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0:33.1

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0:42.2

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0:44.4

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0:52.2

Charles Lindberg was not the world's friendliest guy.

0:56.1

I think when it came to dealing with aircraft, he was probably a mechanical genius.

1:02.8

But I don't think I'd like him.

1:05.3

A genius, sure.

1:06.8

But not a very nice person seems to be the unanimous opinion among Lindbergologists.

1:11.6

He made his wife fly with him in those 1920-eraplanes when she was pregnant and had morning sickness.

1:18.6

He played ridiculous practical jokes that no one else found funny,

1:22.6

like putting ice down someone's back at a dinner party.

1:26.6

In an effort to prevent his son from being coddled, he could be quite cruel.

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