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What few not actually connected with the investigation knew was that the kidnapper or kidnappers had established contact with the Lindbergh family through an intermediary, the eccentric Dr. John Condon. Arrangement was made for a partial payment, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, to be made in a cemetery in the Bronx. This exchange, which took place in the dead of night, brought the doctor into contact with the kidnapper and gave Lindbergh, who was also present, but at some distance, an opportunity to hear an accented voice, if only for a few seconds, call out to Condon. In May, approximately one month after the first of the ransom notes was delivered and a portion of the ransom paid, the body of the Lindbergh child was discovered a short distance from his parents' home. No further demands for the payment of ransom were ever...
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