True Crime

Rich and handsome, aviation here Charles Lindbergh was one of the most famous men in the world. But that fame made his baby son a target for kidnappers. Charles Augustus Lindbergh junior, only son of the first man to make a non-stop solo flight across that Atlantic, was put to bed at his usual time of 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday 1 March 1932. The 20-month-old toddler had had a bad cold, so Colonel Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne, had decided to stay on at their new country home near Hopewell, New Jersey, even though the builders were still there. Usually they went back during the week to New York, where they stayed with Anne’s mother, Mrs Dwight Morrow, on her estate in Englewood. Sitting after dinner with his wife, Colonel Lindbergh heard a cracking sound outside the house. He remembered it was shortly after 9 p.m. Anne put it down to a branch snapping in the high wind, and they thought no more about it. Later they would bitterly regret not going to investigate.   At 10 p.m. nanny B...

  Classification:  Murderer Characteristics:  Years of physical abuse Number of victims:  1 Date of murder:  July 18, 2010 Date of arrest:  April 22, 2011 Date of birth:  1983 Victim profile:  Kiesha Weippeart, 6  (her daughter) Method of murder:  An autopsy could not establish an exact cause of death Location:  Mount Druitt, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Status:  P leaded guilty . S entenced to a non-parole period of 16 years on July 18, 2013 Kristi Abrahams called 'putrid dog' and told to 'rot in hell' as she was sentenced to 16 years for murder of 'vulnerable and defenceless' Kiesha By Amy Dale - The Daily Telegraph July 18, 2013 KRISTI Anne Abrahams lived a troubled life "beyond most people's understanding", the judge who sentenced her today for murdering her 'defenceless' six-year-old daughter said. But the police officers who investigated her daughter Kiesha's death, and the community left behind to mourn her death...