Lindbergh, Speck, Manson Connections

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Charles Lindbergh was a world famous aviator who was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic from New York to Paris in 1927. He immediately became a sensation around the world - the Roaring Twenties' answer to a rock star. In March 1932, however, his baby son Charles Jr. was kidnapped and murdered in what was then called "the crime of the century."

Richard Speck allegedly broke into a townhouse/dormitory of student nurses on July 13, 1966 and murdered eight of nine nurses, leaving a sole survivor who hid under a bed. This, too, was called "the crime of the century."

Three years later, the Manson Family allegedly broke into the Cielo Drive mansion of actress Sharon Tate and brutally murdered Tate, who was eight months pregnant, hairdresser Jay Sebring, Voytech Frykowski, Steven Parent, and coffee heiress Abigail Folger. This took place on August 9, 1969 and was also called "the crime of the century." 

How do they all link by names?

Charles Lindbergh's father's name was Carl Augustus Mansson. He changed his name to Lindbergh after emigrating from Sweden to the United States.

Richard Speck's birth name was Richard Franklin Speck but he changed it when his mother married his stepfather - whose name was Carl Augustus Rudolph Lindbergh. For several years Speck went by the name 'Richard Franklin Lindbergh.'

Thus, Manson, Lindbergh, and Speck - participants in three "crimes of the century" - are mysteriously linked by these three famous names.

But that's not all. The convicted kidnapper/murderer was a German immigrant named Bruno Richard Hauptmann, sharing Speck's name and nationality. Both were sentenced to death by electric chair but Speck's sentence was commuted to life in prison. 

And there is evidence to suggest that neither man was guilty. 

You can read about the comprehensive story of Richard Speck and the mass murder of eight Chicago nurses in this riveting book, Richard Speck and the Eight Nurses:  Deconstructing A Mass Murder, available in ebook and print format from Amazon.com and all other online retailers.