Summit County, Ohio, sheriff's deputies and federal agents found themselves investigating a wild rumor that the Akron youth was really the Lindbergh boy. Some began to have doubts when 4-year-old Bobby Dolfen was thrown into the international spotlight in January 1936. History books record that the 20-month-old baby was stolen from his crib March 1, 1932, from the second-story nursery of the Lindberghs' home near Hopewell, N.J.Īlthough the Lindberghs paid a $50,000 ransom, the toddler's body was discovered May 12 of that year in a wooded area only a few miles from the family home. Yes, that Lindbergh baby-Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the kidnapped son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and author Anne Morrow Lindbergh. 'You don't run around telling people, 'I was the Lindbergh baby back in 1936,' ' Dolfen explains. Nor do other retirees from PPG Industries. The 68-year-old Norton, Ohio, man has always maintained silence about his family's secret.
ROBERT DOLFEN'S STORY is so fantastic that sometimes he doesn't seem to believe it himself.īut then he remembers the unusual circumstances, the compelling testimonies, the amazing coincidences.Īnd he begins to suspect that the improbable could be true.
