Sometimes referred to as “The Lindbergh Baby,” Charles Lindbergh, Jr. was the real-life son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. When Charles was scarcely two, he disappeared from his bed in the middle of the night; weeks later, his remains were found on the side of a highway in New Jersey. A German man was arrested for the kidnapping and murder, which was seen by many as a ransoming gone wrong. The incident was often referred to as the “Crime of the Century.” In the world of The Plot Against America, Roth suggests that Charles Jr. was kidnapped by Nazi spies in America and sent to Berlin—the Nazis, Roth implies, used the child as leverage with which they could blackmail Lindbergh into enacting their fascist, anti-Semitic agenda in America. Though Rabbi Bengelsdorf and Aunt Evelyn both believe this scenario is the truth, many denounce their account as crazy or sensational.