Joe Nocera

They spent a lot of their time in Englewood.

Dwight Morrow, her father, who was a financier and a diplomat, lived in Englewood.

They would spend the week in Englewood, and then they went to Hopewell for the weekend.

But the baby had a cold.

and Anne was feeling pretty rundown too.

So nursemaid Betty Gow, she puts the baby to bed.

At 10 o'clock, Betty Gow goes upstairs, opens the door, looks into the baby's bedroom, he's gone.

Anne would later write, at first I thought maybe Charles was playing a prank.

Believe it or not, believe it or not, he had once before hid the baby for 20 minutes from Anne and Betty as a prank.

He did weird things.

Yeah.

Maybe he's playing a prank.

Right.

Maybe he's playing a prank.

So they go downstairs, Betty and Ann, and they say, Charles, the baby's missing.

And he runs up the stairs.

And even before he gets in the room, he says, they've kidnapped our baby.

Now, here's another little quirky thing.

When Ann and Betty were in the room, they did not see an envelope.

When Charles gets in the room, now maybe he was there and they just didn't notice it because then they were panicked.