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For the first time in 56 years, Anna Hauptmann returned last fall to the town where her husband was sentenced to death for kidnapping and killing the Lindbergh baby.

”I don`t know if I am strong enough,” she told her lawyer.

Half a century later, the screams of ”Baby killer!” still ring in her ears. It was in Flemington, N.J., in 1935, after three desperate years of trying to find a suspect, that a jury convicted Bruno Richard Hauptmann of slipping into the mansion of aviator Charles A.

Lindbergh-the most famous man in America at the time-and abducting his firstborn son.

The State of New Jersey electrocuted Hauptmann in 1936.

The widow never stopped fighting to clear his name. ”It is the reason God keeps me alive,” she has often said.

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”Wouldn`t a husband expect a wife keeps on fighting, until her last breath?”

But now, at 93, Anna Hauptmann grows weary of the fight. Her optimism-her hallmark-is waning. And so is her health.

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