and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh in an extradition warrant demanding his return to New Jersey for trial. Federal authorities accuse him of planning and executing the kidnaping which was climaxed with ...
Prosecutors were tasked with convincing a jury that the defendant had kidnapped and killed the young son of star aviator Charles Lindbergh. The crime and trial fueled a gruesome media circus that ...
Despite his pleas of innocence, Hauptmann was indicted in October 1934 for the murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. The "Trial of the Century" got underway in the small town of Flemington, New Jersey ...