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 ...

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. was abducted from his New Jersey home with a $50,000 ransom note left behind. The kidnapping and impending trial garnered substantial media attention. At the time ...

Tabloids called the headline-making kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. in March 1932 “the crime of the century.” The victim was the first-born son of the nation’s most revered ...