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 ...

The child had been dead, probably due to a fractured skull, since the night of the kidnapping. Two days later Charles Lindbergh identified his son's body by examining its teeth. The kidnapping ...

21, 1934 (UP)Bruno Richard Hauptmann, German convict, today was charged with the murder of the kidnaped son of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh in an extradition warrant demanding his return to ...

“As a young boy growing up, Sendak was terrified that something could happen to him, because if Charles Lindbergh’s son can be kidnapped, even a little boy in Brooklyn like him could be kidnapped.” ...

Fact-based story of the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr., son and namesake of the famed pilot, and ensuing trial of accused and convicted killer, Bruno Hauptmann.

W hen Charles Lindbergh’s 20-month-old son was kidnapped in 1932 and his corpse was found two months later, it was considered ...

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 ...

Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the Lindbergh baby, was kidnapped on March 2 ... At the Lindberghs’ request, their son was cremated. Two years later, tracked down and surveilled after spending some of ...

The child had been dead, probably due to a fractured skull, since the night of the kidnapping. Two days later Charles Lindbergh identified his son's body by examining its teeth. The kidnapping ...

21, 1934 (UP)Bruno Richard Hauptmann, German convict, today was charged with the murder of the kidnaped son of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh in an extradition warrant demanding his return to ...