This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. On April 3, 1936, Bruno Richard Hauptmann went to the electric chair ...

On June 17, 1932, Congress passed the Lindbergh Law making kidnapping across state lines ... man in disguise, motored to Indianapolis.Off the trail, Chief Purvis and his men did not catch up ...

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 ...

But running a kidnapping investigation was no job ... Hauptmann was indicted in October 1934 for the murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. The "Trial of the Century" got underway in the small town ...

“The Lindbergh kidnapping case is right at that intersection — it’s a crime story and a ... with Charles Lindbergh meant the Lindbergh story was different from other notorious cases, like the O.J.

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 ...

Pearlman believes Lindbergh was responsible for staging the kidnapping, and is pushing for ... 1934, and the trial lasted five weeks before the jury returned a guilty verdict.

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In 1935, after enduring a three-year ordeal involving the kidnapping and murder of their first born son and the trial of the man accused of committing the crime, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh ...