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Lindbergh Case
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https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/lindbergh-kidnapping
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On March 1, 1932, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., 20-month-old son of aviators Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was abducted from the crib in the upper floor of the Lindberghs' home, High-fields, in East Am-well, New Jersey, United States. On May 12, the child's corpse was discovered by a truck driver by the side of a nearby road.
In September 1934, a German immigrant carpenter named BrunoRichard Hauptmann was arrested for the crime. After a trial that lasted from January 2 to February 13, 1935, he was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. Despite his conviction, he continued to profess his innocence, but all appeals failed and he was executed in the electricchair at the New Jersey state prison on April 3, 1936. Newspaper writer H L. Mencken called the kidnapping and trial "the biggest story since the Resurrection". Legal scholars have referred to the trial as one of the "trial of the century". The crime spurred Congress to pass the Federal kidnapping act, commonly called the "Little Lindbergh Law", which made transporting a kidnapping victim across state lines a federalcrime.
