Introduction to the Criminal Justice System
CJ-101-06 The Lindbergh baby kidnapping trial was considered the crime of the century in the United States and the rest of the world. This was because it involved the kidnapping of the son of Charles Lindbergh, the first aviator to have crossed the Atlantic and idolized by the Americans as its national hero. The kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. who was 20 months old at that time, occurred late at night on March 1, 1932 in the Lindbergh home somewhere in New Jersey. The boy was taken from the nursery, while his parents were in an adjoining ...