American aviation and military officer Charles Lindbergh made history on May 20, 1927, when he departed for his first solo flight as a pilot across the Atlantic. Less than five years later, on ...

and he must forfeit his life in the electric chair for his murder of baby Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. Back to top ...

Someone had taken 20-month-old Charles “Charlie” Augustus Lindbergh Jr., leaving a ransom note demanding $50,000 on the windowsill. At the crime scene, police recorded a broken ladder outside ...

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. was born on June 22, 1930. The son of Charles Lindbergh, the famed aviator, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the daughter of a diplomat, Baby Charlie was destined for fame.

Tabloids called the headline-making kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. in March 1932 “the crime of the century.” ...

The murderer was referring to Richard Hauptmann, the German-born man executed for the kidnapping and murder of Lindbergh’s infant son, Charles Jr. in New Jersey in 1932. Lindbergh was the first ...

On March 1, 1932, at about 10 p.m., Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh faced every parent’s worst nightmare – their 20-month-old son, Charles Lindbergh Jr., missing from his room. The crime ...

It’s every parent’s nightmare, one from which even being rich and famous doesn’t protect you. Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the Lindbergh baby, was kidnapped on March 2, 1932, taken from his crib on ...

History now tells us that Lindbergh’s obsession with the “Aryan” race was such that he had a second family in Germany, unbeknownst to his wife and his family on this side of the Atlantic. Again, a ...

and he must forfeit his life in the electric chair for his murder of baby Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. Back to top ...