Lindbergh Kidnapping Flyer

Charles Lindbergh’s fame came at a cost. The Lindberghs' 20-month old son, Charles Jr. was kidnapped from his nursery in the Lindbergh family home in March 1932. In May, a truck driver found toddler’s corpse.  

The news of the child’s kidnapping stunned the nation, creating a media frenzy. More lurid press coverage followed the arrest, trial, and execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann in 1936 for the crime.