LINDABERGH KIDNAPPING:
The kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, occurred in 1932 when the toddler was abducted from his family home in East Amwell, New Jersey (near the town of Hopewell). The boy was subsequently murdered. Newspaper writer H.L. Mencken called the kidnapping and subsequent trial "the biggest story since the Resurrection." Bruno Hauptmann was convicted of the crime and executed by electric chair, though he proclaimed his innocence. The crime inspired the "Lindbergh Law," which made kidnapping a federal crime, and also inspired Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novel, Murder on the Orient Express (later adapted as a film and video game).
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