The Most Important Events That Changed History Forever

Kidnapping of the Lindbergh Baby (1932)

On March 1, 1932, the son of famed pilots Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh was abducted from his crib in their New Jersey home. Two months later, the child was found dead, and a German carpenter was arrested and found guilty of first-degree murder. The kidnapping has been called "the biggest story since the Resurrection," with the trial being dubbed one of the "trials of the century."

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