(12) Bruno Hauptmann vs. Charles Lindbergh (1934)
             In 1927, the headlines screamed the news that Charles Augustus Lindbergh had flown across the Atlantic Ocean. On May 20, 1927, Lindbergh took off from the Roosevelt Field in New York, on a plane named the Spirit of St. Louis. He crossed the Atlantic Ocean in thirty-three and a half hours, covering 3600 miles in his journey, and landed in Paris. This trip was to be rewarded with a small sum of $25,000. When he returned to the US, he was considered a national hero and was presented with a Congressional Medal of Honor. He was nicknamed the Lone Eagle.
             Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born on February 4, 1902 in Detroit, Michigan. He studied mechanical engineering, enrolled in flight school, completed army flight training, and worked as an airmail pilot. After he completed his first well-known trip across the Atlantic, he made a non-stop solo flight from Washington D.C. to Mexico City. In Mexico City, he met and fell in love with Anne Morrow, who at the time was the daughter of the United States ambassador to Mexico, Dwight Morrow. Lindbergh and Morrow got married, and Anne became a co-pilot and a navigator, making a series of flights alongside her husband during the 1930s.
             The pair became very well-known, and were often bothered by admirers and the press. They then built a 20 room stone house for about $50, 000. It was located in a secluded area in New Jersey, and they assumed that no one knew where it was. They were supposed to return to Anne’s parents on a Sunday, but decided to stay a few more nights in their new home because Charles Jr, now almost two years old, was suffering from a cold. On Tuesday, March 1, 1932, their son was kidnapped. It happened sometime between eight and ten P.M. The kidnapper had used a hand crafted ladder to take the baby from its second-floor nursery. Lindbergh himself had to search the scene, but found nothing. He could not call t...