Norman Schwarzkopf, willingly ceded major responsibility for the investigation to Charles Lindbergh. But running a kidnapping investigation was no job for an amateur. Lindbergh's inexperience ...

This case led to the passage of the Federal Kidnapping Act in 1932, also known as Lindbergh Law, which made kidnapping a federal offense and allowed FBI involvement in kidnappings where victims ...

But a search of the room soon showed her that he had been stolen. Five days after the kidnapping, Lindbergh said he would negotiate with the kidnappers through “underworld characters,” while ...

This, says American studies professor Tom Doherty, is why the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby deserves yet more examination, nine decades later. Doherty is a cultural historian with a ...

In 1935, after enduring a three-year ordeal involving the kidnapping and murder of their first born son and the trial of the man accused of committing the crime, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh ...