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In shock value, in terms of human interest, it was the Crime of the Century: Someone had dared to kidnap and kill the infant son of the man then regarded as the world's greatest hero. No mere football hero admired by sports fans, no astronaut propelled by the machinery of modern science, but Charles A. Lindbergh, the young man who had flown the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927. Nicknamed Lucky Lindy and …

…by one Isidor Fisch, a fur dealer he knew who had fled to Germany and died there ...a story beyond corroboration. Who would believe Hauptmann's wife, Anna, who protested that on the night of the kidnapping she had been home with Hauptmann in the Bronx? Hauptmann was extradited to New Jersey. On January 2nd, 1935, the spotlight fell on the century-old Hunterdon County courthouse in the little borough of Flemington for the Trial of the Century.