American Police Officers Searching the Area Outside American Aviator Charles Augustus Lindberghs House During a Kidnapping Investigation, 1930s. The Lindbergh Baby kidnapping case of 1932 - "the crime of the century". The police force, overwhelmed by the crime and the attention that it attracts...does its best...One of the greatest and most extensive searches in history combs the area around the Lindbergh home [in New Jersey]. From "Time To Remember - The Tough Guys", 1930s (Reel 2); documentary film, mainly about life in depression- and gangster-hit America.