Jim Axelrod

I'm sure folks are looking for little Lindy's, either the baby alive or sadly, a body.

And eventually, a body is found.

Let's talk about Bruno Richard Houghton.

Right.

So one of the great three-name notorious people in American history, John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, Bruno Richard Houghton.

Yeah.

Were there any other suspects who were ever seriously considered as having taken part in the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr.?

Right.

But once they got Hartman, it was like,

We're done.

You know, it's interesting to hear you say this, Joe, about the idea, because what the prosecution's case essentially relied on was that Bruno Richard Hauptman, acting alone, drove from the Bronx on a random night with no idea, or he really should have had no capacity to have any confidence about it, that the baby was going to be there, the window was going to be open.

And it is the trial of the century.

So growing up, my grandfather and grandmother lived in Flemington, New Jersey.

And for years, in the 1930s, they had Axelrod's Pharmacy on Main Street across from the Hunterton County Courthouse.

My grandfather had a lunch counter, and I can remember as a kid him telling me stories of Damon Runyon coming in.

Walter Winchell would set up shop in my grandfather's pharmacy, Axelrod's Pharmacy, on Main Street

commandeer the phone.

And Winchell was really establishing himself for the first time as this sort of, he became this monster media figure.

Right.

But he put himself on the map with his reporting from the Houtman trial.