Just three months after Lindbergh’s flight, pineapple magnate James D Dole offered the substantial sum of $25,000 for the winner of a race from Oakland California to Honolulu, Hawaii.
The “Murder at the Regatta” was a story of jealousy, passion, and some say even madness that shocked and fascinated the nation, and changed the very nature of how murder was seen and prosecuted in the United States.