During the 1930s, the United States had experienced a series of kidnappings called "Ransom Kidnappings" done explicitly to make money from the victims' family, and normally from either middle class or otherwise wealthy families. This same series of kidnappings resulted in more well known cases such as the Charles Lindburgh case. By the late 1930s this type of crime was still occurring in large numbers and by 1938 another victim of this type of kidnapping was James Bailey Cash Jr., a child from Princeton, Florida.