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Bruno Richard Hauptmann (November 26, 1899 – April 3, 1936) was a German-born carpenter who was convicted of the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the 20-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The Lindbergh kidnapping became known as the "crime of the century". [1]
The Case That Never Dies: The Lindbergh Kidnapping. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-813-53385-6. Kennedy, Sir Ludovic (1985). The Airman and the Carpenter: The Lindbergh Kidnapping and the Framing of Richard Hauptmann. Viking Press. ISBN 0-670-80606-4. Kurland, Michael (1994). A Gallery of Rogues: Portraits in True Crime. Prentice Hall General ...
A New Jersey judge has denied an amateur investigator’s efforts to reexamine the evidence that was used to convict Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the 1932 kidnapping and killing of “the Lindbergh ...
Ransom negotiations were unsuccessful, and his remains were found on 12 May. Hauptmann was found and arrested in September 1934, and was convicted of the crime on 13 February 1935, sentenced to death, and electrocuted on 3 April 1936. Congress passed the "Lindbergh Law", formally known as "The Federal Kidnapping Act of 1932", on 13 June 1932 ...
A new home, a new birthday and a new year. All in just over 365 days. That's how long a triple-death investigation involving three NFL fans in Kansas City has remained open with no official cause ...
A suspect wanted on rape charges in Kitsap County was presumed dead 15 years ago after jumping from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge -- until two neighbors found out the wanted fugitive had been living ...
The film, like Ludovic Kennedy's 1985 book The Airman and the Carpenter upon which it is based, presents Bruno Richard Hauptmann as not guilty of the Lindbergh abduction and murder for which he was tried and executed. It suggests at least one of the perpetrators was Isidor Fisch, an associate of Hauptmann's who had conned several of the local ...
A former Inglewood teacher convicted last month of murdering one woman and kidnapping and sexually assaulting a second one nearly two decades ago has died in custody while awaiting sentencing ...