On April 3, 1936, Bruno Richard Hauptmann went to the electric chair proclaiming his innocence in the most famous kidnapping case in the history of the United States. Nearly a century later, a new, ...
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 Baby,” ...
True crime podcasts and documentaries are all the rage, but long before trials were televised and social media fueled speculation, there was one case that the public obsessed over. The 1935 trial of ...
Eighty-five years ago this month, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, accused of kidnapping and murdering the infant son of Charles Lindbergh, stood trial in what the news media described as “The Trial of the ...
New York Nazis who have used fund-raising rallies for Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s defense to disseminate anti-Jewish propaganda received a severe setback yesterday when the city administration ...