A jury found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-death of Charles Lindbergh’s baby. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 89°F. Sunday, July 6th 2025 ...

On January 2, 1935, Bruno Richard Hauptmann stepped into a courtroom in Flemington, New Jersey, accused of the so-called crime of the century. Prosecutors were tasked with convincing a jury that ...

Bruno Richard Hauptmann, manacled between two guards, managed to walk from the Flemington courtroom after the death sentence had been passed on him last week. But as he was being led into his cell ...

KAMENZ, Saxony, Sept. 22, 1934 (UP) -- A gray-haired, wrinkle-faced little woman of around 70 years sat in the kitchen-living room of her home today and insisted that her son, Bruno Richard ...

Last week in the little old court house at Flemington, N. J., Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh sat in the same row, four places away from Bruno Richard Hauptmann when that stolid German ex-convict ...

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 ...

On this date in history February 13, 1935 Bruno Richard Hauptmann was found guilty of First Degree Murder in the kidnapping and death of the infant son of famous aviator Charles Lindbergh.

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. On April 3, 1936, Bruno Richard Hauptmann went to the electric chair proclaiming his innocence in the most famous kidnapping case in the history ...

In Hauptmann’s home, authorities found $14,000 of the ransom money, as well as the go-between’s phone number written on a closet wall. Hauptmann was indicted and pleaded not guilty. 1935 trial ...