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, ...

Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s mug shot. The wooden electric chair where he was put to death. A sponge like the one that was dampened with salt water and placed on his head to conduct the deadly jolts of ...

Delve into the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby in NJ and subsequent "Trial of the Century" at a Mahwah Museum event.

A University of Kansas historian is looking for answers to a mystery that's nearly a century old. Could DNA tests shed new light on the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case? A University of Kansas history ...

One day earlier this month, Adam Schrager, a former Madison television newsman now teaching journalism at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, began receiving email links to a startling story from ...

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,” ...

Charles Lindbergh was a known believer in eugenics, and his son was ‘known to be sickly with an abnormally large head.’ Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr, son of the American aviator, on his first ...

American aviation and military officer Charles Lindbergh made history on May 20, 1927, when he departed for his first solo flight as a pilot across the Atlantic. Less than five years later, on March 1 ...

On March 1, 1932, someone abducted Charles Lindbergh’s baby from his house in East Amwell, New Jersey. The kidnapping of the son, Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., went on to become one of the biggest cases ...

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