Lindbergh kidnapping
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On March 1, 1932, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Col. Charles Lindbergh and his wife, aviator and author Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was murdered after being abducted from his crib
Lindbergh baby poster 1
The ransom note
Aerial view of the Lindbergh estate in 1932
New Jersey State Police Superintendent Norman Schwarzkopf Sr.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
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Bruno Richard Hauptmann was a German-American carpenter and criminal who was convicted of the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh
Lindbergh kidnapping
…was discovered by a truck driver by the side of a nearby road in adjacent Hopewell Township. In September 1934, a German immigrant carpenter named Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested for the crime. After a trial that lasted from January 2 to February 13, 1935, he was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to…
Hauptmann in 1934