Perpetrator
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
- Born
- 26 November 1899
- Died
- 3 April 1936, aged about 37
- Record
- Wikidata Q63731 · Wikipedia
Perpetrator in The Lindbergh Kidnapping
German-born carpenter convicted of the murder and executed; maintained his innocence.
1932–1936 · Highfields, near Hopewell, New Jersey; trial at Flemington, New Jersey · Executed
A ladder, a misspelled note and $50,000 in gold certificates: how the Lindbergh baby case ended in the electric chair, and why doubts still linger. Read the case.
Dated events
Bruno Richard Hauptmann is arrested in the Bronx after a ransom note is traced to his car.
Hauptmann is indicted for murder in New Jersey.
Hauptmann is convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death.
Hauptmann is executed in the electric chair at the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton.