This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. 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 ...
FLEMINGTON, N.J., Feb. 13, 1935 (UP) - Bruno Richard Hauptmann was convicted tonight of America's most colossal crime, and he must forfeit his life in the electric chair for his murder of baby Charles ...
(Originally published by the Daily News on Feb. 14,1935. This story was written by Martin Sommers.) FLEMINGTON, N.J., Feb. 13. – While a howling mob of 5,000 men, women and children cheered and ...
Bruno Richard Hauptmann (center) consults with his laywers during pretrial court proceedings on September 20, 1934. Irving Haberman / IH Images / Getty Images On January 2, 1935, Bruno Richard ...
(Originally published by the Daily News on April 4, 1936. This story was written by Robert Conway.) TRENTON, April 3. – Inscrutable to the last, his face ashen gray with horror, Bruno Richard ...