Richard Hauptmann, German-American murderer (died 1936)

Bruno Richard Hauptmann

German-American executed for kidnapping and murder (1899–1936)

Bruno Richard Hauptmann was a German-American carpenter who was convicted of the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The Lindbergh kidnapping became known as the "crime of…