Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
It was the "trial of the century": Bruno Richard Hauptmann, accused in the kidnap and murder of the son of one of America's most beloved heroes, Charles Lindbergh. Convicted of first-degree murder, Hauptmann was sent to the electric chair, proclaiming his innocence until the very end. Did he really kidnap and murder the Lindbergh baby, and even if he did, could he have done it alone?
The former FBI Agent and criminology professor Jim Fisher has written extensively about the Lindbergh baby case, and he believes that, based on the forensic evidence, Hauptmann was indeed guilty: https://jimfisher.edinboro.edu/lindbergh/intro.html
Still, the argument continues to this day.
It was the "trial of the century": Bruno Richard Hauptmann, accused in the kidnap and murder of the son of one of America's most beloved heroes, Charles Lindbergh. Convicted of first-degree murder, Hauptmann was sent to the electric chair, proclaiming his innocence until the very end. Did he really kidnap and murder the Lindbergh baby, and even if he did, could he have done it alone?
The former FBI Agent and criminology professor Jim Fisher has written extensively about the Lindbergh baby case, and he believes that, based on the forensic evidence, Hauptmann was indeed guilty: https://jimfisher.edinboro.edu/lindbergh/intro.html
Still, the argument continues to this day.
