Daily Mail News
By ALEX HAMMER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 07:18 EST, 9 March 2024 | UPDATED: 08:40 EST, 9 March 2024
Relatives of the German carpenter executed for the murder of Charles Lindbergh’s baby have come forward to cast doubt on his guilt.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann was put to death for his part in the case in 1936, and Lindbergh – a pilot who famously was the first to traverse the Atlantic – was never even considered a suspect.
He even helped lead the investigation into his son’s vanishing, which eventually honed in on Hauptmann – a 36-year-old carpenter who lived in the Bronx borough of New York.