Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh. The child had been abducted from Lindbergh’s New Jersey home on the evening of March 1, 1932, and his decomposed body was found two months later in the woods nearby. He had died from a skull fracture. After a two year investigation, Bruno Hauptmann was arrested and charged with the crime. Hauptmann was found guilty of murder in the first degree, sentenced to death, and executed by electric chair at the New Jersey State Prison on April 3, 1936.