Bruno Hauptmann was a German ex-convict and the amn who had kidnapped Charles Lindbergh Junior. The Linbergh kidnapping became known as "the crime of the century". He was believd to have climbed up a ladder that was placed quietly under the bedroom window of the child's room and and snatched him by wrapping him in a blanket. He left a note demanding $50,000 on the radiator. Though the ransom was delivered the infant was not returned A corpse identified as the boys was found in the woods 4 miles from the Lindbergh home. At the crime scene a wood expert Arthur Koehler was called in and saw the ladder was made quite badly. The evidence of the wood was used at Hauptmann's trial and although he always claimed he was innocent he was sent to the elctric chair and executed