Essay On Brun Bruno Richard Hauptmann's Murder

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This kidnaping became a conspiracy when they could not find the person who committed crime, people started making assumptions about who may have done it. Several of the public's ideas made sense, so people started to investigate on their own and found some things that made some people look very guilty. When the authorities made the arrest of only one person the theories grew more. Most people believed that there should have been more people arrested. Especially when the police only found a fraction of the money in the house and never found any of the other money. Some people thought that the police may have even had someone involved when the baby was found dead and they would still give no information about the crime or how it happened. This made the people very curious because it was a high ranking family that made the press a lot and when there was very little on the kidnaping of their first born child. …show more content…

This made for a trial Waller (1962) “that lasted six weeks and it had been argued in a million and a half words the official transcript filled thirty two typewritten volumes.” (p.497) this trial also made people suspicious about the crime because the main it was based off of what was said and there was no real condemning proof that Bruno had committed the crime. This trial ended with the death sentence by electric chair. This is the main reason we still have the conspiracy today is Bruno never committed to the crime and he is now dead. This makes it very hard for investigators now to figure out what really happened at the scene of the crime because all of the witnesses are dead. Now all they have to go off of is the records that the police had taken and what the papers and people had said about the crime back