Original title
Crime of the Century
Released
9/14/1996
Origin country
DE
Genre
Crime, Drama, TV Movie
Production companies
HBO, Astoria Productions Ltd.
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Runtime
1hr 54min
In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation against Hauptmann, the trial, and the execution, painting a picture of a corrupt police force under pressure to finger a killer framing an innocent man by manufacturing evidence, paying-off and blackmailing witnesses, and covering up exculpatory evidence.
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