It was, beyond doubt, the Trial of the 20th Century (and, let it be said, nothing yet in the 21st century has come remotely close). It might also be described as the Circus of the Century, a media extravaganza in lousy taste, followed avidly in every corner of America and in most of the world beyond.
Above all, however, it remains a mystery for the ages. Was justice really done back in February 1935, when Bruno Richard Hauptmann, an immigrant German carpenter, was tried, convicted and sentenced to death in Flemington, in rural New Jersey, for the murder of Charles Lindbergh's 20-month-old son, Charlie Lindbergh Junior, almost three years before?
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