Today in True Crime History: September 19
1 min readSep 19, 2020
1881 — President James Garfield dies after he was shot 79 days earlier.
1934 — Bruno Hauptmann is arrested in New York after ransom money links him to the abduction and death of the Lindbergh baby. He was executed two years later.
1937 — Seven inmates try to escape from Folsom State Prison. Two escapees, a warden, and an officer died in the process. The other five…