The Red Baron's final victim: Medals of RAF hero who dreamed of taking on German ace - only to be shot down and killed when they finally met - sell for £18k at auction.

Read a description of the NOVA program Who Killed the Red Baron?, originally broadcast on PBS on October 7, 2003. TV Program Description Original PBS Broadcast Date: October 7, 2003.

In the end, however, the Red Baron would not escape the carnage either.. On April 21, 1918, Von Richthofen was shot down somewhere over the Somme river on the Western Front.

A relative of the German World War I flying ace known as the Red Baron has been sentenced to 39 years in jail for killing her wealthy parents in Brazil. Suzane von Richthofen, 22, whose father was a ...