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Bookmark or Share- Leopold and Loeb’s Criminal Minds - Smithsonian MagazineHISTORY. Leopold and Loeb’s Criminal Minds. In defense of murderers Leopold and Loeb, attorney Clarence Darrow thwarted a nation’s call for vengeance. Simon Baatz. August 2008. The...
- Leopold and Loeb: The grisly 'crime of the century' that ... - BBC1 February 2024. By Adam Scovell,Features correspondent. Getty Images. One hundred years ago, wealthy Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb brutally murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks....
- Leopold and Loeb, 100 Years After ‹ CrimeReadsAt four o’clock in the morning on May 31, 1924 both Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold confessed separately to the murder of Bobby Franks. “The Franks murder mystery has been solved,” State’s Attorney Robert Crowe announced to a dozen reporters who had waited overnight for a break in the case.
- Leopold and Loeb | Murder, Trial, & Facts | BritannicaLeopold and Loeb, two celebrated Chicago murderers of 1924, who confessed to the kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old Robert Franks for an ‘intellectual’ thrill. Pleading guilty, Leopold and Loeb were defended in a bench trial by famed lawyer Clarence Darrow, who secured them life imprisonment rather than execution.
- 1924: Leopold and Loeb | Homicide in Chicago 1870-1930For Chicago, the Leopold and Loeb trial was the crime of the century. A fourteen year old boy, Bobby Franks, was murdered by two young men, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, both from wealthy and socially established Jewish families, simply to commit the perfect crime.
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