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Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. (November 19, 1904 – August 29, 1971) and Richard Albert Loeb (/ ˈ l oʊ b /; June 11, 1905 – January 28, 1936), usually referred to collectively as Leopold and Loeb, were two American students at the University of Chicago who kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago, Illinois, United States ...
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Jun 27, 2024 · Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr., and Richard Albert Loeb were infamous Chicago murderers of 1924, who confessed to the kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old Robert (Bobby) Franks for an “intellectual” thrill.
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May 20, 2024 · On May 21, 1924, Nathan Leopold Jr. (left) and Richard Loeb (right) murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks. Leopold later described the pair's motive as “a sort of pure love of excitement, or the...
On the afternoon of May 21, 1924, Leopold and Loeb drove their rental car slowly around the streets of the South Side of Chicago, looking for a possible victim.
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.
May 20, 2024 · Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb killed a child on May 21, 1924, just for the thrill — and to prove that people with superior intellects could get away with murder.
Feb 1, 2024 · One hundred years ago, wealthy Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb brutally murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks. Why is popular culture obsessed with this horrific case? It...
