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May 20, 2024 · Leopold and Loeb were the two infamous Chicago murderers of 1924 who confessed to the kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old Bobby 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.
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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...
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Feb 1, 2024 · Leopold and Loeb pleaded guilty, and the judge eventually sentenced them to life imprisonment plus 99 years. The pair went to separate prisons, and their families disowned them.
May 20, 2024 · 6 min. Teenagers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb cruised around a leafy section of Chicago on the idyllic spring afternoon of May 21, 1924, searching for a neighborhood boy to kill. The duo...
1 day ago · One hundred years ago, two affluent and academically-gifted young men – Nathan Leopold, 19, and Richard Loeb, 18 – decided to commit the perfect murder, when they abducted and killed 14-year ...
Illinois v. Nathan Leopold. A tragedy of three young lost lives, a dead fourteen-year-old victim and the imprisonment of two teenage killers, unfolded in Chicago in 1924. The murder trial of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold that shocked the nation is best remembered decades later for the twelve-hour long plea of Clarence Darrow to save his ...