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  1. www.smithsonianmag.com › history › why-leopold-andWhy Leopold and Loeb Committed Cold-Blooded Murder in the ...

    6 days ago · Far from a whodunit, Loeb and 19-year-old Nathan Leopold confessed to the murder ten days later, after they became leading suspects. In police interviews, both men admitted the crime was...

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Leopold_and_LoebLeopold and Loeb - Wikipedia

    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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  4. www.britannica.com › biography › Leopold-and-LoebLeopold and Loeb | Crime of the Century, Murder, Trial, & Facts

    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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  5. www.bbc.com › culture › articleLeopold and Loeb: The grisly 'crime of the century' that ...

    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 took a...

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    • The Leopold and Loeb Trial | American Experience | Official Site | PBS
    • A look at an early "trial of the century" of Loeb and Leopold
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  8. www.washingtonpost.com › history › 2024/05/20Two teen prodigies shocked America with a cynical murder 100 ...

    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...

  9. www.thehistoryreader.com › historical-figuresLeopold and Loeb: The Original Crime of the Century

    Leopold and Loeb had stunned Jazz Age Chicago. The Bobby Franks murder was the original “Crime of the Century,” conceived and carried out solely for the thrill of it. Leopold and Loeb, sons of millionaires, had lacked for nothing: mansions, automobiles, stylish clothing, considerable bank accounts.

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  11. chicago.suntimes.com › columnists › 2024/05/19Leopold and Loeb's 'crime of the century,' 100 years later ...

    May 19, 2024 · On May 21, 1924, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped Bobby Franks and bludgeoned him to death. The “thrill killing,” one of many to be dubbed “the crime of the century,” remains a puzzle. By Neil Steinberg. May 19, 2024, 4:38pm PDT.

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