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May 21, 2012 · The house once owned by Bobby's millionaire father, Jacob Franks, is the only relic that remains from the news-making crime based in the Kenwood community, according to the Chicagoland Real Estate Forum. The three-story house had fallen into disrepair after more than 10 years of vacancy.
After a lengthy search for a suitable victim, mostly on the grounds of the Harvard School for Boys in the Kenwood area, where Leopold had been educated, the pair decided upon Robert "Bobby" Franks, the 14-year-old son of wealthy Chicago watch manufacturer Jacob Franks. Bobby Franks was an across-the-street neighbor of Loeb's who had played ...
May 20, 2024 · On the afternoon of May 21, 1924, Franks came across 18-year-old Richard Loeb, an acquaintance he sometimes played tennis with, while walking home from school in Chicago.
May 5, 2024 · On May 21, 1924, Bobby Franks hesitated when a car pulled alongside him and he was offered a ride home from school. He was a 14-year-old student at the Harvard School for Boys at 4731 S....
For 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.
Feb 1, 2024 · 1 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...
Mar 4, 2024 · Nathan Leopold, 19, and Richard Loeb, 18, picked Bobby Franks, 14, as their victim. ... in 1959 after spending time in the Audy Home — Chicago’s “reform school” of that era — for ...
