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May 20, 2024 · 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...
Apr 11, 2024 · At 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.
- Who Was Nathan Leopold?
- Early Life
- Relationship with Loeb
- Murder of Bobby Franks
- Prison and Death
Nathan Leopold was born in 1904, later meeting Richard Loeb at an elite prep school in Chicago. Obsessed with committing the "perfect crime," in 1924, the duo killed Loeb's 14-year-old cousin and contacted his family for ransom. The police found the body, and Leopold and Loeb—defended by famed attorney Clarence Darrow—were convicted of murder while...
Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. was born on November 19, 1904, in Chicago, Illinois. Leopold was the son of a wealthy family of immigrant German Jews who had made a freight and transport-related fortune since their arrival in the United States. Leopold was reportedly intellectually precocious at an early age, though the reports of this may have been...
Leopold graduated with honors from the University of Chicago in March 1923; as a transfer student, Loeb barely graduated from the University of Michigan in June 1923. Both men then pursued postgraduate studies at the University of Chicago, reuniting and developing a deeper connection. Leopold and Loeb were an excellent match psychologically: The br...
On May 21, 1924, Loeb and Leopold put their plan into action, collecting a rental car, obscuring its number plates and then driving to the neighborhood of Kenwood in search of a convenient victim. They settled on 14-year-old Bobby Franks, a cousin of Loeb's. Lured into the car, Franks was hit over the head repeatedly with a chisel by Loeb and gagge...
While serving his sentence in a Joliet, Illinois penitentiary, Loeb was viciously attacked and killed in 1936 by his cellmate, James Day, who claimed Loeb had made sexual advances toward him. Leopold was eventually granted parole in March 1958. He fled to Puerto Rico, where he taught mathematics at the University of Puerto Rico and also published a...
Convicted killers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb first saw it on the night of September 11, 1924. Found guilty of the kidnapping and murder of fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks, the pair had escaped the death penalty through the specialized skills of attorney Clarence Darrow only to find themselves condemned to life imprisonment.
Mar 1, 2024 · Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, who were convicted for the kidnapping and murder of Loeb’s cousin, 14-year-old Bobby Franks. Photo by Getty Images. By Benjamin Ivry...
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 Franks....
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May 20, 2024 · While some minor details differed between Leopold and Loeb’s confessions, the underlying story was the same: their plan was to execute a ransom with murder being incidental to the plot. In a comment to the Chicago Tribune , which he would later say was delivered with sarcasm, Leopold explained the indifference they had for their victim: “It ...
