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Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. (November 19, 1904 – August 29, 1971) [1] and Richard Albert Loeb ( / ˈloʊb /; 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 ...
- Murder, kidnapping
- Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr., November 19, 1904, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
- Life + 99 years' imprisonment
- August 29, 1971 (aged 66), Puerto Rico
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...
Aug 1, 2018 · August 1, 2018 By Nina Barrett. VIA AGATE. There are signs that, even though 90 years have passed since Bobby Franks’s life was abruptly and infamously terminated by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, visitors to Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago still think to make pilgrimages to his tomb.
Nov 13, 2009 · May | 21. Choose another date. 1924. Murderers Leopold and Loeb gain national attention. Fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks is abducted from a Chicago, Illinois, street and killed in what later...
Mar 31, 2016 · Leopold and Loeb were wealthy men’s sons — and looked down their noses at those who weren’t. They put on a show of being bored in court, smirking and grinning. After one session, 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 clients from the gallows.
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.
