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

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   Feb 1, 2024 · At the time of committing their crime, Leopold, 19, had just graduated from the University of Chicago and was hoping to be accepted into Harvard Law School while Loeb, 18, was studying history at ...

2. law2.umkc.edu › faculty › projectsLeopold and Loeb Trial Home Page - University of Missouri ...

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   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 ...

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   What happened to Leopold & Loeb?

   • Their trial began in July 1924 and quickly became a media sensation. Clarence Darrow, a renowned defence attorney, took on the case and argued against the death penalty. 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.

   Leopold and Loeb: The grisly 'crime of the century' that fascinated Hitch…

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   Why is the Leopold & Loeb case so interesting?

   • Perhaps the reason why the Leopold and Loeb case remains intriguing is because it subverts our expectations about the psychological and moral health that money is presumed to vouchsafe. In the America of 1924, as in the America of 2018, very rich people are not often publicly associated with gruesome murders.

   Reopening the Case Files of Leopold and Loeb

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   Who were Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb?

   • However, the US was indeed shocked in 1924 by two affluent students in Chicago, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, and their attempt at the so-called "perfect crime": a plan in which they believed they could achieve both the apparent thrill of committing a murder and the even greater thrill of not being caught.

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   What was the relationship between Loeb and Leopold like?

   • Loeb and Leopold had an intense and stormy relationship. At one time Leopold contemplated killing Loeb over a perceived breach of confidentiality. This relationship, described by Darrow as "weird and almost impossible," led the two boys to do together what they almost certainly would never have done apart: commit murder.

   An Account of the Leopold and Loeb Case

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4. law2.umkc.edu › faculty › projectsAn Account of the Leopold and Loeb Case

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   Darrow argues the Leopold-Loeb case before Judge Caverly. Few trial transcripts are as likely to bring tears to the eyes as that of the 1924 murder trial of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold. Decades after Clarence Darrow delivered his twelve-hour long plea to save his young clients' lives, his moving summation stands as the most eloquent attack ...

5. www.saturdayeveningpost.com › 2014 › 05The Leopold and Loeb Murder Trial, 90 years later

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   May 23, 2014 · So it is interesting that this week marks the 90th anniversary of a horrific crime and a defense that, remarkably, spared the lives of two killers. If any criminals were worthy candidates for execution, they would have been Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. In 1924, they pled guilty in a Chicago courtroom for a crime with a shocking motive.

6. www.chicagotribune.com › 2016/03/31 › the-originalThe original ‘affluenza’ case: Leopold and Loeb

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   Mar 31, 2016 · Richard Loeb, 18, left, and Nathan Leopold Jr., 19, right, look at each other accusingly after they gave separate confessions to the killing of Robert "Bobby" Franks on May 21, 1924, in Chicago.

7. www.theparisreview.org › blog › 2018/07/26Reopening the Case Files of Leopold and Loeb

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   Jul 26, 2018 · July 26, 2018. Arts & Culture. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. It wasn’t America’s worst murder, even at the time. The June 1912 massacre of six members of the Moore family and their two houseguests, all of them bludgeoned to death as they slept in Villisca, Iowa, was arguably worse. That case was never solved, though a recent book, The ...

8. crimereads.com › leopold-and-loeb-100-years-afterLeopold and Loeb, 100 Years After ‹ CrimeReads

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   Apr 11, 2024 · With the body in the car, Leopold and Loeb stopped to pick up two hotdogs and two bottles of root beer. After nightfall, the pair stripped off the boy’s clothes, poured acid on his face and genitals in an effort to conceal his identity, and left Bobby Franks’ body hidden in a remote spot Leopold knew of from bird-watching trips.