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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...
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May 2, 2023 · Nathan Leopold, left, convicted in the notorious murder of Bobby Franks in Chicago in 1924, views one of the taxidermy birds he donated to the Elgin Public Museum in 1967. The Elgin Public...
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Leopold diagram. "An intellectual machine going without balance" is how Clarence Darrow described Nathan Leopold in his trial summation. Leopold was a boy of supernormal intelligence, busy every minute of his life, who nonetheless was "void of the healthy instincts of practical life."
by Greg King and Penny Wilson. A grim, glowering fortress loomed in the darkness, bathed in the glow of arc lights shadowing its battlements and towers. This was the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet, thirtyish miles south of Chicago. Convicted killers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb first saw it on the night of September 11, 1924.
Mar 31, 2016 · PUBLISHED: March 31, 2016 at 12:00 p.m. | UPDATED: May 26, 2022 at 4:24 p.m. On a sizzling August day in 1924, a riot took place outside a Chicago courtroom as spectators fought for a chance to see...
Sep 15, 2022 · The ransom letter and envelope sent to the family of Bobby Franks, who was kidnapped and murdered by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb in Chicago, Ill., 1924. From the Chicago Daily News Collection.
May 21, 2015 · It happened right here in Chicago, in a home near the one owned by the Obama's and like any compelling crime story, there's a twist. CBS 2's Brad Edwards reports 91 years ago, a little boy named ...