Ep.34 – The Perfect Crime: Leopold and Loeb
Why did two boys think they had such superior intellect that they could commit an unsolvable crime?
2 years ago
It’s the 1923 and Chicago is shocked by the brutal murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks. The culprits ended up being 18-year olds Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, who thought they had committed the perfect crime. Join Clay as he shares the crime of the century.
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Source:
- Baatz, Simon “For the thrill of it : Leopold, Loeb, and the murder that shocked Chicago” New York Harper, 2008
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