Leopold and Loeb: The Crime of the Centuryby Hal Higdon
β Scribed by Review by: David M. Wrobel
- Book ID
- 124288146
- Publisher
- Michigan Historical Review
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 266 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0890-1686
- DOI
- 10.2307/20164913
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It was a crime that shocked the nation: the brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child by two wealthy college students who killed solely for the thrill of the experience. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were intellectuals--too smart, they believed, for the police to catch them. When they were appre
### From Publishers Weekly In 1924, Nathan Leopold, 19, and Richard Loeb, 18, both intellectually precocious scions of wealthy Jewish Chicago families, kidnapped and brutally murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in an attempt to commit the perfect crime. Historian Baatz, of the John Jay College of Cri