Leopold and Loeb
Subtitle: THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY
Edition: Illini Books Ed edition
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: April 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780252068294
Subjects: True Crime; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Illinois; Murder; Social Science; True Crime / Espionage; American English; Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal,; Murder - General; History / United States / 20th Century; Biography; Criminology; 1904 or 5-1971; 1905 or 6-1936; Case studies; Chicago; Loeb, Richard A.,; Murderers
First sentence: Autumn had captured the land by the second weekend of November in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Description: "Among the criminal celebrities of Prohibition-era Chicago, not even Al Capone was more notorious than two well-educated and highly intelligent Jewish boys from wealthy South Side families. In a meticulously planned murder scheme disguised as a kidnapping, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb chose fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks at random as their victim, abandoning his crumpled body in a culvert before his parents had a chance to respond to the ransom demand.".

"Revealing secret testimony and raising questions that have gone unanswered for decades, Hal Higdon separates fact from myth as he unravels the crime, the investigation, and the trial in which Leopold and Loeb were defended by the era's most famous attorney, Clarence Darrow. Higdon's razor sharp account of their chilling act, their celebrity, and their ultimate emergence as folk heroes resonates unnervingly in our own violent time."--BOOK JACKET.