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	Bobby Franks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Emanuel "Bobby" Franks (September 19, 1909 – May 21, 1924) was the fourteen-year-old murder victim of the notorious teenaged thrill killers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.
		Franks was the son of Chicago millionaire Jacob Franks and a neighbor and distant relative of Richard Loeb.
		Franks, whose family lived across the street from the Loeb family mansion, was chosen as if at random on the day of the murder.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bobby_Franks (222 words)

	Leopold and Loeb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Their crime was notable in being largely motivated by an apparent need to prove the duo's belief that their high intellects made them capable of committing a perfect crime, and also for its role in the history of American thought on capital punishment.
		After concealing the body in a culvert under a railroad track outside of Chicago—the body was burned with acid to make identification more difficult—they did their best to make it seem that a kidnapping for ransom had taken place; the Franks family had enough money that a request for $10,000 in ransom was plausible.
		Bobby Franks' parents, while ethnically Jewish, were converts to Christian Science.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Loeb (1379 words)

	Robert Franks, victim of Leopold & Loeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Bobby Franks was age 14 when he was picked up and murdered while on his way home from the Harvard School in Chicago's fashionable Hyde Park district.
		Franks was a brilliant student at the school.
		Franks was also a distant cousin of Loeb.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/leoploeb/LEO_FRAN.HTM (115 words)

	Jazz Age Chicago -- The Leopold and Loeb Case
		Their Bobby was in the hands of a strange kidnaper-- a person of unmistakable education-- who called himself George Johnson.
		And in the excitement Jacob Franks forgot where the kidnaper had directed him to go, so the likeliest of the scanty clues in the case was lost.
		It was reported that Bobby Franks had been seen getting into a gray Winton car and every owner of an automobile of that make and color found himself the object of his neighbor's suspicions.
	chicago.urban-history.org /scrapbks/leo_loeb/ll_txt11.htm (1263 words)

	Bizarre Magazine
		On 21 May 1924, Bobby Franks, a 14-year-old from Harvard school, was walking home through Chicago's fashionable Hyde Park district when a Winton car pulled up and offered him a lift.
		If Jacob Franks had remembered the address of the drug store he would have found instructions there to board a train that was leaving from a nearby station.
		Floral tributes flooded Bobby Franks' funeral and The Chicago Times reported that, in the weeks immediately after the murder, well over 100 letters of extortion were sent to wealthy Chicago businessmen.
	www.bizarremag.com /true_crime.php?id=446 (2787 words)

	Leopold and Loeb: The U of C's very own ambiguously gay sociopaths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Bobby Franks was, to borrow a phrase from the Land of Crime Clichés, simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
		While Jacob Franks, Bobby’s father, was out looking for his son, Bobby’s mother, Flora, received a phone call from a mysterious “George Johnson.” He explained that her son had been kidnapped, was safe, and further information would follow the next day.
		Franks had already acquired the $10,000 from the bank, and a cab was waiting for him outside his door, when his brother-in-law called.
	maroon.uchicago.edu /o-issue/2003/leopold_and_loeb_the_u_of_cs_very_own_ambiguously_gay_sociopaths.php (4098 words)

	The Crime of the Century. The Murder of Robert Franks by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb
		Bobby often played tennis on the Loeb's court, and had even played with Richard on occasion.The Franks lived diagonally across from the Loebs on Ellis Ave.
		Call Franks at the drugstore only minutes before the train is about to leave, and direct him to immediately board and go to the telegraph blank box in the last car.
		Should Franks have notified the police, should the police have even boarded the train with Franks, they would all be carried away, and not know where the kidnapers were.
	www.leopoldandloeb.com /thecrime.html (2222 words)

	Leopold and Loeb's Perfect Crime by Denise Noe
		Bobby's parents were Flora Franks, a homemaker, and Jacob Franks, who had made his fortune as a pawnbroker.
		After stuffing Bobby's body in the culvert, Leopold and Loeb drove back home, stopping along the way for Leopold to make two calls, one to his father to say he would be delayed and the other to Jacob Franks to tell him his son had been kidnapped.
		In the immediate aftermath of the tragedy, many in her family were concerned for her mental health as she had gone into a state of denial insisting in the face of proof to the contrary that her son was alive and the kidnappers would eventually return him.
	crimemagazine.com /04/leopoldloeb,0229.htm (11431 words)

	LEOPOLD & LOEB: CHICAGO'S THRILL KILLERS
		He was the son of the millionaire Jacob Franks, and a distant cousin of Loeb.
		Franks that he could soon expect a ransom demand for the return of his son.
		The residence of Nathan Leopold at 4754 South Greenwood Avenue was destroyed and the property was subdivided.
	www.prairieghosts.com /leopold.html (1665 words)

	The trial
		Franks received a phone call from Leopold, who identified himself as "George Johnson." Leopold told Franks that her boy had been kidnapped, but was unharmed, and that she should expect a ransom note soon.
		The body of Bobby Franks had been identified; a laborer happened to see a flash of what turned out to be a foot through the the shrubbery covering the open culvert where the body had been placed.
		Franks, after getting the letter demanding ransom, was instructed to go to a certain drug store in the East 63rd street.
	judicial-inc.biz /pyschos/Trial.htm (4120 words)

	Touchstone Archives: Murder & the Modern Conscience
		They barely knew Bobby Franks and chose him as their victim only because he happened along at the right moment.
		Bobby’s father Jacob issued a public statement blaming Loeb and Leopold’s atheism for their action.
		If ever a crime opened a window into the unadulterated mystery of evil, it was the murder of Bobby Franks, and it is not surprising that most people averted their gaze.
	www.touchstonemag.com /archives/article.php?id=10-03-022-f (2906 words)

	Chicago South Side Travel Attractions Trips Maps Tours Guide Murders Cemeteries Posters Ghosts Hefner Capone
		Bobby's prize possession, a baseball with Babe Ruth's autograph was still on the shelf in a closet when Bobby was buried on Sunday, May 25, 1924.
		Richard Loeb stood on the sidewalk in front and watched as Bobby's casket was carried from the house to the hearse.
		In 1928, Jacob Franks died of a heart attack at age 67, he was worth $2 million at the time of his death.
	www.yourhometown.org /page21.html (8793 words)

	Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community - What if...
		Bobby Franks' body would be studied for any clues.
		Bobby Franks had died of suffocation, perhaps when his kidnapper held his hand over the boy's mouth or when he had shoved something down the boy's throat.
		The key difference is that Bobby Franks was outside of his house to begin with and was found outside.
	www.websleuths.com /forums/showthread.php?t=34970 (1903 words)

	The Lawless Decade By Paul Sann
		Bobby was fine and was about to be returned for $10,000--$2,000 in "old twenties" and $8,000 in "old fifties." But later, tortured by anxiety, Franks sent his brother-in-law to the Hegewisch Morgue and heard the horrible truth.
		There was no need to prove anything against the twisted killers of Bobby Franks, but the State of Illinois put each and every gruesome fact into the record in endless array as the newspapers screamed the eye-for-an-eye theme.
		But when you are pitying the father and the mother of poor Bobby Franks, what about the fathers and mothers of all the boys and all the girls who tread a dangerous maze in darkness from birth to death?
	www.lawlessdecade.net /new1924.html (1729 words)

	LawBuzz - Famous Trials, Leopold & Loeb - Whoops!! Chapter 7
		Franks to show up with the ransom money, the murderers were surprised when he didn't come.
		At the time of Bobby's funeral, no one knew that the teenager across the street had killed his neighbor.
		By the time Bobby Franks' family had his remains interred at the Rose Hill Cemetery in Chicago, Richard Loeb still thought he was smarter than everyone else around him.
	www.lawbuzz.com /famous_trials/leopold/whoops.htm (263 words)

	Bob Franks: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As a member of the House Budget Committee, Bob Franks played a leadership role in producing the first balanced budget in 30 years, in stopping the raid on the Social Security Trust Fund, delivering the first tax relief to families in 18 years and in bringing fiscal discipline to Washington.
		Franks served as Republican State Chairman from 1988 to 1989 and again from 1990 to 1992.
		Franks was a key advisor to Governor Tom Kean in his 1981 gubernatorial campaign.
	www.zoominfo.com /people/franks_bob_513556.aspx (981 words)

	LawBuzz - Famous Trials, Leopold & Loeb - Why Did They Do It? Chapter 5
		The day Leopold and Loeb killed Bobby Franks was not the first day they had engaged in crime, however.
		Franks would certainly cooperate - and would certainly keep the police out of it - as Leopold, disguised as "George Johnson," required when he made the "kidnapper's phone call" to the Franks.
		But Bobby was not alive, and Leopold and Loeb were about to learn that their "perfect crime" was not so perfect.
	www.lawbuzz.com /famous_trials/leopold/do_it.htm (259 words)

	Famous Trials
		Loeb asked Franks to come over to the car, asked him to get in the car to discuss a tennis racquet, then killed him with a chisel as the two drove off.
		Some have suggested that Franks was sexually molested, then killed later.) Leopold and Loeb drove their rented car to a marshland near the Indiana line, where they stripped Franks naked, poured hydrochloric acid over his body to make identification more difficult, then stuffed the body in a concrete drainage culvert.
		The next morning the Franks family received a special delivery letter asking that they immediately secure $10,000 in old, unmarked bills and telling them to expect further instructions that afternoon.
	www.legalserviceindia.com /historicalcases/trial1.htm (7426 words)

	The Daily Advertiser - www.theadvertiser.com - Lafayette, LA
		She is a graduate of Acadiana High School and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette with a degree in Early Childhood Education.
		The groom is the son of Mark and Karen Franks of Shreveport.
		Bridesmaids were Kelly Stirling of Lafayette; Deanna Nomey of Breaux Bridge; Danielle Boudreaux, cousin of the bride, of Lafayette; and Gabrielle Franks, sister of the groom, of Shreveport.
	www.theadvertiser.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006605280321 (248 words)

	JS Online:Horror of Leopold and Loeb murder case comes to stage
		The 1924 abduction and slaying of 14-year-old Bobby Franks as he walked home from school in an affluent Windy City neighborhood is still reverberating through our culture.
		We assume that murder is a crime committed out of passion or greed, but Franks' killing was motivated by boredom and an arrogant belief by a couple of kids that they were too smart to get caught.
		Franks' body was soon found in an area that Leopold was known to visit for bird watching.
	www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=180495 (1150 words)

	kobits063001
		He started Franks Trucking and worked for the Kentucky Highway Department, and was superintendent of the Grant County Highway Department.
		Franks' ''hobbies'' included buying and selling land, used farm machinery and anything else he could get his hands on.
		Franks never backed down from political discussions, especially when it concerned his beloved Democratic Party.
	www.kypost.com /2001/jun/30/kobits063001.html (1461 words)

	JURIST - The Trial of Leopold and Loeb
		Gertz's notoriety began, however, in the 1950s with his representation of Nathan Leopold, who--along with Richard Loeb--had killed 14-year-old Bobby Franks on his way home from school on May 21,1924.
		Later, when Gertz visited his famous client in Leopold's apartment in Puerto Rico he was disconcerted to see that a photograph of himself was prominently displayed next to one of Leopold's former lover and partner in crime, Richard Loeb.
		Leopold ("George Johnson") called Jacob Franks, Bobby's father, at three o'clock to tell him a taxi cab was about to arrive at his home and that he should take it to a specified drugstore in South Chicago.
	www.jurist.law.pitt.edu /trials5.htm (2841 words)

	Homicide in Chicago :: 1924: Leopold & Loeb (cont)
		The circumstances of the crime involved the murder of a young boy, Bobby Franks, by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, young men from wealthy Jewish families who said they killed their fourteen year old victim, whom they didn’t know, because they wanted to commit the perfect, motiveless crime (Crimes of the Century p.13-47).
		Although their plans to conceal their identities and collect a large ransom were elaborate and intricate, Leopold and Loeb were caught almost immediately because Nathan Leopold dropped a pair of glasses near to where the body of Bobby Franks had been left.
		Their separate confessions, available here, (Leopold's and Loeb's) are consistent in their description of the details of the crime, except that each claimed the other actually committed the blows which killed Bobby Franks.
	homicide.northwestern.edu /crimes/leopold1 (1202 words)

	Insight-Story4-
		Former athletes men's basketball point guard Nick Matarazzo, softball All-American Linda Giarrusso, offensive lineman Bobby Franks and two-time regional All-American Gus Moramarco are the newest inductees into the Montclair State University Athletic Hall of Fame at a ceremony Nov. 13 at the Valley Regency in Clifton.
		During Franks' time with Montclair State, the Indians/Red Hawks posted a 32-9-1 mark and captured the New Jersey Athletic Conference championship in 1989, advancing to the Quarterfinals of the NCAA Division III playoffs.
		He played in 40 of a possible 42 games and served as the Montclair State team captain in 1990, the year in which he was named the recipient of the football team's Bill Diougardi Award.
	www.montclair.edu /pages/insight/insight11-17-03/story4.html (920 words)

	Smoky Mountain News \| Arts + Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1924, two 19-year-old University of Chicago students were arrested for the murder of Bobby Franks, a 14-year-old boy from a nearby neighborhood.
		Famed attorney Clarence Darrow was employed to defend the two, whose guilt was sealed by the discovery of Loeb’s eyeglasses by Franks’ body.
		Darrow’s impassioned summation to the jury on the inhumanity of the death penalty saved the two from execution and was the first of its kind.
	www.smokymountainnews.com /issues/05_03/05_28_03/art_thriller_rope.html (335 words)

	T.F. Japandalism 2003
		The morning of Thursday, October 9th The Forgotten and our fifth member Bobby Frank met at the United terminal in SFO airport.
		This was the first night for Bobby to go to work since it was the first night with merch.
		The three of us meet at the entrance where Bobby's shoes are and several men all come out to see what's up with us.
	www.theforgotten.net /tdjapan.html (4857 words)

	Leopold and Loeb
		The car rounded the corner and Bobby was hit over the head with the chisel.
		Bobby was wrapped in a rug and shoved onto the back floor.
		Once it was dark enough, they proceeded to the place they intended to dispose of the body- a culvert at Wolf Lake, where Leopold had often gone birding.
	judicial-inc.biz /Leopold_Loeb.htm (2188 words)

	Montclair State University, USA - Red Hawk Athletics - Hall of Fame
		A four-year letter-winner and three-year starter for Montclair State, Franks was one of the best lineman the program has produced.
		During Franks’ time with MSU, the Indians/Red Hawks posted a 32-9-1 mark and captured the New Jersey Athletic Conference championship in 1989, advancing to the Quarterfinals of the NCAA Division III Playoffs.
		A four-year letterwinner, Giarrusso was right in the middle of Montclair State’s rise to national prominence in the mid-late 1980’s She appeared in 159 games in her brilliant career and collected 152 hits while batting a impressive.359 in her four years.
	www.montclair.edu /Pages/athletics/2003halloffameinduction.html (908 words)

	Bobby Caldwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Bobby is pleased to be a part of this special tribute to the legendary Ray...
		Bobby's show is at 3:00 pm Joyce Cooling will also appear at this show.
		Tracing a twenty-five year history from acclaimed soul stylist to in-demand pop and RandB songwriter, Bobby Caldwell is truly one of the most revered vocalists and songwriters in contemporary music today.
	www.bobbycaldwell.com (129 words)

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