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	Leopold and Loeb
		Neither Loeb, who was 18 and already a graduate of the University of Michigan, nor Leopold, who at 19 had just graduated from the University of Chicago and was on his way to Harvard Law School, fit any ordinary profile of the criminal type.
		But after their families hired Clarence Darrow, who mounted a defense to save Leopold and Loeb from the death sentence by using extensive testimony from prominent psychiatrists, the enormous publicity focused on the case introduced Americans to new ways of understanding crime which emphasized the troubled psyches and warped childhoods of the defendants.
		Leopold was paroled in 1958 after writing a set of memoirs devoted to his good works in prison.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/737.html (354 words)

	LEOPOLD & LOEB: CHICAGO'S THRILL KILLERS
		Richard Loeb was the son of the Vice President of Sears and Roebuck and while he was as wealthy as his friend, Loeb was merely a clever young man and far from brilliant.
		Leopold and Loeb were sent to the state prison in Joliet and officials there were ridiculed by the public and the press for the special treatment they received.
		Leopold lived on in prison for many years and was said to have made many adjustments to his character and some would even say had rehabilitated completely.
	www.prairieghosts.com /leopold.html (1665 words)

	Leopold and Loeb Summary
		Leopold, who was 19 at the time of the murder, and Loeb, 18, believed themselves to be Nietzschean supermen who could commit a "perfect crime" (in this case a kidnapping and murder) without fear of being apprehended.
		Leopold and Loeb had both admitted to the press that they were lovers, and this increased the lurid (for that time period) aspects of the crime considerably.
		Leopold and Loeb's names were mentioned in an episode of the drama/comedy Gilmore Girls during a dream sequence in which Lorelai Gilmore, pregnant with twins, tells her "dream husband" that she has decided to name their unborn children "Leopold and Loeb".
	www.bookrags.com /Leopold_and_Loeb (2303 words)

	The Biography Channel - Leopold And Loeb Biography
		But Leopold and Loeb were an excellent match psychologically: the brilliant, but socially inept, Leopold was enthralled by the handsome and vivacious Loeb; and Loeb found an excellent alter ego for his fantasy world in which he was supreme.
		Loeb remained at the University of Michigan, where he barely graduated, in June 1923: his only distinction being that he was the youngest graduate in the University's history.
		Loeb continued to embroil Leopold in a number of different criminal pursuits, using the promise of sexual favours as an enticement, and became increasingly obsessed with the development and commission of âthe perfect crimeâ.
	www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_story/1109:1082/2/Leopold_And_Loeb.htm (550 words)

	Leopold and Loeb: The U of C's very own ambiguously gay sociopaths
		Leopold would later say that his true motive for all the crimes he committed, including the murder of Bobby Franks, was simply to please Loeb, who for Leopold epitomized the idea of the superman.
		The evidence against Leopold and Loeb was insurmountable, obviously—not only had they confessed, but they had led investigators to the river where they had dumped the typewriter, and the field where they had buried Bobby Franks’ clothing, and on and on—so they really only had two options as far as plea bargains.
		Public opinion against Leopold and Loeb was pretty negative, and the chances of a jury finding them not guilty for any reason were pretty slim; furthermore, he knew it would be more difficult for a judge to sentence the two to death when he was carrying the entire burden on his own shoulders.
	maroon.uchicago.edu /o-issue/2003/leopold_and_loeb_the_u_of_cs_very_own_ambiguously_gay_sociopaths.php (4098 words)

	Leopold and Loeb's Perfect Crime by Denise Noe
		Leopold was going to Europe on a vacation trip, and from there to Harvard." They wanted to do something dramatic to seal themselves together and decided they would commit the "perfect crime" as the final proof of their intellectual and moral superiority.
		Loeb agreed to pose for Crowe in the rental car that was used but only if he could sit in the driver's seat that he claimed he had been when the killing occurred.
		Leopold and Loeb (Kalin used the murderers' real names) are shown with modern cell phones while other characters use phones appropriate to the time period suggesting that this pair is "tuned in" to a future in which violence lacks traditional motivations.
	crimemagazine.com /04/leopoldloeb,0229.htm (11441 words)

	Leopold and Loeb's Perfect Crime by Denise Noe
		Leopold was going to Europe on a vacation trip, and from there to Harvard." They wanted to do something dramatic to seal themselves together and decided they would commit the "perfect crime" as the final proof of their intellectual and moral superiority.
		Loeb agreed to pose for Crowe in the rental car that was used but only if he could sit in the driver's seat that he claimed he had been when the killing occurred.
		Leopold and Loeb (Kalin used the murderers' real names) are shown with modern cell phones while other characters use phones appropriate to the time period suggesting that this pair is "tuned in" to a future in which violence lacks traditional motivations.
	www.crimemagazine.com /04/leopoldloeb,0229.htm (11441 words)

	dictionary - Leopold and Loeb
		Leopold, who was 19 at the time of the murder and Loeb, 18, believed themselves to be relative supermen who could commit a "perfect crime", in this case a kidnapping and murder without fear of being apprehended.
		Both of Leopold and Loeb's families were quite well-off, and each dapper young student at the University of Chicago surely had had a fine future ahead of him; there had been no need to turn to crime.
		The trial proved to be a media spectacle and was one of the cases to be dubbed "The Crime of the Century." Loeb's family hired 67-year-old Clarence Darrow, who had fought against capital punishment for years, to defend the boys against the capital charges of murder and kidnapping.
	www.medicalrace.com /dictionary/Leopold_and_Loeb (921 words)

	American Rhetoric: Clarence Darrow -- "A Plea for Mercy at the Trial of Leopold and Loeb"
		But as compared with the families of Leopold and Loeb, the Franks are to be envied-and everyone knows it.
		Here it Leopold’s father-and this boy was the pride of his life.
		He watched him, he cared for him, he worked for him; the boy was brilliant and accomplished, he educated him, and he thought that fame and position awaited him, as it should have awaited.
	www.americanrhetoric.com /speeches/cdarrowpleaformercy.htm (1836 words)

	JURIST - The Trial of Leopold and Loeb
		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.
		Elmer Gertz's hero, Clarence Darrow, defended Leopold and Loeb in 1924 after the two brilliant teenagers--both from prominent Chicago families--confessed to the thrill killing of young Bobby Franks.
		In 1936, Loeb was slashed and killed with a razor in a showerroom fight with James Day, another inmate.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /trials5.htm (2841 words)

	JS Online: Horror of Leopold and Loeb murder case comes to stage
		Loeb graduated from high school at 14 and entered the academically challenging University of Chicago before transferring to the University of Michigan.
		They would camouflage the abduction as a kidnapping for ransom, but Leopold and Loeb quickly killed the younger boy and dumped the body in a culvert in a marshy area close to a nearby lake.
		Loeb was slashed to death by another inmate in 1936.
	www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=180495&format=print (1052 words)

	Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story
		Leopold and Loeb, two wealthy and brilliant Chicago youths, had already confessed separately that on May 21, 1924 they had lured 14-year-old Bobby Franks into a rented car, bludgeoned him to death, stripped his body, poured hydrochloric acid over it and stuffed into a concrete drainage culvert.
		As for Loeb, he never got to write his autobiography; on January 28, 1936 he was slashed to death in the shower by his razor-wielding cellmate, James Day.
		During World War II Leopold was one of a small group of prisoners who volunteered to be infected with malaria in a study to find ways of immunizing people against the disease.
	www.nytheatre-wire.com /ps0506.htm (734 words)

	Jazz Age Chicago--1924 Leopold and Loeb Case
		Richard Loeb's confession, picturing Nathan Leopold, Jr., as the author of their kidnaping plot and the actual slayer of little Robert Franks, was made public to-day by State's Attorney Crowe.
		The Loeb confession agrees in most details with that of Leopold, which was made public yesterday, but the story bears the imprint of a different personality.
		Loeb pointed out a week ago to-day where he dropped it from the stone bridge and policemen with grappling hooks and a diver kept after it.
	chicago.urban-history.org /evt/evt02/evt0207.shtml (922 words)

	Leopold and Loeb Trial Home Page
		Few trial transcripts are as likely to bring tears to the eyes as that of the 1924 murder trial of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold.
		Decades after Clarence Darrow delivered his twelve-hour long plea to save his young clients' lives, his moving summation stands as the most eloquent attack on the death penalty ever delivered in an American courtroom.
		Mixing poetry and prose, science and emotion, a world-weary cynicism and a dedication to his cause, hatred of bloodlust and love of man, Darrow takes his audience on an oratorical ride that would be unimaginable in a criminal trial today....
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/leoploeb/leopold.htm (99 words)

	Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb, Crime of the 20th century - Crime Library - The Crime library
		Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb, Crime of the 20th century - Crime Library - The Crime library
		Perhaps he was playing tennis at the Loebs, Jack suggested.
		But when his father looked over at the Loeb's tennis courts, Bobby was nowhere to be seen.
	www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/famous/loeb/index_1.html (829 words)

	Most Famous Murder Case You've Never Heard Of by Matt Fuerst of JackassCritics.com
		In 1924, Loeb and Leopold were pair of brilliant young men in Chicago, Illinois.
		Richard Loeb was the son of a retired Vice President of Sears.
		His friend, and homosexual partner, Nathan Leopold was a student at the University of Chicago and planned on attending Harvard Law School to complete his training to become a lawyer.
	www.jackasscritics.com /fuersty.php?previous=17 (840 words)

	Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story
		While tastefully told, it is Leopold’s story that attempts to explain why he and Loeb killed 12 year old Bobby Franks in 1924 simply for the thrill of it.
		Loeb was a psychopathic, dominatingly charismatic personality whose boredom led to his insatiable appetite for wilder thrills.
		Loeb is a pure sociopath and Leopold is the emotionally dependant whose guilt and sense of ethics is overwhelmed by his sexual lust for Richard Loeb.
	www.chicagocritic.com /html/thrill_me__the_leopold___loeb_.html (445 words)

	Show - Never The Sinner: The Leopold & Loeb Story (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It seems as though a "Trial of the Century" happens along every decade, but the 1924 case against Leopold and Loeb in Chicago has fascinated writers and filmmakers for seventy-five years - perhaps because it has all the ingredients that make up riveting drama - seduction, deception, and murder.
		Leopold and Loeb kidnapped and killed a boy from their affluent Chicago neighborhood.
		The victim, fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks, was a cousin of Richard Loeb's, but it could have been almost anyone as the two just wanted to experience the thrill of murder.
	www.carpentersquare.com /shows/show_never_the_sinner.htm (598 words)

	American Experience \| Monkey Trial \| People & Events
		Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were teenagers living in a wealthy Chicago suburb when they were arrested for murder.
		Loeb had recently graduated, at 17 years old, from the University of Michigan, and planned to begin law school in the fall.
		Inspired by this odd mix of nihilistic philosophy, detective fiction, and misguided love, Leopold and Loeb hatched a plan to commit the "perfect crime." It was not so much the idea of murder that attracted them, but the idea of getting away with murder.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/peopleevents/e_leopoldloeb.html (610 words)

	Leopold and Loeb
		Leopold and Loeb picked up fourteen year old Robert Franks while he was walking home from school.
		Loeb was murdered by a fellow prisoner in Illinois's Joliet Prison in January, 1936.
		Leopold had not the slightest instinct toward what we are pleased to call crime.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAleopold.htm (560 words)

	Amazon.com: Leopold and Loeb: THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY: Books: Hal Higdon (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At the core, of course, are Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.
		Leopold and Loeb were not masochists secretly wishing to be caught and punished.
		Supposedly Loeb had an IQ of 160 and Leopold one of 210; Leopold was fluent in five or ten or fifteen languages, including Sanskrit and Hawaiian.
	www.amazon.com /Leopold-Loeb-CENTURY-Hal-Higdon/dp/0252068297 (2476 words)

	Digital History
		At age 19, Leopold was already a University of Chicago graduate and spoke 14 languages.
		In 1936, Loeb was killed with a razor in a fight with another inmate who was later acquitted of the murder.
		Nathan Leopold managed to keep intellectually active in prison; he taught in the prison school, mastered 27 foreign languages, worked as an x-ray technician in the prison hospital, reorganized the prison library, and designed a new system of prison education.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /database/article_display.cfm?HHID=449 (483 words)

	LawBuzz - Famous Trials, Leopold & Loeb - The Brutal Facts Chapter 4
		This map shows the general direction Leopold and Loeb took while the crime was underway.
		It was how he was killed - and what Leopold and Loeb did to him after he was dead.
		Before dumping Bobby's body into a culvert, Leopold and Loeb poured hydrochloric acid on Bobby's face and body so he would not be recognized.
	www.lawbuzz.com /famous_trials/leopold/brutal_facts.htm (283 words)

	History Channel Exhibits: History on Trial: You Be the Judge!
		Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold were two brilliant teenagers from Chicago with promising futures.
		Leopold and Loeb, who, it was rumored, also had a sexual relationship, were caught almost immediately by police, thanks to a series of their own mistakes.
		During his incarceration, he had taught in the prison school, learned twenty-seven languages, worked in the prison hospital as an x-ray technician, reorganized the prison library, volunteered to be a test case for an experimental malaria vaccine, and helped the prison design a new system of education for its prisoners.
	www.historychannel.com /exhibits/trial/leopold.html (408 words)

	DOUGLASS : Clarence Darrow, "Mercy for Leopold and Loeb," August 1924 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But as compared with the families of Leopold and Loeb, the Franks are to be envied — and everyone knows it.
		Here is Leopold's father — and this boy was the pride of his life.
		He watched him, he cared for him, he worked for him; the boy was brilliant and accomplished, he educated him, and he thought that fame and position awaited him, as it should have awaited.
	douglassarchives.org /darr_b17.htm (1888 words)

	Leopold and Loeb Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Leopold and Loeb were soon caught, confessed, and acclaimed attorney Clarence Darrow was brought in to save them from the gallows.
		Loeb died in prison about 10 years later, while Leopold was eventually paroled and lived the last decade of his life in Puerto Rico.
		We will examine the case not only through an investigation of philosophical texts, but we will read two novels: "Compulsion", which is a novelized version of the Leopold and Loeb story, and Jack London's "The Sea Wolf" which allegedly inspired Leopold and Loeb to their crime.
	www.otterbein.edu /home/fac/ANDPMLLS/LL/LLHomepage.html (612 words)

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