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  Leopold and Loeb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He spoke fifteen languages and was an expert ornithologist, while Loeb was the youngest graduate in the history of the University of Michigan.
The trial proved to be a media spectacle; it was one of the first cases in the USA to be dubbed the "Trial 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.
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".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb   (1379 words)

  
 Bobby Franks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Franks was the son of Chicago millionaire Jacob Franks and a neighbor and distant relative of Richard Loeb.
Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, defended by famed attorney Clarence Darrow, received life sentences for the murder and 99 years for the kidnapping following a trial which was much-publicized and declared by the press as the "trial of the century".
Richard Loeb was murdered by a fellow prison inmate in 1936.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bobby_Franks   (222 words)

  
 Richard Loeb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Loeb was the son of a wealthy vice president of Sears Roebuck Company.
Loeb was the instigator of the Franks murder.
Loeb was rushed to the prison hospital for blood transfusions.
www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/leoploeb/LEO_LOEB.HTM   (474 words)

  
 A landmark in the fight against capital punishment in the US Lessons of the 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Richard Loeb’s father was a retired vice president of Sears and Roebuck and a multimillionaire.
Loeb, 18, was the youngest to graduate from the University of Michigan.
Loeb is suffering from a disordered personality; the nature of this disorder is primarily in a profound pathological discord between his intellectual and emotional life.
www.wsws.org /articles/2001/sep2001/loeb-s08.shtml   (3550 words)

  
 JURIST - The Trial of Leopold and Loeb
Loeb's nineteen-year old partner in crime, Nathan Leopold, was interested in ornithology, philosophy, and especially, Richard Loeb.
Leopold later wrote that "Loeb's friendship was necessary to me-- terribly necessary" and that his motive, "to the extent that I had one, was to please Dick." For Loeb, the crime was more an escape from the ordinary; an interesting intellectual exercise.
Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold were moved to the Joliet penitentiary.
www.jurist.law.pitt.edu /trials5.htm   (2841 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.
In 1936 Richard Loeb was killed in a prison fight with another inmate.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/peopleevents/e_leopoldloeb.html   (610 words)

  
 Leopold and Loeb leopoldandloeb.com Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb confess to Murdering Neighbor for Kicks! Chicago ...
Albert and Anna Loeb had an impressive mansion in the Kenwood section on the South Side of Chicago, two blocks away from the Leopold home, as well as a summer estate in Charlevoix, Michigan.
Richard was eleven when he learned the difference between boys and girls- from the family chauffeur.
Richard did have one friend with whom he took part in several petty delinquencies; a boy named Jack Mengal that he met at the age of five.
www.leopoldandloeb.com /loeb.html   (1368 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.
Loeb was observed to shudder and Leopold got so hysterical that he had to be taken out of the courtroom.
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.
www.prairieghosts.com /leopold.html   (1665 words)

  
 Richard Loeb story - The Krempel Brain Injury Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Earlier this year, Loeb and his family — wife Pam and children Samantha and Richard II — were the recipients of a grant from the foundation, a grant that allowed them to pay the rent, buy groceries and have their taxes done.
In little time the Loebs had raised hundreds of dollars and, thanks to a specially equipped bicycle insurance gave him when he failed the test to renew his driver’s license, Richard was ready.
The Loebs heard about the foundation from Healthsouth, the New Hampshire rehabilitation facility where Richard is currently an active outpatient receiving physical and occupational therapy once a week.
www.krempelsfoundation.org /richardloeb.shtml   (487 words)

  
 Leopold and Loeb
The other was Richard Loeb, the seventeen year old son of a wealthy vice-president of the Sears and Roebuck company.
The judge was convinced by Darrow's arguments and Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were sentenced to life imprisonment and were therefore saved from the electric chair.
Loeb was murdered by a fellow prisoner in Illinois's Joliet Prison in January, 1936.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAleopold.htm   (560 words)

  
 Leopold  and Loeb
Leopold and Loeb had yearly allowances of the 2004 equivalent of $ 25,000 They were raised by governess, chauffeurs, butlers, etc. They went to Harvard preparatory.
They poured acid on the genitals because Richard was under the impression that a person could be identified by his genitals, believing his brother Tommy had a peculiarly shaped penis.
Loeb wanted to quit, to return the car and lay low, sure that the game was over.
judicial-inc.biz /Leopold_Loeb.htm   (2188 words)

  
 David's Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
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Leopold and Loeb were University of Chicago students, sons of wealthy and prominent Chicago families.
It is worth noting that during the construction of the Hulbert Bowman report, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were housed in different sections of the jail and were still indeed, very angry with each other.
Richard Loeb's father was ill with a heart condition and had gone to their estate in Michigan, accompanied by Loeb's mother.
judicial-inc.biz /Leopold_Loeb_supplement.htm   (2844 words)

  
 LawBuzz - Famous Trials, Leopold & Loeb - Did Justice Intervene? 11   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
But some folks would argue Justice ultimately had her way with Richard Loeb.
Day said Loeb had made sexual advances toward him, so he struck Loeb with a straight razor 58 times.
Richard Loeb was dead and his killer was "not guilty." But what happened to Nathan Leopold?
www.lawbuzz.com /famous_trials/leopold/justice.htm   (158 words)

  
 Jazz Age Chicago -- The Leopold and Loeb Case
Photograph: "Richard Loeb sitting in a chair in a courtroom," 1924 [Library of Congress]
Photograph: "Robert E. Crowe, a prosecutor in the Leopold and Loeb murder case," 1924 [Library of Congress]
Photograph: "Clarence Darrow, a defense attorney for the Leopold and Loeb murder case," 1924 [Library of Congress]
chicago.urban-history.org /scrapbks/leo_loeb/leo_loeb.htm   (877 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Compulsion: Books: Meyer Levin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
And whatever the politics of the psychonanalysis in the novel--certainly whatever your views as to the validity of Levin's conclusions--it's impossible to deny that Levin's psychological interpretations of the case are a marvelously clever and intriguing piece of literature.
Which is another important point; Loeb died twenty years before this book was published, no one knows much about him that does not come from the psyciatriac reports from their trial.
Meyer Levin was a news reporter during the Leopold and Loeb case.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786703199?v=glance   (2345 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Leopold and Loeb: THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY: Books: Hal Higdon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
At the core, of course, are Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.
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.
In 1924 Chicago, millionaire collegians Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb murdered 14-year old Bobby Franks for thrills and to bolster their warped claims of superiority as inspired by philosopher Frederick Nietzsche.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0252068297?v=glance   (2371 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
Loeb had $3,000 in his checking account at the time of the murder and his father gave him money any time he wanted it.
Leopold, with his obsession of the superman, had repeatedly said that Loeb was his idea of the superman.
www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/famous/loeb/sentence_6.html   (1027 words)

  
 How many boards could the Mongols hoard if the Mongol hordes got bored?
In his speech, Darrow claimed that Loeb was not guilty for one of two reasons: either his ancestors were at fault for giving him a criminal seed, or his environment was at fault for corrupting him.
To support his first thesis, Darrow argued that nobody is perfect, and Loeb’s imperfection came in the form of a seed that was contaminated with a potential murder passed down by Loeb’s ancestors.
Since Loeb was obviously adversely affected by his environment, if that is true, he needs to be changed or gotten rid of.
www.msu.edu /user/r/o/rootber2/web/paperfin.htm   (1692 words)

  
 All About Jewish Theatre - The Leopold and Loeb Story Comes to Life Again
It was the celebrated Leopold and Loeb case of 1924.
For Loeb, sexual arousal came only by way of crimes, and that arousal persisted only as stakes were raised ever higher--from theft and arson to murder.
When, for example, Loeb (Kreeger) sings “Roadster,” thus luring the young victim into his car, it is indeed a high, chilling moment.
www.jewish-theatre.com /visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=1396   (587 words)

  
 Homicide in Chicago :: 1924: Leopold and Loeb
For Chicago, the Leopold and Loeb trial was the crime of the century.
A fourteen year old boy, Bobby Franks, was murdered by two young men, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, both from wealthy and socially established Jewish families, simply to commit the perfect crime.
At their trial, the famous Clarence Darrow conducted a defense based upon psychological testimony, and captured the attention of the nation.
homicide.northwestern.edu /crimes/leopold   (234 words)

  
 Jazz Age Chicago--1924 Leopold and Loeb Case
In the late spring of 1924, two well-to-do University of Chicago students, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, kidnapped and murdered a fourteen-year-old neighbor boy, Robert Franks.
They said they had done it for the exhilaration of planning and executing "the perfect crime." Below is a collection of documents related to the Leopold and Loeb case.
Source: "Leopold and Loeb Plead 'Not Guilty,'" photograph, Chicago Daily Tribune, 12 June 1924, 38.
chicago.urban-history.org /evt/evt02/evt0200.shtml   (883 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Films satisfy compulsion with a 1924 'thrill killing'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Compulsion, out on DVD Tuesday, is one of several films inspired by Chicago's famed 1924 kidnapping/"thrill killing" of young Bobby Franks by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.
No one ever mistook Compulsion director Richard Fleischer for a stylist, but Richard Zanuck's producing debut is aided by performances from Bradford Dillman, Dean Stockwell and Orson Welles, who shared Cannes' best-actor award.
You intuit that Compulsion's central duo might be gay, as were Leopold and Loeb.
usatoday.com /life/movies/reviews/2006-05-22-new-on-dvd_x.htm?csp=34   (382 words)

  
 Richard Lillis - Home Page
Hi there I'm Richard Lillis, welcome to my little space on the web.
With this space I would like to share with you some of my adventures.
So far I have Lisa Loeb and will soon be adding a new page about the Stanley Cup.
www.richardlillis.com   (95 words)

  
 Leopold & Loeb Sign-Ups & Resources YVCC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Leopold and Loeb Hearing, Focusing on the Sentencing of Richard Loeb
The next day, Thursday, July 23, before the court convened, Loeb told the reporters he had an important statement to make: "We are united in one great and profound hope for today," Loeb said pompously.
Here is a brief description of the questions I anticipate being asked, or asking (depending on my part) at the Richard Loeb hearing.
members.aol.com /LUFikeJr/ll.html   (310 words)

  
 The Case of Leopold and Loeb quiz -- free game
Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, the sons of wealthy businessmen, commited murder simply for the 'intellectual thrill' of it.
What alias did Leopold and Loeb use in their communication with the Franks family?
In 1936, Richard Loeb was killed by a fellow inmate in the prison shower; what was this inmate's name?
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=78348   (147 words)

  
 Artifacts & Disclosures: University of Michigan alumni and diploma fee cards for Richard Loeb.
Artifacts & Disclosures: University of Michigan alumni and diploma fee cards for Richard Loeb.
Saved from the electric chair by famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow, Leopold and Loeb were sentenced to life in prison.
Loeb was killed by a fellow inmate in 1936.
www.si.umich.edu /lila/artifacts/caption.phtml?captions_id=12   (96 words)

  
 Find in a Library: The plea of Clarence Darrow, August 22nd, 23rd & 25th, MCMXXIII, in defense of Richard Loeb and ...
Find in a Library: The plea of Clarence Darrow, August 22nd, 23rd & 25th, MCMXXIII, in defense of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr., on trial for murder.
The plea of Clarence Darrow, August 22nd, 23rd & 25th, MCMXXIII, in defense of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr., on trial for murder.
by Clarence Darrow; Nathan Freudenthal Leopold; Richard A Loeb; Illinois.
www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/2a46aef2e79ccf37.html   (131 words)

  
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The first section is the transcript from the original Leopold and Loeb murder case; the files following are of the Leopold vs. Levin et al.
Oversize: Clippings of Leopold and Loeb trial for mutilation of taxicab driver Charles Ream (photostatic copies; positives),
Microfilm: Leopold and Loeb Case, Index: Psychiatric Examinations, Richard Loeb, Nathan Leopold, Jr.,
www.newberry.org /collections/FindingAids/Xml/Bergstrom.xml   (1605 words)

  
 Stoneham Theatre - Thrill Me   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Set in Chicago, 1924, it chronicles the events that lead Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb to commit and unthinkable crime - the murder of a young boy.
Stephen Dolginoff's dark score propels the action and underscores the tension at the center of the plot.
Thrill Me examines the lives of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, who committed one of the most infamous and heinous crimes of the 20th Century.
www.stonehamtheatre.org /781-279-2200/emerging_stages/thrill_me.html   (240 words)

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