The Amazing Crime and Trial of Leopold and Loeb
Author : Maureen McKernan
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,82 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Trials (Murder)
ISBN :
Author : Maureen McKernan
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,82 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Trials (Murder)
ISBN :
Author : Maureen McKernan
Publisher : Gaunt
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 13,37 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Trials (Murder)
ISBN : 9781561692156
Author : Maureen McKernan
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Trials (Murder)
ISBN :
Author : Daniel Boyarin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780231113748
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Author : Nina Barrett
Publisher : Agate Midway
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 20,42 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781572842403
A history of Chicago's infamous 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case, told chiefly through a rare collection of carefully arranged primary source material, including confessions, court transcripts, psychological reports, evidence photos, and more.
Author : Simon Baatz
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 49,1 MB
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0060781009
It was a crime that shocked the nation, a 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 had first met several years earlier, and their friendship had blossomed into a love affair. Both were intellectuals—too smart, they believed, for the police to catch them. However, the police had recovered an important clue at the scene of the crime—a pair of eyeglasses—and soon both Leopold and Loeb were in the custody of Cook County. They confessed, and Robert Crowe, the state's attorney, announced to newspaper reporters that he had a hanging case. No defense, he believed, would save the two ruthless killers from the gallows. Set against the backdrop of the 1920s, a time of prosperity, self-indulgence, and hedonistic excess, For the Thrill of It draws the reader into a lost world, a world of speakeasies and flappers, of gangsters and gin parties, that existed when Chicago was a lawless city on the brink of anarchy. The rejection of morality, the worship of youth, and the obsession with sex had seemingly found their expression in this callous murder. But the murder is only half the story. After Leopold and Loeb were arrested, their families hired Clarence Darrow to defend their sons. Darrow, the most famous lawyer in America, aimed to save Leopold and Loeb from the death penalty by showing that the crime was the inevitable consequence of sexual and psychological abuse that each defendant had suffered during childhood at the hands of adults. Both boys, Darrow claimed, had experienced a compulsion to kill, and therefore, he appealed to the judge, they should be spared capital punishment. However, Darrow faced a worthy adversary in his prosecuting attorney: Robert Crowe was clever, cunning, and charismatic, with ambitions of becoming Chicago's next mayor—and he was determined to send Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb to their deaths. A masterful storyteller, Simon Baatz has written a gripping account of the infamous Leopold and Loeb case. Using court records and recently discovered transcripts, Baatz shows how the pathological relationship between Leopold and Loeb inexorably led to their crime. This thrilling narrative of murder and mystery in the Jazz Age will keep the reader in a continual state of suspense as the story twists and turns its way to an unexpected conclusion.
Author : John Logan
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573626715
Cast size: medium.
Author : Hal Higdon
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 23,22 MB
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0252055063
The razor-sharp account of a notorious murder The 1924 murder of fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb shocked the nation. One hundred years later, the killing and its aftermath still reverberate through popular culture and the history of American crime. Hal Higdon’s true crime classic offers an unprecedented examination of the case. Higdon details Leopold and Loeb’s journey from privilege and promise to the planning and execution of their monstrous vision of the perfect crime. Drawing on secret testimony, Higdon follows the police investigation through the pair’s confessions of guilt and recreates the sensational hearing where Clarence Darrow, the nation’s most famous attorney, saved the pair from the death penalty. In-depth and definitive, Leopold and Loeb tells the dramatic story of a notorious crime and its long afterlife in the American imagination.
Author : Candace Fleming
Publisher : Anne Schwartz Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,12 MB
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 0593177444
How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child...and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a decision: they would commit the perfect crime by kidnapping and murdering a child they both knew. But they made one crucial error: as they were disposing of the body of young Bobby Franks, whom they had bludgeoned to death, Nathan's eyeglasses fell from his jacket pocket. Multi-award-winning author Candace Fleming depicts every twist and turn of this harrowing case--how two wealthy, brilliant young men planned and committed what became known as the crime of the century, how they were caught, why they confessed, and how the renowned criminal defense attorney Clarence Darrow enabled them to avoid the death penalty. Following on the success of such books as The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh and The Family Romanov, this acclaimed nonfiction writer brings to heart-stopping life one of the most notorious crimes in our country's history.
Author : Peter Graham
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 2013-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1620876302
On June 22, 1954, teenage friends Juliet Hulme-- better known as bestselling mystery writer Anne Perry-- and Pauline Parker went for a walk in a New Zealand park with Pauline's mother, Honorah. When Honorah Parker was found in a pool of blood with the brick used to bludgeon her to death close at hand, Juliet and Pauline confessed to the killing. Their motive: a plan to escape to the United States to become writers, and Honorah's determination to keep them apart. Graham offers a brilliant account of the crime and ensuing trial and shares dramatic revelations about the fates of the young women after their release from prison.