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Author : Maureen McKernan
Publisher : Gaunt
ISBN 13 : 9781561692156
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (921 download)
Download or read book The Amazing Crime and Trial of Leopold and Loeb written by Maureen McKernan and published by Gaunt. This book was released on 1924 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maureen McKernan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (196 download)
Download or read book The Amazing Crime and Trial of Leopold and Loeb written by Maureen McKernan and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Greg King
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 125027267X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Nothing but the Night written by Greg King and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greg King and Penny Wilson turn the original crime of the century on its head in Nothing But the Night, a riveting new exploration of the murder trial of Leopold & Loeb. Nearly a hundred years ago, two wealthy and privileged teenagers—Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb—were charged and convicted in a gruesome crime that would lead to the original “Trial of the Century”. Even in Jazz Age Chicago, the murder was uniquely shocking for the motive of the killers: well-to-do Jewish scions, full of promise, had killed fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks for the thrill of it. The trial was made even more sensational by the revelation of a love affair between the defendants and by defense attorney Clarence Darrow, who delivered one of the most famous defense summations of all time to save the boys from the death penalty. The story of their mad folie à deux, with Loeb portrayed as the psychopathic mastermind and Leopold as his infatuated disciple, has been endlessly repeated and accepted by history as fact. And none of it is true. Using twenty-first century investigative tools, forensics, and a modern understanding of the psychology of these infamous killers, Nothing but the Night turns history on its head. While Loeb has long been viewed as the architect behind the murders, King and Wilson’s new research points to Leopold as the dominant partner in the deadly relationship, uncovering a dark obsession with violence and sex. Nothing but the Night pulls readers into the troubled world of Leopold and Loeb, revealing a more horrifying tale of passion, obsession, and betrayal than history ever imagined.
Author : Hal Higdon
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252068294
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (682 download)
Download or read book Leopold and Loeb written by Hal Higdon and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an account of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb's killing of fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks, their celebrity, and their ultimate emergence as folk heroes.
Author : Simone Payment
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823939701
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (397 download)
Download or read book The Trial of Leopold and Loeb written by Simone Payment and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the trial of teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, who abducted and murdered a teenage boy, discussing the investigation, the trial, and the sentence.
Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781514389522
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (895 download)
Download or read book Leopold and Loeb written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the crime and trial, including the confessions *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "A superman ... is, on account of certain superior qualities inherent in him, exempted from the ordinary laws which govern men. He is not liable for anything he may do." - Richard Loeb There has been no shortage of shocking crimes and trials that generated frenzied coverage across America, but few can lay claim to "crime of the century" like the murder carried out by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb in 1924. While studying as young adults at the prestigious University of Chicago, Leopold and Loeb devised a meticulous plot to kidnap and murder a child while managing to get away with ransom money, thereby perpetrating what they considered a "perfect crime." On May 21, they put their plan in motion and targeted 14 year old Bobby Franks, who had the misfortune of being acquainted with Loeb. Franks was lured into a vehicle and brutally murdered before Leopold and Loeb dumped his body 25 miles away. When attempts at ransom went awry almost immediately, Leopold and Loeb tried to cover their tracks, only to have a special set of eyeglasses link Franks' murder back to Leopold. Barely less than a week after the murder, the "perfect crime" completely unraveled when Leopold and Loeb were brought in for formal questioning and confessed. The crime was horrific enough, but the trial brought even more attention to the case, and it touched on several crucial issues. Both young men cited the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche as a motivation for attempting to commit the crime and prove they were better than the common man. As Leopold told his own attorney, "The killing was an experiment It is just as easy to justify such a death as it is to justify an entomologist killing a beetle on a pin." Moreover, in addition to the killers' families hiring renowned defense lawyer Clarence Darrow, the crimes took place at a time when various forms of media were becoming ever more popular, particularly radio and film. Thus, the trial generated more coverage than just about any before it on the way to being billed as the "Trial of the Century," and Darrow did his best to prevent the boys from suffering the death penalty by citing other factors: "This terrible crime was inherent in his organism, and it came from some ancestor... Is any blame attached because somebody took Nietzsche's philosophy seriously and fashioned his life upon it?... It is hardly fair to hang a 19-year-old boy for the philosophy that was taught him at the university." Ultimately, the boys were given life sentences + 99 years for the kidnapping, which would lend its name to a memoir written by Leopold. For his part, Darrow would use his increased prestige to participate the following year in the famous Scopes Trial. Leopold and Loeb: The History and Legacy of One of 20th Century America's Most Notorious Crimes and Trials chronicles the shocking crime and the trial that followed. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Leopold and Loeb like never before, in no time at all.
Author : Simon Baatz
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006182884X
Total Pages : 845 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)
Download or read book For the Thrill of It written by Simon Baatz and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a crime that shocked the nation: the 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 were intellectuals—too smart, they believed, for the police to catch them. When they were apprehended, state's attorney Robert Crowe was certain that no defense could save the ruthless killers from the gallows. But the families of the confessed murderers hired Clarence Darrow, entrusting the lives of their sons to the most famous lawyer in America in what would be one of the most sensational criminal trials in the history of American justice. Set against the backdrop of the 1920s—a time of prosperity, self-indulgence, and hedonistic excess in a lawless city on the brink of anarchy—For the Thrill of It draws the reader into a world of speakeasies and flappers, of gangsters and gin parties, with a spellbinding narrative of Jazz Age murder and mystery.
Author : Alvin Victor Sellers
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1584773383
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (847 download)
Download or read book The Loeb-Leopold Case written by Alvin Victor Sellers and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of first and only edition. The Loeb-Leopold case was one of the most fascinating and sensational trials of the twentieth century. On May 21, 1924, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb confessed to the thrill killing of fourteen-year old Bobby Franks. Clarence Darrow led their defense team. Robert Crowe, the prosecutor, was an equally skillful adversary. What is more, both attorneys called alienists to the stand who offered conflicting assessments of the defendants' mental states. Though their guilt was beyond question, Darrow hoped to save them from the electric chair. His successful twelve-hour plea, one of the greatest courtroom speeches in history, moved the presiding judge to tears.
Author : Daniel Boyarin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231113748
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Queer Theory and the Jewish Question written by Daniel Boyarin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Author : Betty Ann Erickson Vaughn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Forensic Speaking in the Loeb-Leopold Trial written by Betty Ann Erickson Vaughn and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nina Barrett
Publisher : Agate Midway
ISBN 13 : 9781572842403
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (424 download)
Download or read book The Leopold and Loeb Files written by Nina Barrett and published by Agate Midway. This book was released on 2018 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Candace Fleming
Publisher : Anne Schwartz Books
ISBN 13 : 0593177444
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Murder Among Friends written by Candace Fleming and published by Anne Schwartz Books. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Andy Koopmans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781590182277
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Leopold and Loeb written by Andy Koopmans and published by . This book was released on 2003-12-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the notorious trial of teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, who, on May 21, 1924, abducted and murdered a fourteen-year-old boy. Includes discussion of the backgounds of the two young murderers and their victim, the psychological ramifications of the crime, and famed civil rights attorney Clarence Darrow's defense strategy.
Author : Gilbert Geis
Publisher : Northeastern University Press
ISBN 13 : 1555538681
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Crimes Of The Century written by Gilbert Geis and published by Northeastern University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In compelling narrative, the authors probe the sensational cases of Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., and Richard A. Loeb, the Scottsboro "boys," Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Alger Hiss, and O.J. Simpson, highlighting significant lessons about criminal behavior and the administration of criminal justice. Each case study details the crime, the police investigation, and the court proceedings, profiles the major players, and examines the outcome and aftermath of the trial. The authors untangle the perplexities surrounding the cases and illuminate the many mysteries that remain unsolved today. These celebrated trials reveal issues of overzealous prosecution, sloppy police work, judicial bias, race, class, and ethnic struggles, and the role of wealth in securing a competent defense. They also show how the temper of the times and frenzied media coverage heightened the intensity of drama in the cases.
Author : Clarence Darrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781545442685
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book The Plea of Clarence Darrow written by Clarence Darrow and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the memorable plea made by renowned lawyer Clarence Darrow in defense of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. Darrow's clients, known by the press generally as "Leopold and Loeb" were just young men themselves when they committed a heinous act. The pair murdered a young boy named Bobby Franks, and the shocking crime and trial captivated not only Chicago, but the entire country.
Author : Peter Graham
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1620876302
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century written by Peter Graham and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a detailed account of the shocking 1954 murder committed by two teenage girls in New Zealand, which led to headlines around the world and inspired the Academy Award-nominated film Heavenly Creatures.
Author : Clarence Darrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Plea of Clarence Darrow written by Clarence Darrow and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
