335 - Leopold and Loeb: The Perfect Murder

Timesuck with Dan Cummins - A podcast by Dan Cummins

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Why did two young, wealthy, academically gifted Chicagoans with seemingly incredibly bright futures ahead of them, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, seemingly randomly kill Loeb's second-cousin, 14 year-old Bobby Franks, on May 21st, 1924? And why did the crime make headlines across the nation and lead to the "trial of the century"?