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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.

ISBN-13: 9780252087578

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Publication Date: 01-02-2024

Pages: 392

Product Dimensions: 9.02h x 6.10w x 0.89d

Hal Higdon is a longtime contributing editor to Runner’s World. He is the author of thirty-six books, including The Union vs. Dr. Mudd and Boston, a Century of Running.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Centenary Edition  7

Prologue    9

Part One: THIS CURIOUS COMING TOGETHER  11

1.   Burglary  13

2.   Chicago   16

3.   Wednesday   29

4.   Ransom   39

5.   Hunt  48

6.   Clues    56

7.   Leads   64

8.   Alibis   76

9.   Interrogation    86

10.   Confession    95

Part Two: THE MILLION-DOLLAR DEFENSE    113

11.   Anguish   115

12.   Evidence  125

13.   Condemnation  133

14.   Examinations    142

15.   Plea    160

16.   Prosecution    169

17.   Mitigation   188

18.   Alienists   206

19.   Showdown  232

20.   ABCD   249

21.   Judgment    261

Part Three: NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT   271

22.   Joliet  273

23.   Life    282

24.   Death    289

25.   Light  304

26.   Compulsion   321

27.   Atonement  332

Epilogue   341

Acknowledgments  345

Notes  350

Bibliography  369

Index  371