The+Murder+Case

Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb ware teenagers. Eventually, the two decided to plan and commit the "perfect crime." It is debated as to whether it was Leopold or Loeb who first suggested they commit the "perfect crime," but most believe it was <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Loeb. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">kidnapped <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">14-year-old Bobby Franks, <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">bludgeoned <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">him to death in a rented car, and then <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">dumped <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Franks' body in a distant culvert. After that they <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">poured <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">hydrochloric acid on Franks' face and genitals to obscure the body's identity. However, on that dark night, Leopold and Loeb <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">didn't realize <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">that they <span style="color: #002060; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">had placed <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Franks' body with the feet sticking out of the drainage pipe. On their way home, Leopold and Loeb <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">stopped <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">to call the Franks' home that night to tell the family that Bobby <span style="color: #002060; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">had been kidnapped <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">. Leopold and Loeb <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">thought <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">that the culvert <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">would <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">keep the body hidden until it <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">had been reduced <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">to a skeleton. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The subsequent trial, featuring famous attorney Clarence Darrow, <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">made <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">headlines and <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">was <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">often <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">referred <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">to as "the trial of the century." The young age of the victim, the brutality of the crime, the wealth of the participants, and the confessions, all <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">made <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">this murder front page news. With the public definitely against the boys and an extremely large amount of evidence tying the boys to the murder, it <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">was <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">almost certain that Leopold and Loeb <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">were going to <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> receive the death penalty.

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