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Leopold and Loeb

The Crime of the Century
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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.
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.
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
"Higdon's book outdoes anything Alfred Hitchcock ever filmed. It is a masterpiece of suspense."--Oakland Tribune "There have been many spectacular murders in America since 1924, including a presidential assassination, but for the first half of the century, it was the murder of Bobby Franks that most shocked the public. Hal Higdon has superbly re-created the crime, combining painstaking documentation with an absorbing, often suspenseful narrative."--Newsday
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