137: The Perfect Crime - The Murder of Bobby Franks - Part 04
Obscura: A True Crime Podcast
Justin Drown
4.6 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Listener, I have a special multi-part series in store for you. For this episode we cover the players. Those involved. It’s an older story. With its murder taking place in 1924. At the time it was called The Crime of the Century, with a trial the likes the world had never seen. A full-blown media spectacle. And the victim caught up in a senseless scheme.
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| 0:00.0 | Before this episode gets started, I want to give a special shout out to Dex, who was instrumental in me remaking this particular case and fully expanding it the way that I have. |
| 0:13.9 | So yeah, these episodes are dedicated to Dex. Thank you, Dex. |
| 0:19.8 | Welcome, listener. I'm glad you're here. Take a seat. Thank you, Dex. Welcome, listener. I'm glad you're here. |
| 0:23.8 | Take a seat. Next to the fire. |
| 0:29.1 | Welcome to Obscira, where we shine a light on the dark. |
| 0:33.5 | ... Park. Part of Part 1, The Knock |
| 1:00.1 | The Knock |
| 1:00.1 | May 25th, 1924, Nathan Leopold wakes at 7.15 a.m. He starts going about his usual routine. |
| 1:20.8 | He takes his usual, cold bath. Most don't bathe daily during the 1920s. But Nathan does. |
| 1:28.6 | He despises being unclean. |
| 1:30.9 | He shaves and then dresses for the day. |
| 1:33.6 | During his breakfast, Nathan reads the morning paper. |
| 1:37.4 | Police have found what they believed to be the murder weapon. |
| 1:40.6 | Nathan is beginning to feel a resignation to what the police discover. |
| 1:45.1 | He read the paper without his heart rate increasing. |
| 1:48.2 | The bloody chisel found by a night watchman. |
| 1:51.7 | Police are confused by the tape wrapped on the handle and don't recognize it. |
| 1:57.1 | Nathan recalls that it's zinc oxide tape used for wound dressing. |
| 2:02.3 | He saw his brother using it one day. |
| 2:04.9 | When preparing for the murder, Nathan applied it to the sharp end of the chisel. |
| 2:09.6 | The idea was that the zinc oxide tape would prevent cuts and reduce blood spatter. |
| 2:15.3 | This did not go to plan. |
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