335 - Leopold and Loeb: The Perfect Murder

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Dan Cummins

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4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Summary

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"?

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0:00.0	What makes the perfect crime?
0:02.0	I would say that the perfect crime is a crime that goes undetected by everyone except
0:06.6	the perpetrator.
0:07.6	A crime where there are no investigators because investigators don't realize a crime is
0:11.1	even taken place.
0:12.6	Or at least one where investigators don't have enough evidence to convict whoever committed
0:15.9	it.
0:16.9	It remains unsolved forever, letting its perpetrators live out their lives as supposedly innocent
0:21.4	people.
0:22.6	The perfect crime to me doesn't mean a crime where the cops have bungled the investigation
0:26.0	or a crime where luck or chance leads to the criminals getting off.
0:29.9	The crime that criminals have designed to be so foolproof, so perfect that the crime
0:33.7	is literally unable to be solved.
0:36.4	Real diabolical, evil genius mastermind shit.
0:40.0	And the perfect crime is what two young men from Chicago, Nathan Leopold and Richard
0:44.0	Loeb thought they could of course pull off back in 1924.
0:47.8	I mean, how could they not?
0:49.4	They were geniuses and they were actually.
0:52.7	They were also a long ways from being criminal masterminds.
0:55.5	When authorities caught up to Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, for the killing of 14-year-old
0:58.9	Bobby Franks, they were shocked by who they had found.
1:02.3	These two killers were not hard and criminals or long, rap sheet having ruffians.
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