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The Casual Criminalist

6 - Leopold and Loeb: The "Genius" Killers

The Casual Criminalist

Cloud10

True Crime

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Just how "genius" these guys were... Well, we'll leave that up to your judgement.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Now on Times Radio.

0:02.8

Welcome everybody.

0:03.8

We are going to talk about the most Googled stories of the year.

0:06.2

What would your last Google search be?

0:07.8

Actually, I was just saying.

0:08.8

Dangerous question.

0:09.8

No, it was incredibly anodyne.

0:11.4

You do the romance, I'll do meaty.

0:13.4

That sums us up.

0:14.4

This is what you signed up to when you decided to listen to us.

0:16.8

Jane Garvey and Fee Glover live on Times Radio Monday to Thursday 3-5pm.

0:21.8

Listen on DAB Radio online on your smart speaker and the Times Radio app.

0:26.4

Download their podcast on air anytime.

0:56.4

It's no secret that plenty of murderers make a big deal out of their own intelligence.

1:10.0

It's a trademark characteristic of a sociopath.

1:12.8

They think themselves above the petty morality of us mere mortals.

1:17.0

But honestly, I think the trope of the genius killer is overused.

1:19.6

So much so that any old idiot with a smug smile and a murder conviction gets the label.

1:24.6

But in mind, I'd like to introduce today's case.

1:26.7

One of the most famous crimes in the history of Chicago, which chilled the city to the bone

1:30.9

back in the 1920s.

1:32.2

Hianococtele of trust fund, wealth, nealistic philosophy, and the promise of mass media

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