4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a... Biting cold front. Mmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise, slowly but surely, reaching their peak in the afternoon. |
0:23.0 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
0:25.8 | Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. |
0:28.6 | Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. Music Discretion is advised. |
0:45.3 | This is 10-minute murder. |
1:02.6 | Is there a such thing as the perfect crime? |
1:06.4 | In 1923, the idea crossed the minds of two young men, |
1:10.8 | Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. |
1:13.4 | The thought would have seen more plausible a hundred years ago before the days of fingerprinting, |
1:18.2 | DNA testing, and cameras on every corner. |
1:21.6 | And if anyone could pull it off, surely it would be two child prodigies. |
1:26.4 | Nathan Leopold said his first word at four months old. As a child, |
1:31.4 | he would study 15 languages. At 19, he graduated from the University of Chicago and had plans to |
1:37.8 | attend Harvard Law School after a European trip with his family. He was a nationally recognized |
1:43.6 | ornithologist and considered an expert on certain birds. |
1:47.8 | But Leopold was not an attractive person. |
1:51.1 | Actually, he was described as having an unusual appearance. |
1:55.2 | Maybe his social awkwardness and absence of athletic ability |
1:58.5 | is what attracted him to someone like Loeb, someone with the magnetism |
2:03.2 | that he lacked. Richard Loeb started high school at 12 years old. At 17, he became the youngest |
2:10.7 | person to graduate from the University of Michigan. He attended social events, he was athletic, |
2:16.9 | and by all accounts considered an attractive young man. |
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