“LEOPOLD, LOEB, AND THE GHOST OF BOBBY FRANKS” and More Scary True Horror Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: A woman visiting her mother in the hospital takes an unexpected trip when stepping into the elevator. (Elevator Opens Into The Twilight Zone) *** Even 24 doors couldn't give Charles Lapham a way out of his seemingly-cursed life. (No Exit – The Lapham Patterson House) *** A nightmare is frightening, we can all agree on that. But what if you have a nightmare within a nightmare? One woman tells her terrifying story. (My Real Life Nightmare) *** Robert Berdella. Behind his friendly demeanor lurked a deadly obsession with torture and murder. (The Butcher of Kansas City) *** Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold believed themselves to be more intelligent than all others, and had a plan to to commit the perfect murder. But it would be their pride that brought the down in the end. (Chicago’s Thrill Killers)
SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
“Chicago’s Thrill Killers” by Troy Taylor: http://bit.ly/32z2mLe
“Elevator Opens Into the Twilight Zone” by Lisa Gibson: http://bit.ly/2VURTHJ
“The Butcher of Kansas City” by Orrin Grey: http://bit.ly/30sRCwJ
“My Real Life Nightmare” by Alicia Zapata, submitted at http://www.WeirdDarkness.com
“No Exit – The Lapham Patterson House” by Jessica Ferri: http://bit.ly/2pCMety
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| 1:08.9 | On May 21, 1924, the sons of two of Chicago's wealthiest and most illustrious families drove to the Harvard |
| 1:26.9 | School on the city's south side and kidnapped a young boy named Bobby Franks. Their plan was to |
| 1:38.9 | carry out the perfect murder. It was a scheme so devious that only two men of superior intellect, |
| 1:46.9 | such as their own, could accomplish it. |
| 1:50.9 | These two were Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold. They were the privileged heirs of well-known |
| 1:58.9 | Chicago families who had embarked on a life of crime for fun and for the pure thrill of it. |
| 2:05.9 | I'm Darren Marlar and this is Weird Darkness. |
| 2:11.9 | Welcome Weirdos, I'm Darren Marlar and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, |
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