LEOPOLD & LOEB Ep. 4 | “Aftermath”

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime, History

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb begin their new lives in prison, and those lives take very different turns. They use their money and intelligence to curry favor with the prison staff, but their stories end in dramatically different ways. One ends in a pool of blood. The other ends on an island in the Caribbean. Join Black Barrel+ for bingeable seasons with no commercials : blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join For more details, please visit www.blackbarrelmedia.com. Our social media pages are: @blackbarrelmedia on Facebook and Instagram, and @bbarrelmedia on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A listener note. This series in this episode contains some sexual and violent material that some might find disturbing.
0:08.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:10.0	January 28th 1936. Stateville maximum security prison 30 miles outside Chicago, Illinois. Richard
0:33.3	Lowe invited fellow inmate James Day to the shower room at noon. Richard had a key and could lock it from the inside so they have privacy.
0:43.3	Day was 21 and serving one to 10 years for armed robbery and Richard had a crush on him.
0:49.3	To entice Day to be with him, Richard had been sending gifts like cigarettes and money. If Day refused, Richard would make his privileges disappear.
1:01.3	James Day showed up to the showers on time to Richard's delight. Richard was already naked and slowly moved toward his guest.
1:09.3	But Richard didn't know that James Day had not appreciated the sexual advances. Richard didn't find out until James Day pulled out a straight razor.
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2:18.3	From Black Barrel Media, this is Infamous America. I'm your host Chris Wimmer, and this is the season finale of the story of two of the most notorious teenage murderers in American history.
2:29.3	This is chapter 4, The Aftermath.
2:34.3	The Aftermath
2:41.3	Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were on their way to prison, and they were going in style.
2:46.3	The lead car of their three car convoy was a black Cadillac sedan. The killers rode in a Packard limousine.
2:55.3	As the car sped along the highway, the brakes on the lead car locked up. The limousine swerved out of the way at 50 miles an hour.
3:04.3	It veered off the road and ended up on the tracks of the Chicago, Joliet and Elgin Railroad.
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