MURDERED: Bobby Franks by Leopold and Loeb (Part 4 of 4) | Chicago, IL 1924
Obscura: A True Crime Podcast
Justin Drown
4.6 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Bobby Franks' murder reverberates through history with chilling clarity. The end of an infamous saga.
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Decades later, the reverberations of cruelty inflicted upon Bobby Franks reach us still. This climactic episode focuses unrelentingly on the details, and the chilling aftermath.
Explored through rare trial recordings and intense interrogation audio, this closure exposes the sickening hubris of Leopold and Loeb, who believed themselves untouchable.
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| 0:00.0 | Before this episode gets started, I want to give a special shout out to Dex, who was instrumental in me remaking this particular case and fully expanding it the way that I have. |
| 0:13.9 | So yeah, these episodes are dedicated to Dex. Thank you, Dex. |
| 0:19.8 | Welcome, listener. I'm glad you're here. Take a seat. Thank you, Dex. Welcome, listener. I'm glad you're here. |
| 0:23.8 | Take a seat. Next to the fire. |
| 0:29.1 | Welcome to Obscira, where we shine a light on the dark. |
| 0:33.5 | ... Park. Part of Part 1, The Knock |
| 1:00.1 | The Knock |
| 1:00.1 | May 25th, 1924, Nathan Leopold wakes at 7.15 a.m. He starts going about his usual routine. |
| 1:20.8 | He takes his usual, cold bath. Most don't bathe daily during the 1920s. But Nathan does. |
| 1:28.6 | He despises being unclean. |
| 1:30.9 | He shaves and then dresses for the day. |
| 1:33.6 | During his breakfast, Nathan reads the morning paper. |
| 1:37.4 | Police have found what they believed to be the murder weapon. |
| 1:40.6 | Nathan is beginning to feel a resignation to what the police discover. |
| 1:45.1 | He read the paper without his heart rate increasing. |
| 1:48.2 | The bloody chisel found by a night watchman. |
| 1:51.7 | Police are confused by the tape wrapped on the handle and don't recognize it. |
| 1:57.1 | Nathan recalls that it's zinc oxide tape used for wound dressing. |
| 2:02.3 | He saw his brother using it one day. |
| 2:04.9 | When preparing for the murder, Nathan applied it to the sharp end of the chisel. |
| 2:09.6 | The idea was that the zinc oxide tape would prevent cuts and reduce blood spatter. |
| 2:15.3 | This did not go to plan. |
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