S1 Ep2: Leopold & Loeb: Jazz Age Killers

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On May 21, 1924, 19-year-old Nathan Leopold and 18-year-old Richard Loeb convinced a younger boy, 14 year old Bobby Franks, to get in a car with them. We think Leopold was driving with Loeb in the backseat. 14 year old Bobby sat in the passenger seat. From behind, Loeb struck the younger boy several times in the head with a chisel, and then dragged him into the backseat where he eventually died.

Leopold and Loeb were wealthy kids who thought they were smarter than everybody else. And they committed this murder to prove it. They believed that they were so intellectually gifted that they could plan and execute a crime so perfect that they would never be caught. They were wrong, of course. And the details of this story and their plan are so terrifying and haunting that it changed the way people raised their kids and thought about psychology.

"Crimes of the Centuries" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a mark and helped change history.

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0:00.0	The best thing I got on Deepa.
0:01.4	That's a good question.
0:02.4	This really nice 80s Adidas jumper.
0:05.2	The quarter rates were chunk-waring.
0:06.4	This pink mini skirt.
0:08.2	This Jessica Torehari.
0:09.3	Probably my unif choke boots.
0:11.0	This pair of jeans, I wear them all the time.
0:12.6	The main one I'm quite into the moment is extreme layering.
0:15.5	Ranch.
0:16.4	White's okay.
0:17.6	Relaxed grandpa.
0:19.0	Part-time punk, part-time polypocket.
0:20.8	I think co-cat is the word.
0:22.2	Baggy relaxed and a bit out there.
0:24.3	Necher short, I barely short, short.
0:26.4	That's like my favourite outfit at the moment.
0:28.6	I got it on Deepa.
0:36.6	Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they earn the label crime of the century.
0:44.8	But the stories that made headlines in decades past aren't necessarily remembered today.
0:52.6	I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author.
0:56.4	In each episode of this show, I'll examine a case that's maybe lesser known today, but
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