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Warning.

This episode describes a heinous crime and a deeply disturbing tragedy.

The conclusion of this episode especially may profoundly upset listeners. Discretion advised.

In 1924, Richard Albert Loeb and Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr., two wealthy University of Chicago students who fancied themselves

intellectuals, abducted and murdered a 14-year-old Chicago boy, simply to prove that they were

smarter than authorities and could pull off the perfect crime. The trial of Leopold and Loeb, for what the press at the time called the quote unquote

crime of the century, became a media sensation, inspiring great outrage when famous lawyer

Clarence Darrow's impassioned 12-hour summation in their defense, saved them from

the electric chair. Besides Leopold and Loeb, most headline-grabbing crime in those years had to do

with underworld gangsters, much of it revolving around the bootlegging of liquor during prohibition.

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