“The PERFECT MURDER OF BOBBY FRANKS: The Leopold and Loeb Case” #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 161 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE: Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb should never have been friends, they were too different from on another. But they did have one thing in common – they both agreed to create the perfect murder – and a mundane pair of eyeglasses would be their undoing.
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| 0:57.0 | On May 21st, 1924, 14 year old Bobby Franks left an after-school baseball game to walk the |
| 1:10.4 | three blocks home to his house in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago and simply |
| 1:15.8 | vanished. |
| 1:17.7 | After dinner, his worried father, Jacob, began calling and then looking around the neighborhood, but no one had any idea where Bobby was. |
| 1:27.0 | At about 10 p.m. while Jacob was still out, his wife Flora was called to the telephone. A man identifying himself as Mr Johnson |
| 1:37.2 | informed her that Bobby had been kidnapped. The caller hung up and Flora fainted. The Franks's |
| 1:44.4 | spent a sleepless night frantic with worry before receiving at 9 a.m. May 22nd |
| 1:50.4 | a special delivery letter informing them that their son was still alive, but that they |
| 1:55.4 | must deliver a $10,000 ransom that afternoon in order to keep him safe. |
| 2:01.8 | Jacob Franks was at the bank, withdrawing the money as instructed in old 20 and $50 bills |
| 2:08.3 | when a tip came in from a morgue in Indiana near the Illinois border, that a boy's body had been found in a drainage |
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