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   Murder of Bobby Franks Bobby Franks Leopold and Loeb, who were 19 and 18, respectively, at the time, settled on kidnapping and murdering a younger adolescent as their perfect crime.

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   May 20, 2024 · A century ago, two Chicago teenagers killed an acquaintance named Bobby Franks for the thrill of it. The case captivated the nation and continues to fascinate the public today. On May 21, 1924,...

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   Apr 11, 2024 · At four o’clock in the morning on May 31, 1924 both Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold confessed separately to the murder of Bobby Franks. “The Franks murder mystery has been solved,” State’s Attorney Robert Crowe announced to a dozen reporters who had waited overnight for a break in the case.

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   Feb 1, 2024 · One hundred years ago, wealthy Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb brutally murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks. Why is popular culture obsessed with this horrific case? It took a...

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   Jun 27, 2024 · Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr., and Richard Albert Loeb were infamous Chicago murderers of 1924, who confessed to the kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old Robert (Bobby) Franks for an “intellectual” thrill.

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   May 21, 2024 · Franks was killed by a blow to the head with a chisel. The pair then dumped the teen’s nude body in a culvert. But their plan to collect a ransom from Franks’ family and get away scot-free ...

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   Who killed Bobby Franks?

   • A century ago, two Chicago teenagers killed an acquaintance named Bobby Franks for the thrill of it. The case captivated the nation and continues to fascinate the public today On May 21, 1924, Nathan Leopold Jr. (left) and Richard Loeb (right) murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks.

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   Who killed Bobby Franks & Nathan Leopold?

   • Richard Loeb, the younger of the two, did the actual murder of Bobby Franks, his 14-year-old cousin, while Nathan Leopold drove the car. But the two were thick as thieves in other crimes, and Leopold was obsessed with Loeb, often pretending to rape him whenever Loeb was drunk or pretending to be drunk.

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   Why did Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb kill Bobby Franks?

   • On May 21, 1924, Nathan Leopold Jr. (left) and Richard Loeb (right) murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks. Leopold later described the pair's motive as “a sort of pure love of excitement, or the imaginary love of thrills, doing something different.” Photo by Hulton-Deutsch / Hulton-Deutsch Collection / Corbis via Getty Images

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   Who was Bobby Franks?

   • Bobby Franks was an across-the-street neighbor of Loeb's who had played tennis at the Loeb residence several times. Leopold and Loeb put their plan in motion on the afternoon of May 21, 1924. Using an automobile that Leopold rented under the name Morton D. Ballard, they offered Franks a ride as he walked home from school.

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   Aug 5, 2008 · Simon Baatz. It was a crime that shocked the nation: the brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child by two wealthy college students who killed solely for the thrill of the experience. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were intellectual -- too smart, they believed, for the police to catch them.