Leopold and Loeb

The Crime of the Century

Hal Higdon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

1999
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-06829-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Among the criminal celebrities of Prohibition-era Chicago, two well-educated Jewish boys from wealthy South Side families were notorious. Revealing secret testimony, this book separates fact from myth as it unravels the crime, the investigation, and the trial, in which they were defended by the era's famous attorney, Clarence Darrow.

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The razor-sharp account of a notorious murder The 1924 murder of fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb shocked the nation. One hundred years later, the killing and its aftermath still reverberate through popular culture and the history of American crime.

Hal Higdon's true crime classic offers an unprecedented examination of the case. Higdon details Leopold and Loeb's journey from privilege and promise to the planning and execution of their monstrous vision of the perfect crime. Drawing on secret testimony, Higdon follows the police investigation through the pair's confessions of guilt and recreates the sensational hearing where Clarence Darrow, the nation's most famous attorney, saved the pair from the death penalty.

In-depth and definitive, Leopold and Loeb tells the dramatic story of a notorious crime and its long afterlife in the American imagination.

Autor

Hal Higdon is a longtime contributing editor to Runner's World. He is the author of thirty-six books, including The Union vs. Dr. Mudd and Boston, a Century of Running.

Inhalt

Preface to the Centenary Edition  7
Prologue    9


Part One: THIS CURIOUS COMING TOGETHER  11


1.   Burglary  13


2.   Chicago   16


3.   Wednesday   29


4.   Ransom   39


5.   Hunt  48


6.   Clues    56


7.   Leads   64


8.   Alibis   76


9.   Interrogation    86


10.   Confession    95


Part Two: THE MILLION-DOLLAR DEFENSE    113


11.   Anguish   115


12.   Evidence  125


13.   Condemnation  133


14.   Examinations    142


15.   Plea    160


16.   Prosecution    169


17.   Mitigation   188


18.   Alienists   206


19.   Showdown  232


20.   ABCD   249


21.   Judgment    261


Part Three: NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT   271


22.   Joliet  273


23.   Life    282


24.   Death    289


25.   Light  304


26.   Compulsion   321


27.   Atonement  332


Epilogue   341


Acknowledgments  345


Notes  350


Bibliography  369


Index  371


 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.1999
• Zusatzinfo: 1 black & white photograph
• Verlagsort: Baltimore
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Gewicht: 594 g
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• ISBN-10: 0-252-06829-7 / 0252068297
• ISBN-13: 978-0-252-06829-4 / 9780252068294
• Zustand: Neuware