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Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. (November 19, 1904 – August 29, 1971) [1] and Richard Albert Loeb (/ ˈ l oʊ b /; June 11, 1905 – January 28, 1936), usually referred to collectively as Leopold and Loeb, were two American students at the University of Chicago who kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago, Illinois, United States, on May 21, 1924.
In 1924, the body of Bobby Franks was found in a culvert just northwest of the lake. Franks was the victim of the so-called "thrill killers," Leopold and Loeb – the subjects of what was termed the "Trial of the Century." It's well known that Chicagoland gangsters used to dispose of bodies in this lake system as well.
May 21, 1924: University students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks. Leopold, aged 19 at the time, and Loeb, 18, believed themselves to be Nietzschean Übermenschen who could commit a "perfect crime" (in this case a kidnapping and murder). Both were sentenced to life imprisonment plus 99 years; Loeb ...
German-American businessman convicted of murdering his second wife and dissolving her body in a vat filled with lye at his sausage company: Hampton W. Wall: Staunton: 1898-04-15: Illinois legislator murdered by a tenant: Hale Johnson: Bogota: 1902-11-04: Prohibition Part presidential candidate; shot to death while trying to collect a debt ...
Bobby Frank Cherry Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. Robert Edward Chambliss (January 14, 1904 – October 29, 1985), also known as " Dynamite Bob ", [ 1 ] was a white supremacist terrorist convicted in 1977 of murder for his role as conspirator in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963.
Police body-camera footage released Wednesday shows a Canton police officer responding to a report of a crash and finding Frank Tyson, a 53-year-old East Canton resident, by the bar in a nearby ...
In addition to his wife, Maureen, Bobby Minicucci is survived by five daughters, Lauren Minicucci Palmer, Lisa Minicucci (Frank) Hoy, Lynn Minicuccci Velasco, Rebecca (Mark) Titchner, Tecia (Louis ...
Bobby Frank Cherry was born on June 20, 1930, in Mineral Springs, a neighborhood of Clanton, Alabama. (Fellow defendant Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. was born on June 20, eight years later.) He joined the United States Marine Corps as a youth, where he gained expertise in demolitions and working with explosives. After his time with the Marines ...