For the Thrill of It Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago

Name: For the Thrill of It Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago
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ISBN: 9780060781026

ISBN-10: 0060781025

ISBN-13: 9780060781026

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Authors: Simon Baatz

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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 intellectuals-too smart, they believed, for the police to catch them. When they were apprehended, state's attorney Robert Crowe was certain that no defense could save the ruthless killers from the gallows. But the families of the confessed murderers hired Clarence Darrow, entrusting the lives of their sons to the most famous lawyer in America in what would be one of the most sensational criminal trials in the history of American justice.Set against the backdrop of the 1920s-a time of…

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List price: $16.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/28/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface



The Crime



The Kidnapping



The Relationship



Planning the Murder



The Murder



The Ransom



The Interrogation



The Confessions



The Attorneys



Clarence Darrow



Robert Crowe



The Courtroom



The Indictment



The Scientists Arrive



Mitigation of Punishment



Psychiatrists for the Defense



Psychiatrists for the State



Closing Statements



Sentencing



The Aftermath


Leopold and Loeb in Fiction


Author's Note


Sources


Notes


Index


Illustration Credits