On the afternoon of May 21, 1924, Franks came across 18-year ... Often appealing directly to the judge, Darrow used Leopold ...
Nathan Leopold had planned to visit Paris in the summer of 1924. Instead ... for law enforcement, whose case quickly came together with murder charges against Loeb and Leopold.
The past hundred years have seen more than one high-profile prosecution branded as the “crime of the century.” The shocking 1924 crime that was among the first to carry the title turned out to be a ...