Crowe and Darrow, the lead attorneys on either side of the case, also presented wildly varied portraits of the killers. The prosecutor referred to Leopold and Loeb as “cowardly perverts ...
Most historians who have studied the case believe that while Leopold drove the car, Loeb grabbed the boy from behind and bludgeoned the back of his head with the blunt end of a chisel before ...
Feb. 9 (check local listings), which examines this blockbuster case. The pair, both 19, seemed to have it all. Leopold and Loeb were both scions of families worth multi-millions of dollars in ...
In the Leopold and Loeb trial of 1924, attorney Clarence Darrow achieved what many thought impossible. He saved the lives of two cold-blooded child-killers with the power of a speech. Nathan ...
The case of Nathan Leopold, participant in the sensational Loeb-Leopold murder of 1923, comes before the Illinois Parole Board this January. Last year, Leopold's parole was granted, only to be ...
She also tells us about the tools used by the prosecution that were in their infancy during the famed case. Read Meilan Solly's Smithsonian story about Leopold and Loeb here (https ...
Two intellectuals are tried for murdering a boy. Powerful dramatization of the '20s Leopold-Loeb case. Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, Diane Varsi, E.G. Marshall, Martin Milner.