Higdon Hal Higdon

Leopold and Loeb (eBook, ePUB)

The Crime of the Century

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The razor-sharp account of a notorious murderThe 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780252055065
• Artikelnr.: 72473578

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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