For the thrill of it Leopold, Loeb, and the murder that shocked jazz age Chicago
In the tradition of "The Devil in the White City" comes a riveting recreation of one of the most infamous crimes of the 20th century--the scandalous Leopold-Loeb murder case that shocked Chicago. Photos throughout.
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New York
Harper Perennial
2009
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Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Part 1: Crime
- 1: Kidnapping
- 2: Relationship
- 3: Planning the murder
- 4: Murder
- 5: Ransom
- 6: Interrogation
- 7: Confessions
- Part 2: Attorneys
- 8: Clarence Darrow
- 9: Robert Crowe
- Part 3: Courtroom
- 10: Indictment
- 11: Scientists arrive
- 12: Mitigation of punishment
- 13: Psychiatrists for the defense
- 14: Psychiatrists for the state
- 15: Closing statements
- 16: Sentencing
- 17: Aftermath
- Leopold and Loeb in fiction
- Author's note
- Sources
- Notes
- Index
- Illustration credits.