Robby And Leopold Research Paper

Jonah Prescott Mr. Williams English 8th 2/23/24 Leopold and Loeb It was May 12, 1924, Robert “Bobby” Frank was murdered in cold blood. The 14-year-old boy was offered a ride home by his 2nd cousin Richard Loeb and Loeb’s friend and partner in crime Nathan Leopold. But before we continue, I’d like to backtrack a little bit prior to the events of the murder. The two lived the average childhood with a very standard and basic thrifty lifestyle, like how Loeb had a very successful lawyer for a father, or perhaps how Leopold's first words were spoken when he was a meager four months old, or maybe how Leopold’s father was a German immigrant with a nice robust wallet. These senseless idiots were both studying for a law degree at Harvard, they had everything

As the investigation was underway Leopold and Loeb were talking to family and friends about it, and they became obsessed with talking about it, which soon became the only thing they would speak about, during one discussion Leopold had with a girlfriend he jokingly said he’ll confess and give her the reward money, it was just a seemingly harmless joke. After Loeb helped a couple of reporter friends find a drug store they were attempting to give Bobby’s family instructions for the ransom, the reporters asked Leopold and Loeb if they could describe Bobby Frank, and he responded “If I were to murder anybody, it would be such a cocky little son of a Bi-- such as Bobby Frank.” After the police found a unique pair of glasses that only 3 people in the entirety of Chicago, one of them being Nathan Leopold, they brought the two of them in for questioning. Loeb was the first to confess, claiming Leopold planned everything and wanted him to drive, but Leopold said the exact opposite. Not that it mattered, both of them were sentenced to

On January 28th, 1936, Loeb was accused by a fellow inmate named James Day that Loeb sexually assaulted him so James in return inflicted more than 50 wounds with a razor, then cut his throat, killing him. Leopold lived on in prison, although extremely depressed he actually worked harder which eventually led to him getting out of prison on parole. Finally on March 13th, 1958, he was released on parole. He wrote a book titled Life and 99 Years, he managed to be the New York best selling author for 14 weeks. He then wanted to use some of the money from the book to set up the Leopold Foundation to aid emotionally disturbed and disabled individuals. After a few more years, Leopold couldn't handle the struggle of living in America, so he moved to Puerto Rico and married a widowed florist, then later died of a diabetes related heart-attack on August 29th, 1971, at the youthful age of 66. With that, the last of the two men who thought they could get away with the crime of the century died, the flame burnt out, reduced to stories and echoes of the past. The two cocky Harvard failures didn’t get away with the crime, which led to one of them dying, and the other trying to make