Records of District Courts of the United States. 1685 - 2009. Civil Case Files. 1938 - 1995. Nathan F. Leopold, Jr. vs. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

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Records of District Courts of the United States. 1685 - 2009. Civil Case Files. 1938 - 1995. Nathan F. Leopold, Jr. vs. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

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Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal, 1904 or 5-1971

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Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. (1904-1971) is notorious for his partnership with Richard Loeb in the murder of a 14-year-old neighborhood boy, Bobby Franks, on May 24, 1924. Both from prominent Kenwood families and students at the University of Chicago (Leopold 1920-1924 and Loeb 1919-1924), they planned an intellectual exercise, "the perfect murder." They were discovered eight days later. With Clarence Darrow working for the defense, they were sentenced to life imprisonment. Paroled in 1958, N...