With Part One of our 3 part episode about teenage thrill killers, #LeopoldAndLoeb we examine the early lives of #NathanLeopold and #RichardLoeb in the lead-up to the senseless killing of young #BobbyFranks in what would become known as the #crimeofthecentury
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#TheseOldQueers
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*Special thanks to #ErikRebain for sources
1 Leopold & Loeb
2 Leopold Family - Patricia Stern
3 Young Nathan Leopold - 1920 Harvard School for Boys yearbook
4 Ernest and Richard with tennis rackets – Richard Loeb Papers; Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries
5 a postcard showing the patio of “The Big House”, Charlevoix
6 Richard Loeb (center) with some of his fraternity brothers in the 1922 UoM yearbook
7 Leopold feeding a Kirtland’s Warbler in 1923
8 Bobby Franks – Chicago Daily News
9 A culvert along the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks near Wolf Lake where Bobby’s body was concealed – Getty
10 Bobby Franks funeral, Jon Blackwell @100YearsAgoNews
listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
#TheseOldQueers
images:
images:
*Special thanks to #ErikRebain for sources
1 Leopold & Loeb
2 Leopold Family - Patricia Stern
3 Young Nathan Leopold - 1920 Harvard School for Boys yearbook
4 Ernest and Richard with tennis rackets – Richard Loeb Papers; Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries
5 a postcard showing the patio of “The Big House”, Charlevoix
6 Richard Loeb (center) with some of his fraternity brothers in the 1922 UoM yearbook
7 Leopold feeding a Kirtland’s Warbler in 1923
8 Bobby Franks – Chicago Daily News
9 A culvert along the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks near Wolf Lake where Bobby’s body was concealed – Getty
10 Bobby Franks funeral, Jon Blackwell @100YearsAgoNews



