Nathan F. Leopold, Jr.
American murderer
Also known as: Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr.
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main reference
- In Leopold and Loeb: The murderers and their victim
Leopold attended the University of Michigan as an undergraduate at age 15, eventually transferring to the University of Chicago, where he graduated at 18. He then enrolled in the university’s law school. Loeb also attended the University of Michigan, and he graduated at 17, following…
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role of Darrow
- In Clarence Darrow
…(1924) Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold from a death sentence (though not from imprisonment) for the murder of 14-year-old Robert Franks in Chicago. In the famous trial of John T. Scopes at Dayton, Tennessee (July 10–21, 1925), Darrow defended a high-school teacher who had broken a state law by presenting…
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