Arrested Adolescence
Book description
During the summer of 1924, everyone was obsessed with Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, the two wealthy, brilliant, lovers who had brutally murdered a boy with a chisel just for the "thrill." Between the charm and accessibility of the dashing teenage defendants, their "deviant" sexual appetites, and the 1920s' culture…
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This book scratches a long-standing itch for aficionados of the Leopold and Loeb crime of 1924. After the murder of Bobby Franks, after the trial of the century, and after the killing of Richard Loeb, then what happened? Erik Rebain finally fills in that gap with this meticulously sourced biography.
The book has a strong sense of place for moments in Leopold’s life that shook and shaped him — from prison riots to his first time seeing a show again as a free man. There are characters to meet, like his later-in-life wife and the distasteful friends he made while…
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