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The Trial of the Century: The Sentencing of Leopold and Loeb

by Tristan Smith • May 22, 2023 • 0 Comments

99 years ago, on May 21, 1924, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb committed what they believed would be the “perfect crime.” The two teenagers, in a desire to commit a high-profile, unsolvable crime and inspired by Nietzsche’s concept of the…

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