Imagine finding a ransom note one day, telling you your son was taken and you must follow the directions given to get him back. Sadly, that is exactly what happened to Jacob Franks and Flora Franks. Murder has always been a big issue in big cities like Chicago. People are shot or stabbed in the heat of the moment, but not as common is a planned murder. There are many different reasons people kill other people, greed, anger, drugs, revenge, even self-defense, but the reason Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb killed Bobby Franks was for a completely different reason; to see if they could get away with it. In Chicago during this time there hadn’t been a lot of serial killers, just random murders, other than the infamous H.H. Holmes, so when people …show more content…
Leopold having an IQ of 210, and Loeb also having a high IQ but not as high as Leopold’s. Since they were so smart they skipped grades in school. Leopold graduated from the University of Chicago at the age of 18 and Loeb even graduated from University of Michigan at the age of 17. Not only were they super smart, but they were also part of some of the richest families in Chicago at the time. Loebs dad was a lawyer and Leopold was the son of a wealthy german immigrant. The boys were fairly healthy, except Leopold a couple months prior started getting headaches, so he was prescribed reading glasses and when the headaches went away he stopped wearing them. Loeb and Leopold became good friends, but they had nothing in common. Eventually, Loeb allowed Leopold to commit petty crimes with him in exchange for sex. They committed small crimes such as vandalism, which led to theft and arson. Loeb and Leopold both enjoyed crime, and they were disappointed in a sense that they weren’t getting any attention from the media. Because of this they decided they wanted to try something even bigger than petty theft, or arson. They wanted to see if they could get away with murder. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb started crafting a plan for the “perfect murder”. They decided on the murder weapon, how to dispose of the body and everything else they’d need to get away with it. The planning took about 7 months until it was finished. The only thing they …show more content…
Even Darrow defended someone who was arrested with murder, Mr. Patrick Eugene Prendergast, and he pleaded for insanity, his whole family was known to be crazy, but he was still given capital punishment, which is the death sentence. The reason the trial with Leopold and Loeb was so important was because it was one of the first cases in Illinois where the insanity plea worked. It also helped show the importance of how capital punishment is seen more as revenge, rather than “transformative justice”. In other words, the death sentence is really only a way to get revenge and not a way you can help a person. After this case and many more cases, Illinois has finally prohibited the death sentence in 2011. It is important for there to not be the death sentence because like previously mentioned, all you’re doing is getting revenge, not helping anyone. In a sense, we aren’t any better than the person being killed. We are basically killing someone because they killed someone. So because of the murder trial of Bobby Franks, the plea for insanity has been used more and has worked
Joseph Brant was born in Northeastern Ontario of March 1742. His native name was Thayendanegea. Brant had one sibling named Mary Degonwadont (Molly Brant). His dad’s and mom’s name are Peter Tehonwaghkwangeraghka and Margaret. Brant got his education at Moor's Indian Charity school in Connecticut.
He might have killed a “Mass” of people but after each murder he had a period of cool off time. The myth that no serial killers can function properly in society that he must have been a loner which could not be successful. Yet Holmes earned a M.D., owned small businesses, and married. Finally, the myth that all serial killers are sexually motivated although the majority are, Holmes was never interested in that he was interested in earning the money of the victims he
While destroying all the evidence they couldn’t destroy everything as when the body was found at the scene police easily traced the glasses. “At the trial they were found guilty and they confessed that both of them were the part of the crime but their defence lawyer used the mental competence at the trial to save them for the crime”(Leopold and Loeb). The issue that came up to the lame light was did they have a
In the year 1984 the world came to know an infamous man named John Wayne Gacy Jr. John Wayne Gacy Jr was born in March of 1942 and lived to be fifty-two years old. John ended up being well known in the state of Illinois where he was put to death by the lethal injection in 1994. John Wayne Gacy Jr who also ended up being known as the Killer Clown was indicted on charges for taking the lives and raping at least thirty-three young males (“John Wayne Gacy Biography,” 2017).
Killers Often remembered and memorialized are the unfortunate victims of a homicide, and the executioners of the crime, the killers, are left away to rot in their graves, with their stories buried under the soil with them. In the true crime novel In Cold Blood, the author Truman Capote recounts the slaughter of a family of four in the quiet, once-ordinary town of Holcomb, Kansas by a pair of seemingly ruthless murderers. However, unlike most recounts, Capote’s work also focuses on the story and point of view of each criminal, letting readers familiarize with them. His comprehensive coverage of the killers, Richard “Dick” Hickock and Perry Smith, provides readers with a greater understanding of the two men.
he death penalty deters criminals and makes them think twice. This would happen because if they do something really horrible they won’t do it the first place. According to “Death Penalty Focus : Innocent and Condemned to Die: The Story of Greg Wilhoit” “A second trial was held in 1993, but after the prosecution presented their case (without the bite mark evidence) the judge issued a directed verdict of innocence and Greg was cleared of all charges.(Condemned 2016)This means that the trial had second thoughts that helped Greg win the trial. The article “Capital Punishment” claims that “ President Bill Clinton signs the Violent crime control and Law enforcement act that expands the federal death penalty to 60 crimes including 3 that don’t involve
In the court hearing Bryan brought up a case were Darrow was the defense attorney for two young wealthy educated young men from Chicago Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, who murdered fourteen year-old Bobby Frank. Darrow was able to convince the jury in that case not to convict both Leopold and Loeb to the death penalty due to outside influences such as evolution and the influence of Nietzsche’s inelastic ideas that they read while in college. The case of Leopold and Loeb was seen by critics in the nation as “the moral wasteland created by families with too much money, young men with too much education and not enough simple morality grounded in religion” Parrish
They were unarmed and it was a true act of extreme violence on Gregg’s part. He committed a capital offense of armed robbery and murder and deserved the death
My first name Nathan ranks thirty-eighth in the United States and thirteenth in Canada, but that is low in relation to crowning my first name to be the most popular in France (Campbell). I would have certainly not known my name to be so popular in a different country. Since I was born, I have been alien to knowledge of how I came to have my name, how popular it was, and what it meant because of accepting it without any thought. I never thought about how much my name represents who I am and how much it affects me. I wanted to figure out where my name came from; therefore, I found primary research useful by interviewing my mother about family surname history.
During the time that this was taking place Cleveland was hit hard by the great depression which just made these so much worse. Before the murders started they had grown even during the great depression. After the murders started Peter merlo and Martin zelenske were
To illustrate, this shows that accused people cannot be given punishments that are larger than the size of their crime. Lastly, death sentences are allowed, but must follow certain guidelines. The article from www.annenbergclassroom.org notes, “Except for a brief period in the 1970s, the death penalty has not been considered by the U.S. Supreme Court to be cruel and unusual punishment. As a result, Eighth Amendment challenges to the death penalty have focused on the methods used to carry out executions, whether certain offenders (for example, juveniles or the mentally retarded) should be subject to the sentence and whether death sentences are decided in a fair manner and by an impartial
I protest against the crimes and mistakes of society being visited upon them. All of us have a share in it.” He uses the effect of war on Leopold and
The late sixties and early seventies were mostly known as a time of overseas war and stateside flower power. Although for the Northern California communities, it was a time of fear and desperation. During this time a man, a psychopath really, was terrorizing the people with his deranged antics. This man was, and still is, one of the most well known and dangerous serial killers that the United States has ever produced.
Leopold was a military officer who later became a general who served under Napoleon, causing them to move around this took a toll on the Hugo family. This produced many
The worst part of the trip was when Mozart's mother became ill and died. After that he returned home and got a better position there. He then went to Vienna where he found worked as a teacher, playing in concerts, and playing for publications. He got married there too to Constanze, at first Leopold didn’t agree to Mozart getting married but later he