Arrested Adolescence: The Secret Life of Nathan Leopold Rebain Erik
Arrested Adolescence: The Secret Life of Nathan Leopold Rebain Erik Nathan Leopold seemed to live a charmed life: a published, polyglot college graduate by the time he was 18 and from a prominent,…
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Arrested Adolescence: The Secret Life of Nathan Leopold Rebain Erik
Nathan Leopold seemed to live a charmed life: a published, polyglot college graduate by the time he was 18 and from a prominent, wealthy Chicago family. There was a massive public outcry when the murderers were spared the death penalty, and once they were behind bars, most hoped they would never be heard from again. So, it was a shock to everyone when he and his lover, Richard Loeb, confessed to killing their 14-year-old neighbor Bobby Franks "for a thrill." During the summer of 1924 the world watched in fascinated horror as the pair were defended by the famous Clarence Darrow in what many labeled the trial of the century.
In prison he ran a high school and library, worked as a nurse, and helped find a cure for malaria. 33 years after the murder, it seemed that Nathan Leopold was a changed man. He was deemed rehabilitated and paroled to a tiny town in the mountains of Puerto Rico. There