Evil summer : Babe Leopold, Dickie Loeb, and the kidnap-murder of Bobby Franks
Theodore, John2007
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In 1924, fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks was abducted and killed, and later found stuffed in a culvert in a wasteland at Illinois-Indiana state line. This book covers killing, confessions, defense, and sentencing surrounding the murder, placing the killers' actions and Clarence Darrow's historical defense into the context of 1920s Chicago.
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Imprint:
Southern Illinois University Press, 2007.
Collation:
203p : illus.
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ISBN:
9780809327775
Dewey class:
364.1523
Language:
English
BRN:
2383331