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death of, 421, 447

psychiatric examination of Leopold and Loeb, 257–60

testimony in court hearing, 292–93, 303, 305, 307–11

Whitman, John L., 408

Wickman, E. Kester, 214

Wilkins, Ernest, 125

Wilkinson, Janet, 21–22, 197–201, 206, 372

Will, Ida, 191

Williams, Andrew, 363

Williams, Richard, 6–7, 16, 17

Wills Saint Claire automobile, 127

Willys-Knight automobile, 77

green, rental (murder vehicle), 76–78, 141

Leopold’s red sports car, 56, 65, 75–78, 89–90, 127–28, 129, 233

Wilson, Francis, 275

Wilson, Walter, 16, 17

Wilson, Woodrow, 183, 424

Winton automobile, 19–21, 25

Wolf, Melvin, 230–31

Wolf Lake Forest Preserve

crime scene, 10–12, 62

disposal of body, 85–86, 140

gray Winton automobile spotted at, 19, 20

Leopold birding with George Lewis at, 68–69, 103, 113–15

Leopold takes students birding at, 105, 108

Women’s Bar Association of Illinois, 275

World War I, 183

morality of the 1920s and, 376

X-rays, 351

of Leopold and Loeb, 252, 330–31, 335

Yaffe, James, 450

Yale University, 198, 202

Yost, Fielding, 55

Young, Hobart, 224

Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, 120

as Jewish fraternity, 57

Loeb in, 47

robbery of, by Leopold and Loeb, 56–58

Underwood typewriter stolen from, 57–58, 71

at University of Chicago, 58, 99

ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

1.
Robert (Bobby) Franks.
Frontispiece to Jack Franks,
My Blessed Little Pal
(n.p., 1926), in Box 1, Nathan F. Leopold Collection, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

2.
The drainage culvert.
New York Herald Tribune
Photograph Morgue, Long Island Division, Queens Borough Public Library.

3.
The Harvard School.
Frontispiece to
The Harvard School for Boys
(n.p., 1923) in Box 80, Records of Hyde Park Historical Society, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

4.
Richard (Dickie) Loeb.
New York World-Telegram and Sun
Photograph Morgue, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

5.
Richard Loeb.
New York World-Telegram and Sun
Photograph Morgue, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

6.
Il Circolo Italiano.
From
Cap and Gown,
28 (1923): 186.

7.
Nathan (Babe) Leopold.
New York World-Telegram and Sun
Photograph Morgue, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

8.
Zeta Beta Tau fraternity house.
Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity, Inc., 3905 Vincennes Road, Suite 300, Indianapolis, IN 46268.

9.
The ransom demand.
Chris Jouan, Jouan Illustration.

10.
The ransom letter.
Harold Hulbert Collection, University Archives, Northwestern University Library.

11.
The Law School, University of Chicago.
Picture of Stuart Hall, ID: apf2-07881, Series II (Buildings and Grounds), Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

12.
Willys-Knight automobile.
Collection of the author.

13.
The kidnapping.
Chris Jouan, Jouan Illustration.

14.
Disposal of the body.
Chris Jouan, Jouan Illustration.

15.
Inside the state’s attorney’s office.
New York World-Telegram and Sun
Photograph Morgue, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

16.
Clarence Darrow.
Box 22, Elmer Gertz Collection, McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Library.

17.
Robert Crowe.
New York World-Telegram and Sun
Photograph Morgue, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

18.
Waiting for habeas corpus.
New York Herald Tribune
Photograph Morgue, Long Island Division, Queens Borough Public Library.

19.
Leopold and Loeb enter Cook County jail.
New York Herald Tribune
Photograph Morgue, Long Island Division, Queens Borough Public Library.

20.
John Caverly.
Photographic History Collection, Behring Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

21.
Richard Loeb enters court.
New York World-Telegram and Sun
Photograph Morgue, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

22.
The defense team.
New York World-Telegram and Sun
Photograph Morgue, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

23.
Clarence Darrow.
Folder 9, Box 39, Elmer Gertz Collection, McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Library.

24.
A joke in court.
New York Herald Tribune
Photograph Morgue, Long Island Division, Queens Borough Public Library.

25.
Suicide watch.
New York World-Telegram and Sun
Photograph Morgue, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

26.
Clarence Darrow in court.
Folder 1, Box 22, Elmer Gertz Collection, McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Library.

27.
Leopold and Loeb enter Joliet Prison.
New York Herald Tribune
Photograph Morgue, Long Island Division, Queens Borough Public Library.

28.
Stateville Prison.
New York Herald Tribune
Photograph Morgue, Long Island Division, Queens Borough Public Library.

29.
The happy couple.
New York Herald Tribune
Photograph Morgue, Long Island Division, Queens Borough Public Library.

About the Author

SIMON BAATZ
holds a joint appointment as associate professor of history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

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