by Simon Baatz
at Douglas School, 30–31, 309
egocentricity of, 27, 258, 259
elected to Phi Beta Kappa, 49
endocrinology of, 331–33
equipment for murder at home of, 75–76, 78
eyeglasses, 11, 12, 13, 25–26, 87, 103, 105, 110, 112, 113–15, 119
falls in love with Loeb, 43, 52
family history, 29–31
family’s disbelief about role in murder, 117–19, 126–27, 138
fantasies of, 45–46, 61, 256, 259, 264, 309–10, 317, 325, 345, 347, 354
feelings of superiority, 27, 52
Gertz as lawyer for, 439–43, 445–46
governess and, 31–32, 348
Hammond typewriter, 58, 121, 124
at Harvard School, 32–33
at Harvard University School of Law, 26
as homosexual, 47, 149, 264, 315–18, 380–83, 440–41
house (Greenwood Avenue), 28, 30, 32, 80, 89, 98, 109–10, 118, 121, 126–27, 143
hydrochloric acid and, 69–70, 86, 103, 142
illegal firearm found in bedroom, 111–12
insanity denied by, 254–55
intelligence of, 26, 33, 42, 47–50, 106, 255, 258–59, 262, 344, 465
in Joliet Prison, 406–9, 426–27
Judaism of, 26, 47, 139–40
kidnapping of Bobby Franks, 81–83, 85
lack of remorse, 147, 148, 259, 261, 290, 321, 356, 433
law exams taken by, 105–6
law study group, 120–25
lawsuit against movie Compulsion, 445–46
letter to Loeb found by police, 111, 117
linked to other crimes, 229–31
Loeb pins murder on, 147–48, 156
malaria and, 434–35
marriage to Trudi Feldman, 446–47
meets Darrow, 228–29
meets Loeb, 33–34, 315
as mentally diseased, 251, 267, 270, 305–38, 345–46, 356–57, 364–69, 397
motive for murder, 91, 99, 148, 156–57, 158, 251, 327, 371, 372–74, 380–81, 385–88, 437
murder of Bobby Franks, 75–87
murder of Bobby Franks, planning of, 60–61, 62–65, 74
murder of Loeb and, 432
musical ability, 340
Nietzsche’s superman and, 52, 54, 106, 259, 325, 406
ornithology and bird collection, 33, 49–50, 62, 68–69, 103, 104, 105, 118, 395
parole hearings and release, 433–43
as partner in Loeb’s criminality, 43, 45, 53, 56–58, 60–65
personality, 41–42, 110, 145, 148, 405
phone calls to Franks’s home, 7, 14, 88–89, 95–96
phone call to Ross drugstore, 97
pineal gland of, 253–54, 331, 334
plea of guilty, 282–88
plea of not guilty, 239–42
promise to mother to make Phi Beta Kappa, 29
pseudonym of Morton D. Ballard, 65–66, 67, 68, 76–77
psychiatric examination by prosecution, 151–61, 348–53
psychiatric examination by the defense, 251–64
in Puerto Rico, 444–47
purchases equipment for murder, 69–70
questioned at Criminal Court Building, 112–17, 122–23
questioned at Hotel LaSalle, 111–12
questioned by police, Ewing Avenue station, Sunday, 25
May, 105
questions Professor Putthammer about Franks’s murder, 106–8
ransom plan and, 7, 9–10, 14, 60–61, 63–65, 68, 70–71, 87–89, 93–98, 119, 156–57, 310
relationship with Loeb, 27, 41–46, 51–53, 58–60, 259–60, 264, 310–11, 315–18, 325, 440
relationship with Loeb, sexual, 52, 59–60, 259–60, 315–18, 384
retracing of steps on day of murder, 140–43
robbery of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, 56–58
sentencing of, 399–403
sexuality of, 310–11 (see also relationship with Loeb, sexual)
smoking of, 133
social difficulties and bullying of, early years, 30–31
statements to press, 395–96
in Stateville prison, 427–43
suicide rumor, 340–41
thrill-seeking by, 91
translation of Aretino’s I
Ragionamenti, 125–26
Underwood typewriter, 57–58, 104, 120–26, 143, 146
at University of Chicago, 26, 28, 33, 47–50
at University of Chicago Law School, 51, 62, 74
at University of Michigan, 47
wealth, 30, 233, 371, 373, 416
Leopold, Nathan F., Sr. (father), 30, 31, 89, 230, 244
appearance, 150
Bachrach brothers to represent son, 230, 231, 246, 289
car of, 77, 127
in court, 306, 333
Darrow representing son and, 143–45, 229
delay in obtaining legal counsel and, 119, 141
disbelief about son’s guilt, 118, 138
guilty plea by son and, 284
Kenwood home of, 394
meeting in Crowe’s office, 150–51
statement to media, 238–39, 268
verdict in Leopold and Loeb case and, 399, 402, 404
Leopold, Samuel (brother), 31, 437, 439–40
Leopold, Samuel F. (grandfather), 29–30
Leopold, Trudi Feldman (wife), 446–47
Les Trophées (Heredia), 73
Levin, Meyer, 445, 450
Levinson, Johnny, 79–80, 139
Levinson, Sol, 79, 138–39
Lewis, George, 68–69, 113, 114
Lewis, Nolan, 249
Life of Michael Angelo (Grimm), 35
Life Plus 99 Years (Leopold), 465
Lincoln, Warren, 271
Lincoln automobile, 127
Little Brother Fate (Roberts), 450
Loeb, Albert (father), 34, 38, 39, 140, 244, 399
country estate, Charlevoix, 394, 399
delay in getting legal counsel, 141
sale of home, 394
statement to media, 238–39, 268
as vice president, Sears, Roebuck, 34, 78, 221
Loeb, Allan (brother), 34, 244, 283, 306, 387, 399
Loeb, Anna (mother), 34, 39, 394, 399
belief in son’s innocence, 118–19, 138
Loeb, Ernest (brother), 34, 37, 119
Loeb, Jacob (uncle), 34, 143, 144, 145, 230, 306, 399
on Board of Education, 220–22, 224
Darrow hired by, 143–45, 229
influence in Jewish community, 220–21
meeting with Darrow on defense plan, 278–79
as witness against Fred Lundin, 220–22, 223, 224
Loeb, Richard, 270
activities after the murder, 89–90
admission of responsibility for crime, 159–61
alcohol use, 28, 42, 51, 58
alibi, 116–17, 119, 127–28, 131–32
amorality, 52
appearance, 34, 35, 38, 52, 281
atheism/agnosticism, 138, 257, 341
bank account of, 387–88
blood washed from car, 91–93
as Bobby Franks’s cousin, 81, 83, 102, 142, 157
books influencing, 34–35
Bowman-Hulbert examination of, 246–56
boys targeted by, 78–81, 139
breakfast while in custody, 145
celebrity of, 395–96, 407
clothes and blanket hidden at home of, 88, 105
confession of, 128–30, 131–32, 134–36, 145, 146–47, 161, 235–36
in Cook County jail, 228, 232, 247, 288, 340–41, 394–95, 405
in court, behavior, 240–41, 306, 332, 333
disguise, 95
disposal of body, 84–87
drops Leopold’s glasses, 87, 103
endocrinology of, 334
family history, 34
family’s disbelief about role in murder, 117–19, 138
fantasies of, 44–
46, 102–3, 256, 258, 308, 345, 347, 354, 264, 308, 346
finds Bobby Franks’s belt, 149
gambling of, 387
governess, relationship with, 34–36, 38–41, 42, 258, 308, 348
as homosexual, 380–83, 430–32
house (Ellis Avenue), 81, 88, 98, 118, 134, 138, 394
intelligence of, 34–36, 262, 318
in Joliet Prison, 406–9, 426–28
Judaism of, 42, 139, 140
kidnapping of Bobby Franks, 81–83, 85
lack of remorse, 147, 261, 290, 321, 324, 356
leads reporters to drugstore, 99–103
letter to “Mompsie and Popsie,” June
2, 1924, 227–28
linked to other crimes, 229–31
meets Leopold, 33–34, 315
as mentally diseased, 251, 267, 270, 305–38, 356–57, 364–69
metabolism of, 251, 254, 335
motive for murder, 91, 156–57, 158, 251, 327, 371, 372–74, 380–81, 385–88
murder of, 430–32, 447
murder of Bobby Franks and, 70, 71, 75–87, 89–90, 133, 142
murder of Bobby Franks, blames Leopold, 147–48, 156
murder of Bobby Franks, planning, 60–61, 62–65, 156–57
narcissism of, 44
passion for crime stories and detective fiction, 35, 44
perfect crime, desire to commit, 53, 60–61
personality, 37–38, 41, 139
plea of guilty, 282–88
plea of not guilty, 239–42
pseudonym of Louis Mason, 67–68
pseudonym of Morton D. Ballard, 66
psychiatric examination by prosecution, 151–61, 348–53
psychiatric examination by the defense, 251–64
purchases equipment for murder, 69–70
questioned at Criminal Court Building, 116–17
ransom plot and, 60–61, 63–65, 68, 87–88, 93–98, 156–57, 310
registers at Morrison Hotel, 66, 291
relationship with Leopold, 27, 41–46, 51–53, 58–60, 149, 259–60, 264, 310–11, 315–18, 440
relationship with Leopold, sexual, 52, 59–60, 315–18
retracing of steps on day of murder, 140–43
robbery of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, 56–58
secret life of destructive, antisocial behavior, 43–46, 53, 56–58, 59, 386–88
sentencing of, 399–403
sexuality of, 42, 258
smoking of, 28, 281
in Stateville prison, 428–32
studies of, 257
talks to reporter Krum, 148–49
thrill-seeking by, 44, 45, 53, 102
at University High School, 36–40
at University of Chicago, 34, 38, 40–41, 51, 62
at University of Michigan, 46–47, 50–51
wealth, 34, 233, 371, 373, 416, 430
women and, 42
Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, 47
Loeb, Thomas (brother), 34, 79, 80
Logan, John, 451
Long, Simon, 419
Los Angeles Times bombing, 180–82
Louisville Courier-Journal, 417
Lowhone, Frank, 300–302
Lucht, William, 19
Lueder, Alfred, 219–20
Lull, Richard Swann, 257
Lundin, Fred, 203–4, 205, 218–24
Darrow’s defense, 161, 221–24
trial of, 220–24
Lurie, Susan, 74
Lyell, Charles, 192
Mandel, Leon, 125–26
Mannow, Julius, 372
Maremont, Arnold, 27, 123, 439
Marshall, Louis, 418
Marshall, Thomas, 234, 240, 358, 361–65
Marshall, Thomas R., 320
Martin, Frank, 301
Martin, John Bartlow, 441
Martin, Wyndham, 35
Matchett, David, 206, 208
Mayer, Howard, 100–102, 103
Mayer, Levy, 171–72
McCall, William, 274
McCarthy, Daniel, 372
McCormick, Harry, 191
McCrea, John, 186
McDevitt, Harry, 320
McGagg, Albert, 362
McGurk, Frank, 359
McIntyre, John, 418
McNamara, John J. and Jim, 181–82
McNaughten rule, 154
McSwiggin, William, 425, 426
Medical Insanity Commission, 214
Medical Woman’s Club of Chicago, 186
Memphis Commercial Appeal, 416
mental illness
Argyll-Robertson pupil, 343–44
dementia praecox, 214, 250, 345, 356, 397
dementia simplex, 356
endocrinology and, 249–51
feeble-mindedness, 188, 249, 262
of Leopold and Loeb, 251, 267, 270, 305–38, 345–46, 356–57, 364–69, 397
manic depression, 250
melancholia, 250
neurology and, 264–65, 343–44
paranoia, 172, 250, 296, 306, 325–26, 366–67
psychoanalysis and psychoneurosis, 250, 265, 345
schizophrenia, 356, 368
senile dementia, 250
syphilis and, 200, 296, 351
Walter Bachrach on, 280
William Alanson White and concept of insanity, 266–67
Michael Strogoff (Verne), 35
Michigan Central train, 63, 64, 93–95, 97
Middleton, Agnes, 188
Milburn electric automobile, 43
Mills, William Yancy, 363
Miner, Stanley, 19
Minke, Tony, 10–11, 13
testimony before grand jury, 233
Mitchell, Mott Kirk, 16, 17–18, 107–8, 113
meets Leopold on day following murder, 98–99
Moore, J. J., 251
Moran, Mayer, and Meyer attorneys, 202
Morrison Hotel, Chicago, 66, 68, 291
motive for murder
as cover-up for crimes (Crowe theory), 385–88
Leopold statement on, 91
ransom as, 22–23, 91, 156–57, 385–88
as sex killing, 380–81
as thrill killing, 91, 99, 156, 158, 385
as thirst for knowledge, 148
as unclear and inexplicable, 156–58, 251, 327, 371, 372–74, 437
Motley, John Lothrop, 35
Moyer, Charles, 180
Moyer, Harold, 191
Moynihan, Patrick H., 220
Muirhead, Stan, 55
Mulroy, James, 12, 100–102, 103, 463
links Underwood to Leopold, 120
Murder by Numbers (film), 451
murder of Bobby Franks, 71, 75–87. See also motive for murder
blanket used in, 88, 104–5, 143
boys targeted by Leopold and Loeb, 68, 78–81
car used in, 65–68, 74, 76, 78, 81–83, 85–87, 91–93, 98, 127–30, 141, 291
cause of death, 11, 12, 234
clothes of Bobby Franks, 86, 88, 140, 143, 146, 149, 233, 290, 291
disposal of body, 84–87
eyeglasses as evidence in (see eyeglasses)
hydrochloric acid and, 11, 12, 17, 69–70, 86, 142
planning the murder, 60–65
weapon, 70, 75–76, 83–84, 89–90, 142 (see also murder weapon [chisel])
murder investigation, 15–26
alibis of Leopold and Loeb, 116–17, 119, 127–28
chauffeur’s testimony, 127–28
confessions of Leopold and Loeb, 131–43
drivers of gray Wintons questioned, 20
Ellis Avenue as site of abduction, 19, 23
evidence mounts against Leopold and Loeb, 119–26
evidence of sexual assault, 21, 382
eyeglasses and, 11, 12, 13, 20, 25–26, 87, 103, 104, 105, 110–11, 119, 131
gray Winton automobile sought, 19–21, 25
Harvard School teachers questioned, 16–18
Leopold and Loeb’s homosexuality and, 112, 119
Leopold questioned at Criminal Court Building, 112–17
Leopold questioned at Hotel LaSalle, 111
love letter from Leopold to Loeb found, 111–12, 117
motives sought, 21, 22–23
pedophiles sought, 21–22
police brutality and, 17, 18
ransom letter handwriting matches Leopold’s, 119
retracing of Leopold and Loeb’s steps on day of murder, 140–43
reward offered by family, 20
search of Leopold’s bedroom and study, 111–12
stains on corpse, 17
stalling of, 25
suspects (early), 16, 17–19, 113, 119
teachers’ alibis, 17
typewriter used in ransom letter, 16, 120–26
witness to the kidnapping, 19
murder weapon (chisel)
found by Bernard Hunt, 90
Loeb purchases, 70, 142
Loeb throws from car, 89–90
murder of Bobby Franks and, 83–84
stored at Leopold’s home, 75–76
Murray, George, 155
Murrow, Ed, 443
Myers, Johnston, 419
Nape, John, 211
Nash, Thomas, 296
National Security League, 183
Nervous and Mental Diseases (Church and Peterson), 155, 351–52
neurology, 264–65
medical testing, 350–51
roentgenology, 350–51
Never the Sinner (Logan), 451
Newark Evening News, 410–11
Newman, Art, 440
Newman, Ralph, 444
newspapers. See also specific newspapers advertising the clues in, 20
Chicago’s, 462–64
coverage of Leopold and Loeb hearing, 272
coverage of Leopold and Loeb as suspects, 117–19
coverage of retrieval of evidence, 146–50
Crowe and Darrow argue their case in, 272, 288–89
Crowe and the media, 213, 214, 217, 235–36
Crowe post-verdict statement to, 405–6
Crowe press conference after confessions, 136
Haymarket bombing case and, 169
Leopold and Loeb gossip to reporters, 147–50
Loeb leads reporters to drugstore, 99–103
reaction to Leopold and Loeb verdict, 410–20
relationship of police and journalists, 146–47
reporter from Chicago Daily News, 12
reporters and families of Leopold and Loeb, 138
statement of fathers in Leopold and Loeb case, 238–39
New York Evening Journal, 463
New York Sun, 396, 412–13
New York Times, 398, 411–12
New York World, 119
Nietzsche, Friedrich, vii, 52, 54, 106, 259, 325, 406
Nitze, William, 73
Northwestern University, 151, 152, 153, 155, 191, 339, 344, 346
Nothing But the Night (Yaffe), 450
Nottingham, Mack, 300–301
Oberndorf, Howard, 123, 124
O’Brien, James (Jimmy), 188, 200–201, 213