This week, Andrew + Kirsten go back to Chicago in the Roaring ’20s and explore a now lesser-known crime—once described as “the crime of the century”—which has had a huge impact on pop culture over the last century.
Crime Scene + Other Locations
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Episode Sources
- The Great Migration – Causes, Significance & Effects – History.com
- Prohibition – History.com
- List of wars by death toll – Wikipedia
- World War I – Chicago History
- Roaring Twenties – Wikipedia
- Leopold and Loeb – Wikipedia
- The Lives and Legends of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold
- Search for New Thrills Motive, Slayers Assert – Chicago Tribune (June 1924)
- The Confession of Nathan Leopold
- In Nathan Leopold’s Own Words
- Friedrich Nietzsche – Wikipedia
- Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche – Wikipedia
- Ăśbermensch – Wikipedia
- Here Is The Highest Possible IQ And The People Who Hold The World Record
- Leopold and Loeb’s Perfect Crime Crime Magazine
- Leopold and Loeb’s Criminal Minds – Smithsonian Magazine
- Rope (play) – Wikipedia
- Rope (film) – Wikipedia
- Edgar Awards – Wikipedia
- Compulsion (Levin novel) – Wikipedia
- Meyer Levin – Wikipedia
- Compulsion (1959 film) – Wikipedia
- The Sinner (TV series) – Wikipedia
- Article Summary: “The Loeb and Leopold Case”
- Native Son – Wikipedia
- Murder by Numbers – Wikipedia
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