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335 - Leopold and Loeb: The Perfect Murder

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

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The Frank's Murder

In the early 1950s, author Meyer Levin requested Leopold's cooperation and write in a novel based on the Frank's murder. In 1959, the book would be made into a film starring Orson Welles, playing a fictionalized version of Clarence Darrow. After 33 years and numerous unsuccessful petitions, Leopold was paroled in March 1958. By this time, he was in poor health, suffering from rheumatism, diabetes, kidney trouble, and a heart ailment. He had been forbidden as a conditioner parole to deal with the media. The Brethren Surface Commission accepted him as a medical technician at his hospital in Puerto Rico. Having resumed his interest in birds

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