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335 - Leopold and Loeb: The Perfect Murder

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

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Do You Want to Be Victimized by Affluence?

Clarence Darrow's argument would be the early version of the affluenza defense made famous again in the case of 20 year old Ethan Couch who mowed down four people on a Texas road back in 2013. On June 15, 2013, if you don't remember, Couch lost control of his family's pickup truck after he and his friends been playing some beer pong and drinking some beer they stole from Walmart. He veered into a crowd of people, helping a driver whose car wasn't working on the side of the road. The crash killed the stranded motorists, a youth minister who stopped to help her and a mother and daughter who came out of their nearby home to help.

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