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Scene of the Crime

By Margaret Lyons in Miscellaneous on Aug 8, 2008 10:19PM


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The always awesome Kevin Guilfoile put together this map of the Leopold and Loeb case while reading the newly released For The Thrill Of It.

....it really struck me as I followed the geography of this case that, sensational as it was (and still is), this really was a neighborhood crime. The murderers lived within blocks of each other and Richard Loeb lived right across the street from their victim, Bobby Franks. (The fact that Kenwood is now Barack and Michelle Obama's neighborhood adds an irrelevant yet irresistible contemporary twist, of course.)

History has dwelt on the existential evil of the case, but the real horror of this particular Crime of the Century was a timeless one--the fear of the devil who lives next door.

And don't forget to enter the corrupt city contest. [The Outfit Collective]