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Category: Richard Loeb

Fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks is abducted from a Chicago, Illinois neighborhood and murdered in what later proved to be one of the strangest murders in American criminal history. May 21, 1924.

May 21, 2024

1920s, Bobby Franks, Chicago, History Daily, Illinois, murder, Nathan Leopold, Richard Loeb

1920s, Bobby Franks, Chicago, History Daily, Illinois, murder, Nathan Leopold, Richard Loeb

Category: Richard Loeb

Fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks is abducted from a Chicago, Illinois neighborhood and murdered in what later proved to be one of the strangest murders in American criminal history. May 21, 1924.