Talk:Leopold and Loeb

Move to "The Murder of Bobby Franks"

"Leopold and Loeb puts too much attention on the killers.--200.148.9.103 (talk) 17:17, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Leopold and Loeb is overwhelmingly the way the case is remembered. See WP:COMMONNAME. EEng 05:41, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

gay relationship

I carefully read this article years ago and thought I was well informed by the case. Today though, I was blindsided by someone telling me Leopold and Loeb were gay. After doing a quick DuckDuckGo search, it seems that this information is plastered everywhere! Yet it is mentioned nowhere in the article except for one brief mention in the popular culture section at the very bottom in a description of Never the Sinner, John Logan's 1988 play, where "sexual relationship" is mentioned. Shame on me for relying on wikipedia. Why isn't this information in the article? As it is relevant for society's memory of this topic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:100D:B01D:6A82:8DF:64C4:5DD8:C95 (talk) 05:51, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

I think it's at least provisionally accepted today that they had a sexual relationship, but many or most of the high-quality treatments of the case were 50+ years ago, when such stuff was discussed less openly. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there was absolutely zero suggestion of it at the time of the crime and trial. But someone's play (or Hitchcock's post-coital smoke and subsequent pillow talk – "Let's stay this way for a minute ... Brandon, how did you feel ... during it?" "I don't remember feeling much of anything ... until his body went limp and I knew it was over ...") isn't enough; we need serious, scholarly sources discussing the evidence. EEng 07:17, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

"I wouldn't be at all surprised if there was absolutely zero suggestion of it at the time of the crime and trial." At the time of trial the Chicago Tribune stated that their association involved an element of "perversion" (meaning homosexuality). The Chicago Police certainly knew of their homosexuality owing to a letter found in Loeb's possession, and written by Leopold, in which Leopold refers to himself and Loeb as "cock-suckers." Also their sexual relationship was discussed at the trial, but "in camera," not in open court. 128.100.122.26 (talk) 16:59, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

I noticed the same omission. I don’t have time to make changes myself, but here’s a good reliable source that discusses it, for whoever decides to take it on: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/leopold-and-loebs-criminal-minds-996498/

— tooki (talk) 22:11, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

Mentioned here

Dr. Healy elaborated on this compact between the boys: "Leopold was to have the privilege of inserting his penis between Loebs' legs at special dates. At one time it was to be three times in two months if they continued their criminalistic activities together." https://web.archive.org/web/20140403053826/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/loeb/5g.html

--Post by someone

Sorry, we need more than crimelibrary.com. EEng 01:15, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Darrow's closing was _2_ hours, NOT 12 hours long

In the same article I quoted from above. 88.17.128.143 (talk) 01:42, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

I’m not sure which article that refers to, but all of the sources that I can find online say that it was twelve hours. --Elysdir (talk) 01:02, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Reading 20021 words aloud=average about 2 hours thirty-four minutes. 2603:7081:3207:1A00:E8EC:EF44:5700:58AC (talk) 19:06, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Scattered information?

Is the information in the sentence

"The intricate plan stalled almost immediately when a nervous family member forgot the address of the store where he was supposed to receive the next set of directions"

linked to the information in the sentence

"Loeb helped a couple reporter friends of his find the drug store he and Leopold had tried to send Jacob Franks to"

? Was Jacob Franks the "nervous family member"? Was the store, where the next directions were to be received, a "drug store"? If so, it should be stated accordingly in the first sentence above, otherwise it's kind of obscure what drug store Loeb helped to find in the latter sentence. Nakonana (talk) 22:37, 15 November 2023 (UTC)