The Trial of Leopold & Loeb: Dickie & Babe
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The Trial of Leopold & Loeb: Dickie & Babe
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Narrated by:
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Full Cast
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Ben Devlin
About this listen
The true story that inspired Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.
In the summer of 1924, two brilliant young men set out to commit what they believed would be the perfect crime. The murder of fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks shocked Chicago and culminated in one of the most famous courtroom dramas of the twentieth century.
The Trial of Leopold & Loeb: Dickie & Babe presents this landmark case as a full-cast courtroom drama, constructed directly from trial transcripts, witness testimony, and contemporary reporting. The story unfolds entirely through dialogue and scene, allowing the voices of lawyers, witnesses, experts, and defendants to carry the narrative.
Performed by an ensemble cast and structured as a theatrical hearing rather than a conventional true-crime narration, this audiobook preserves the rhythm, tension, and moral complexity of the original proceedings.
More than a true-crime account, it is a study of ambition, cruelty, privilege, and persuasion — and of the courtroom itself as a stage on which justice, psychology, and public spectacle collide.
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