This week Erin tells us about Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two wealthy and highly intelligent Chicago teens who in 1924 kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a disastrous attempt to commit the so‑called “perfect crime.”

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche

https://homicide.northwestern.edu/crimes/leopold/

https://homicide.northwestern.edu/docs_fk/homicide/5866/LeopoldStatement.pdf

https://homicide.northwestern.edu/docs_fk/homicide/5866/LoebStatement.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb

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This week Stacey tells us about Mark Edward Middleton, an American businessman and lawyer from Little Rock who served as a special assistant and advisor to President Bill Clinton in the 1990s and later worked in his family’s HVAC business before his death in 2022.

Sources:

https://fism.tv/death-of-mark-middleton-clinton-advisor-linked-to-epstein-bizarrely-ruled-a-suicide/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Middleton_(businessman)

https://ruebelfuneralhome.com/obits/preview.php?id=3050&p=&search=

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_of_Bill_Clinton_and_Jeffrey_Epstein

https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2022/06/22/judge-seals-photos-of-mark-middleton-suicide

https://www.businessinsider.com/report-jeffrey-epstein-visited-white-house-under-bill-clinton-2019-7

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_campaign_finance_controversy

https://www.fec.gov/resources/legal-resources/enforcement/audits/1996/Title_26/BillClintonPres1996Primary.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/1999/May/213crm.htm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/11/14/a-bureaucrat-with-connections/2687a222-e535-48b8-a2eb-f1535e8dc20e/

https://www.congress.gov/105/crpt/hrpt829/CRPT-105hrpt829-vol2.pdf

https://www.congress.gov/106/crpt/hrpt1027/CRPT-106hrpt1027-vol1.pdf

https://www.usccr.gov/files/historical/1998/98-018.pdf

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2017/07/17/flashback-most-explosive-case-of-foreign-meddling-in-u-s-election-history-linked-to-clintons-the-democrats/

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2016/11/05/90s-clinton-scandal-figure-barred-from-u-s-still-giving-money-to-clintons/

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-11-16-mn-65315-story.html

https://www.congress.gov/committee-report/105th-congress/house-report/829/2

https://humanevents.com/2023/02/22/epstein-linked-clinton-adviser-allegedly-hanged-and-shot-himself

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This week Erin tells us about Lawrence Strempel, a Houston-area teen who in the early 1970s confessed to killing two young brothers, served roughly two years in a juvenile facility, and was then released at age 18.

Sources:

https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1967462/m1/1/

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrimeDiscussion/comments/15fonsz/lawrence_strempel_who_was_responsible_for_the/

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrime/comments/1jiel39/the_mutilation_murders_of_ronald_and_kenneth/

https://www.ancientfaces.com/person/lawrence-a-strempel-jr-birth-1958/104771588#memory-466546

https://www.ancientfaces.com/person/lawrence-a-strempel-jr-birth-1958/104771588

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