When you see some people or things that are not beautiful, or even rotten to the extreme, when you see angry pictures of child abuse, drunk driving, beating elderly parents, beating homeless people for no reason, etc., will your mind flash with such thoughts: "This group of scum, I really want to kill him or her, he (she) does not deserve to stay in the world!" ”
Of course, this is just a thought, in fact, many people can only be angry when they see some pictures that make them angry, because your heart will tell you that if you are nosy, you may be threatened with your life. Moreover, you do not have any right to end someone else's life, and you have no right to be sentenced to death. Another key point is that you have injured these scum out of justice, and your sentence is often not praise, but let you lose money. So you can only watch, can only let anger burn in your heart, and you can do nothing.
Although most people will not do anything, there are really people who will stand up and put an end to the insignificant dog life of some "social garbage".
In 1924, the "Leopold and Loeb Case" caused a sensation in the United States. In this case, two handsome teenagers who considered themselves eligible for execution were two handsome teenagers under the age of 20. They ruthlessly took the life of a 14-year-old boy as if it were as light as a feather. However, after the East Window incident, whether they should be executed or not is as heavy as Tarzan for the court.
Two promising young men, growing up in wealthy families, in addition to their handsome looks, the two have surprisingly high IQs. Nathan Leopold, then 19 years old, was born into an upper-class family. He could be said to be extremely intelligent, not only fluent in fifteen languages, but also an ornithologist, a mathematical genius, a philosophical thinker, and he regarded Nietzsche as an idol. At the age of 15, he was admitted to the University of Chicago with the best grades, and Harvard Law School reserved a place for him, hoping that he would join after graduation.
Richard Loeb, at the age of 18, was the youngest graduate ever from the University of Michigan. Coming from a wealthy family of lawyers, he was well educated from an early age, was in and out of high society with his parents, and was particularly fond of history and reading detective novels. After graduation, he enrolled at Chicago Law School.
The two have too many things in common: they are smart, have a good family, have a good education, and have a high appearance, just like the "life victory group". It's hard to imagine that such "five good boys" would commit murders, and they are not as interested in money or emotional disputes as other murderers. As for the reason why they killed people, it was to prove their superiority once and for all.
Leopold, who loved Nietzsche's philosophy, had his own views on philosophy, arguing that he belonged to the "superman" described in Nietzsche's philosophy. "Superman" must be above mortals, above all laws, and this identity gives him the ability to do whatever he wants, including killing.
As for Loeb, he has always been obsessed with the pursuit of "perfect murder". He was not fascinated by Nietzsche, he was fascinated by "art", the art of murder, the art of killing. And really killing a person, like an artist completing a creation, is incomparably beautiful. Two high-IQ teenagers met at the University of Chicago, and once they came into contact, the two became close friends who could not be separated from each other, and even "loved" each other. The two men's ideas intersected, and finally they came to a spark-filled conclusion that since we are geniuses and "supermen", we should practice a "perfect murder" together and kill the mediocre.
So who is "worthy" to be their own "work of art"? The two searched and searched in the crowd, and finally Mu se had a good choice, that is, 14-year-old Babi Frank. This is a young master in the family of a super rich tycoon, whose family controls the Chicago watch manufacturing industry, and for his family, Frank is the successor of the family, so he has redoubled his cultivation and care. In fact, Franks had known Loeb since childhood, and according to blood relations, they were still distant cousins, rich people often met together, the two always met, and many outings and tennis together.
But Loeb did not like him, thinking that he was a useless rich n generation, such a person who would not do anything good except waste food. Since this is the case, it is better to kill him.
At five o'clock in the afternoon of May 21, 1924, the "two-man murder group" rented a car under a pseudonym, and on the way they stopped Frank and asked him to go with him. Frank initially refused, but Loeb was not dead-hearted, and he coaxed Farrak into asking him to help identify a tennis racket. For tennis obsessed With Farak promised to get down and get into their car, he wouldn't have imagined that it would be his death trip. As for how Frank was killed, no one knew the truth except for the "two-man murder group", and all the sources of information were all in the police reasoning and the two men's defenses that did not know whether they were true or false.
Who killed Farrak? Most people tend to think that Leber did it, and he slammed frank hard with a pre-prepared iron hammer, causing the 14-year-old boy's skull to crack, then threw him in the back seat, and finally used a cloth to suppress Babi's cries and breathing until Frank stopped moving.
After Frank took a breath, the two men carried the body to Wolf Lake, forty kilometers south of Chicago. In case the body was recognized too quickly, they took Frank's clothes and destroyed them, corroded them with hydrochloric acid to destroy the appearance of the bodies, and then threw them into the drainage of the sewers. Then they drove for a ride and went to the bar for a drink. By the time the two returned to Chicago, news of Frank's disappearance had spread. The family frantically searched, but found nothing.
Just as Frank's family was about to go crazy, Leopold called Frank's house, answered by Frank's mother, Leopold, who identified himself as "George Johnson" and claimed that he had kidnapped Frank. The next day, the two sent a formal blackmail letter to Frank's house. The credit typewriter is beautiful and polite, and the steps of paying the ransom are delicately written on it, without the slightest intention of hiding their elite status.
Perhaps the blackmail letter of the two was too formal and courteous, so that the Frankish family once mistakenly thought it was a prank, and because the instructions for paying the ransom in the letter were too complicated, like a puzzle, the Frankish family once forgot what to do, and the payment was delayed.
Then, to the surprise of the "two-man murder group", Frank's body was found by passers-by the next day, and his identity was quickly confirmed. All this was completely unexpected by the two "elite supermen", who had to abandon the blackmail plan and do whatever they wanted as usual, without the slightest worry or fear.
Soon, detectives came to the door, because someone had witnessed Frank get into their car, so they became the prime suspects. In addition, the police also found a pair of glasses at the site of Farak's body dumping, which is not ordinary goods, but a high-end goods with extraordinary dignity, only rich people have this luxury, and the key glasses legs are engraved with a name - Leopold.
The two initially defended themselves in language that was extremely incomprehensible to the police, so full of philosophical theories that even the most experienced prosecutors listened to.
As for the glasses, Leopold said he lost them while catching birds in the wild. The two insisted that on the night Frank was killed, they drove Leopold's car for a ride and talked to two girls, but did not remember the names.
But this lie did not last long, leopold did not expect that his driver on the night frank was killed, did not tell him to send the car to repair, the lie of driving a ride is not self-defeating. I have to say that the two elites are really unlucky.
On May 31, 1924, ten days after the murder, two elite teenagers confessed to all the crimes they had committed, without the slightest remorse. Their families recruited the elite of the U.S. legal team, including the nationally acclaimed lawyer Clarence Danno, and even the jury was the elite of the elite.
In court, Leopold asked the judge on the spot: Why do people take this matter so seriously, and what is the difference between this and the entomologist stabbing a beetle to death with a pin? What's wrong with killing Frank, a "beetle" that has no effect on society?
Lawyer Clarence Danno, despite his conviction to exonerate them, was so arrogant that he defended themselves in court, which made the elite lawyers who defended them feel helpless.
Public opinion unanimously believes that the two men are selfish, cruel, and unrepentant, disregarding the lives of others, and should be sentenced to death. But Clarence Danno was such a magical figure that he defended the two for 12 hours and with impassioned defense. And at the end, he said: "It is not their own fault that these two talented teenagers committed a felony, and even if they are responsible, the death penalty is the worst way to do it!" ”
In the end, the case did not pass the jury, but was decided by judge John Kavili alone. Considering the age of the two accused, they should not be sentenced to capital punishment. Leopold and Loeb were sentenced to life in prison for murder and 99 years for kidnapping.
At this point, the case was officially concluded, the two did not appeal, and they did not even allow their families to appeal for them, because they were geniuses and did not need pity from others.
After being imprisoned, the two geniuses were locked up in different areas, afraid that after the two came into contact, they would engage in some "genius art". Loeb engages in "male-male relations" with his fellow inmates and is killed in the bathroom by a jealous fellow inmate. Leopold, on the other hand, was released on parole after 33 years in prison. In prison, he had separate cells, a "small stove," and even his own small movie theater. Occasionally he would hold a party and invite the rich inmates to join them, and these rich young masters would spend thousands of dollars, and the guards regarded them as the god of wealth. Try to satisfy as much as they want.
After Leopold's release from prison, he continued to enter and leave high society, not at all like a prisoner who had been in prison, but more like a polite gentleman. He completed his biography and, at the end, had a certain repentance for his behavior as a teenager.
Later, his confessions were made into various works, including Hitchcock's "Soul Reaper", and Leopold made a fortune just because of the copyright fee. I have to say, this guy is really a smart guy.
Text: Big Lion", "Strange Case Record"