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Fleming, Candace, Murder Among Friends. Anne Schwartze Brooks, Chicago, March 29th 2022

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By Candace Fleming

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I chose to read this book because it seemed like an interesting book and I like reading true crime.

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Fleming, Candace, Murder Among Friends. Anne Schwartze Brooks, Chicago, March 29th 2022

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Richard Loeb is a rich man who always fantasized about murder and committing crime. Him and Nathan Leopold both were involved in attempting to commit the “perfect crime”.

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Fleming, Candace, Murder Among Friends. Anne Schwartze Brooks, Chicago, March 29th 2022

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A smart rich man who is secretly homosexual. Nathan is best friends with Richard Loeb, and both attempt to commit what would be the “Perfect crime”

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Bobby Franks was the little boy who Richard and Nathan chose to murder. Bobby and Richard were neighbors and rumored to be second cousins.

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When 2 men went fishing they found Bobby’s body in the river. When cops came to investigate they found a pair of round reading glasses. They were Nathans glasses that fell out of his suit pocket when committing the murder.

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People who watched the court case with Nathan and Richard hoped that the two boys would be hung for committing murder. After a few long months of debate the judge decided on giving each boy a life sentence along with 99 years in jail for murder and kidnapping.

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This story takes place in the early 1920’s in Chicago. In this time period kids were trusted to walk around and get themselves places. They did not rely on their parents as much as kids do now.

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Bobby Frank was murder in Chicago in 1924. Nathan and Richard had dumped his body near the place where Nathan goes to bird hunt.

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A lesson that the author wants readers to take away is that sometimes the people you lest expect are the ones who can hurt you the most. Nathan and Richard were two boys that no one expected because of their wealth and academic success.

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The author used ethos by doing lots of research and giving credibility to all the sources she used in the book.

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The author would add a page break when things started to get interesting and intense. This made people want to read more and more into the book to find out what happens next. She also talked about hoe Nathan started to miss Richard after he passes away and what Nathan regretted in life.

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Shoe went into details about how the boys minds work when they were being tested by physiologists.

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”By afternoon’s end the teenagers would have kidnapped and killed a boy. And no one but the two of them, they believed, would ever know what had really happened.” Pg 67

Fleming, Candace, Murder Among Friends. Anne Schwartze Brooks, Chicago, March 29th 2022

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I chose this song because it talks about the darkness that hides within people. This fits Loeb and Leopold because they were smart and privileged, but were capable of evil.

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Imagine Dragons- Demons, ImagineDragons, YouTube, May 7th 2013. Online. April 24th 2025

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Imagine Dragons - Demons (Official Music Video)

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Leopold and Loeb.whomurderedrobertwon. YouTube. 2011.Online. April 24th 2025

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Fleming, Candace, Murder Among Friends, Anne Schwartze Brooks, Chicago, March 29th 2022

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Fleming, Candace, Murder Among Friends, Anne Schwartze Brooks, Chicago, March 29th 2022

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Fleming, Candace, Murder Among Friends, Anne Schwartze Brooks, Chicago, March 29th 2022