I can't get enough of these audiobooks they are a brilliant and immersive experience. Leopold and Loeb (Dickie & Babe) were two affluent young men who lived in chicago in 1924. They were highly educated, intelligent and bizarrely decided to murder a 14 year old boy to see if it was possible to commit the perfect crime. The unfortunate victim has his face destroyed (in an attempt to hide his identity) by acid and his body stuffed in a drain. The two did not deny the crime, the trial was held in front of a judge in order to ascertain if the appropriate penalty should be death or a long term of imprisonment.......The trial comes alive on the audio, there is a first class narrator and a very colourful list of characters in particular prosecution and defence councils who theatrically use the courtroom to present their individual cases. I felt I was actually present as the proceedings progressed and look forward to further instalments in this brilliant series.
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