LEOPOLD & LOEB: Great Crimes & Trials TV - Chicago Daily Tribune - In Search of History TV - American Experience: The Perfect Crime 2016 -
1924, Chicago: The brash self-confidence of the city was to be dented by events in one of the richest suburbs which shattered the lives of three of its wealthiest and most respected families. Great Crimes & Trials: Leopold & Loeb s3e21, BBC 1996
The naked body of a boy. The police were fetched and they searched the area for any clothing or other clues ... Bobby [Franks] had wounds on the head and appeared to have been asphyxiated. ibid.
The apparently senseless killing of a 14-year-old boy caused widespread revulsion. ibid.
19-year-old Nathaniel Leopold was the son of one of the best known millionaires in Chicago. ibid.
The next day police brought in Richard Loeb: he agreed he had been out with Nathaniel Leopold but claimed to have gone home without meeting any girls. ibid.
Richard Loeb cracked within minutes, and during the early hours of the morning he made a full confession, claiming that Leopold had actually killed Franks. ibid.
The privileged sons of two of the city’s richest families had made a full confession to an appalling, callous and motiveless killing. Each boy tried to pin greater responsibility on the other. ibid.
Both agreed it would provide the ultimate thrill and show their superiority over the common mass of people. ibid.
The boys had spent months planning the killing. ibid.
They were given life sentences for the murder. ibid.
Slayers ‘King And Slave’: Loeb Master of Leopold Under Solemn Pact Made; Sex Inferiority Is Factor. Chicago Daily Tribune front page
It was the crime of the century, America’s first thrill killing. And no-one understood why they did it. Nathan Leopold & Richard Leob had it all: they were young, rich, they were brilliant. But just beneath the polished surface of these two gifted young men lurked a compulsion, an obsession. In Search of History s3e16: Leopold & Loeb: Born Killers, History 1998
Leopold and Loeb were utterly indifferent over exactly which innocent boy they were going to murder. ibid.
Just ten days after the killing Loeb provided [Robert] Crowe with a detailed confession of the murder. ibid.
They were bound by a sexual relationship; they shared a belief that they were superior to the moral norm. ibid.
LEPKE, LOUIS aka LEPKE BUCHALTER: Mobsters TV -
Among the giants of organised crime in the 1930 Lepke Buchalter [aka Louis Lepke] quietly built a fortune on the backs of an army of workers, and created the marriage between corruption and labor unions in America. Then the Mob double-crossed him. Mobsters s1e3: Louis Lepke, Bio 2007
He stepped out of Sing Sing just as Americans were getting used to a new word in their vocabulary – Prohibition. ibid.
The future was not breaking heads on the picket line but in dominating the unions themselves. ibid.
His men simply came into their union headquarters with guns drawn and opened fire. When the shooting was over, a dozen were dead, and Lepke had another union under his belt. ibid.
He planned nothing less than a murder spree to kill every witness that might testify against him. ibid.
Lepke and his associates were found guilty of murder. ibid.
LEPPERT, MORGAN & TOBY LEE LOWRY: Susanna Reid: Children Who Kill TV -
Morgan Leppert was sentenced to life without parole for a murder committed when she was just 15. Morgan was arrested, along with her boyfriend, after a 66-year-old disabled man James Stewart was found beaten, stabbed and suffocated in his Florida home. Susanna Reid, Children Who Kill s1e1: Josh Phillips, ITV 2018
LESTOURGEON, ROBERT et al: How I Caught the Killer TV -
A young athlete is shot dead on the street … ‘a drive by shooting’ … Sulu Palega … ‘a gentle giant’ … There didn’t seem to be any obvious motive as to why these three men had been targeted. How I Caught the Killer s1e9: Drive By Shooting, Sky Crime 2018
The team had now found their suspect. A picture was emerging of Bobby’s life and why he was in Medesto the night of Sulu’s shooting. ibid.
‘The shooting was done because it was a mistaken identity.’ ibid. rozzer
LETBY, LUCY: Panorama: Lucy Letby: The Nurse Who Killed TV - Channel 4 News - After Lucy Letby: Silence on the Wards TV - Lucy Letby: The New Evidence TV -
A nurse had been convicted of murdering babies. So what turned Lucy Letby into a serial killer? Panorama: Lucy Letby: The Nurse Who Killed, BBC 2023
The doctor who tried to raise the alarm … Doctor’s couldn’t find a medical connection between the deaths. But in all five cases, Lucy Letby was on duty. ibid.
It wasn’t just the five unexpected deaths that were creating suspicion. Another five babies almost died on the unit in unusual circumstances over the same period. Lucy Letby was present each time. Then, in February 2016, a consultant says he saw her standing and watching when a baby seemed to have stopped breathing. ibid.
‘There’s no communication from senior managers in the Trust.’ ibid. senior consultant
He [senior consultant] asked her [senior manager] to stop Lucy Letby working. The manager refused. ibid.
She was finally removed from the neonatal unit three weeks later. The suspicious incidents stopped. ibid.
She’s been jailed for murdering babies. But some experts same her convictions are unsafe. We investigate the controversy over the Lucy Letby case. Panorama: Lucy Letby: Unanswered Questions, Judith Moritz reporting, BBC 2024
We reveal new evidence of other possible crimes. ibid.
It’s a case that divides opinion like few others. ibid.
Lucy Letby didn’t have any medical experts supporting her case. ibid.
Why would she? Why would a nurse whose job it was to care for babies murder and harm them in the hospital where she worked? Channel 4 news report August 2023
Should she have been stopped sooner? ibid.
After Lucy Letby why is there silence on the wards? Nationwide record NHS pressures are taking their toll on staff and patients. So why are doctors punished for raising concerns? Tonight: After Lucy Letby: Silence on the Wards? ITV 2023
Lucy Letby is beginning the 80th night of her prison sentence for murdering and harming babies. She will die behind bars. For months doctors at the hospital say they warned managers of her behaviour. ibid.
‘This was a cruel, calculation and cynical campaign of child murder.’ Lucy Letby: The New Evidence, judge’s summing up, Channel 5 2024
The case of Lucy Letby has become one of the most controversial of modern times. Convicted of killing seven babies and attempting to kill seven more, Lucy Letby will die in prison. But doubts about the case against her are not going away. And what started as the voice of a few experts has become a campaign to have her case reviewed by the highest courts in the land. ibid.
Shocking new evidence continues to emerge about a case that once seemed clear-cut. ibid.
We made mistakes over Lucy Letby evidence, admits CPS: Door swipe data ‘vital’ to showing which nurses could have been on ward were incorrect. ibid. The Telegraph online August 2024
Information from a whistleblower has revealed that a deadly superbug was present in the unit at this very time. ibid.
Frequent drainage problems which included foul water backing up in hand-wash-basins in the intensive care suite. ibid.
The hospital did have an outbreak of a deadly bacteria at the time. ibid.