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Brilliant Police Work in Franks Case Delivers Confessions
The investigation centers on Leopold and Loeb who confessed after police traced the crime to the pair. Witnesses described the planned abductio n and murder of Bobby Franks, the ransom scheme, and the disposal of evidence, including a stolen typewriter found in a lagoon.
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Franks
Leopold
Loeb
Sven Englund
Willys Knight
Leed
Harvard
John Levinson
Julius Rosenwald
Sears Roebuck & Co
Bobby Franks
Bobby
House of the Fraternity
University of Michigan
Jackson Park
Mr. Franks
New York
Clarence
Darrow
Walter
Benjamin Bachrach
Cook County
Grand Jury
Ilinois
John R. Caverly
Criminal Courts
Bernard Glueck
H. 8. Hulbert
Chicago