Casey Anthony Case Study

Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold were teenage boys who attempted to commit the perfect crime. On May 21, 1924, two wealthy, smart boys kidnapped 14 year old Bobby Franks. Nathan had graduated college and was in law school by the time he was 19 years old. While Richard was 17 when he graduated the University of Michigan. The teenagers had eventually become close friends and ‘lovers’, they soon began committing small acts of vandalism and crime. Eventually they decided to commit the ‘perfect crime’. Through this crime and other crimes, many theories were spoke upon. A new psychological malaise and books and movies are being blamed for certain crimes. The case of Leopold and Loeb made the public look at reasons why
The judge announced that Leopold and Loeb would have 99 years in prison for kidnapping, and the rest of their natural lives for murder. In the Casey Anthony case, the whole world knew that Casey murdered her daughter, but through long days in the court she got out innocent. This is the opposite of what happened to Leopold and Loeb. If the murder were to have gone cleanly without mistakes, their case may have ended like the Casey Anthony case. Because Leopold dropped his glasses in the culvert it left strong evidence that they were the killers. Another mistake was that the car Leopold claimed to be using the day of the murder, actually spent the entire day being repaired at home by his chauffeur. Without these mistakes the Leopold and Loeb case could have acted as the Casey Anthony case
Loeb's obsession for crime relates the Daniel Petric case, in 2010 Daniel’s parents took his favorite video game (Halo 3) away from him. This resulted in Daniel shooting his father in the head, and killing his mother. The reason of this killing must have been caused by his obsession with the shooting game, just like Loebs obsession with crime, and Leopolds obsession with Loeb. Loeb got so inspired by the books he had read about crime, that he needed to start himself. Murder was the most necessary element for Leopold and Loeb’s ‘perfect crime’. The fact that they wanted to commit crime just for the thrill of it, relates to the fictional character Tom Sawyer. Tom was stuck in a constant thought that crime was obligatory to enjoy life. Just as the real like Loeb and Leopold, he planned detailed crimes to achieve perfect crime. The plan to kidnap the son of wealthy parents, then to collect the ransom after it was thrown off a moving train was an idea that you would read in books. But Loeb and Leopold had the idea planted in their heads that this crime needed to be