Who is the smartest criminal in history? Why is he called that?

geekpranee (67)Memberin Sri Lanka-ශ්‍රී ලංකා • 2 years ago

The killer with 200 IQ.
Pictured above is 27-year-old Nathan Leopold, one half of the pair who killed a teenage boy.
Born in the winter of 1904, Nathan was dubbed a child prodigy the moment his first words passed his lips at four months old. As he grew older, he became fluent in five languages and by the time he was nineteen, he graduated with honors from the University of Chicago—the pinnacle of academic honor in the United States. In addition, he gained recognition in the field of ornithology.

Growing up, he got along well with another boy named Richard Loeb because they lived close to each other. Like Leopold, Loeb attended the same university. There were many other parallels between the two, as they were both born into wealthy families of Jewish heritage, and both were exceptional intellectuals.
Thanks to the supervision of a disciplined nanny, Loeb was able to skip several grades of school and enter the University of Chicago at fourteen, before transferring to the University of Michigan where he became its youngest graduate at 17.
Loeb, left with Leopold.
In their teenage years, they developed a mutual fascination with the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, particularly his concept of the Übermensch, the vision of the ideal, superior man. One who transcends mediocrity to create and impose his own superior version of morality on mankind. A super man.
The two friends were so intoxicated by the idea of these higher beings that they even believed they belonged to this precocious group, which meant they were not bound by the normal ethics and laws that governed mere mortals. In one of his letters to Leopold Loeb, he wrote:
"A superman . . . is freed from the ordinary laws which govern men by virtue of some superior quality in him. He is not responsible for anything he might do."
The two smart boys were the yin and the yang—Leopold was the introspective and academically greedy half of the two, while Loeb was the fun-loving and sociable half. As a result, they nurtured each other and formed a friendship that was strong enough to become sexually intimate.
The pair set out to put their philosophy into practice with a series of typically petty thefts and destructive low-level crimes. Emboldened by their successes, they rehearsed more serious misdeeds, including arson. It was not enough; The fact that the press paid no attention to the crimes did not quench their intense hunger for recognition.
Leopold and Loeb, now nineteen and eighteen years old respectively, decide to commit one of humanity's greatest sins: murder. They knew it would attract a lot of public attention, and it gave them the opportunity to prove their mettle by planning the "perfect crime." They spent seven months meticulously planning every detail, covering all the ground to ensure their success.
They decided to set up a ransom to obscure the real motive behind the crime and were given this letter with very specific and elaborate steps to follow, and then they only had to decide who their victim would be.
14 year old Bobby Franks.
Bobby is someone they both know, especially Loeb. After all, he was his second cousin, neighbor, and played tennis at his house several times.
On the fateful day, the men dragged him into the rental car and hit him several times on the head with a hoe, shortly after. Then, the boy was strangled and died shortly after. They took his body to a predetermined dump site twenty-five miles south of Chicago, stripped him, and to hide his identity, poured hydrochloric acid over his face and genitals, and then to hide the fact that the boy had been circumcised. A clear indication that he was a Jew.
They then pushed his dead body into a culvert and left.
They returned home, destroyed their bloody clothes, and cleaned the blood off the car's upholstery before spending the rest of the night playing cards. When they return home, little Bobby is reported missing, so they try to collect the ransom, but things go wrong when a nervous family member goes haywire. Soon after, the boy's body was found and the ransom was completely waived.
The pair destroyed any remaining evidence of the crime and went about their lives as normal. During this time, Loeb kept his head down, but Leopold, drunk with arrogance, spoke freely to reporters and detectives. He even told one detective:
"If I'm going to kill anybody, it's a little son of a hypocrite like Bobby Franks."
The wheels begin to fall off the wagon as a pair of glasses are found next to Bobby's body. Although the frames and prescription were completely normal, the hinges were very unusual - so much so that only three people in Chicago bought them, and Leopold was one of them. A from him