That's crazy talk
Pleading insanity. Or should that be bleeding insanity? Act I, Scene i Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb wanted to commit the perfect murder, to which end they murdered their cousin, Bobby, whose body was left in a storm drain. They tried to confuse the issue by sending off a ransom note which led the police straight to them. At their trial, their attorney, Clarence Darrow, described the trip to dispose of the body which was fraught with the likelihood of discovery along every step of the way. Darrow was trying to show that the boys were less responsible for their crime on the grounds of insanity. If I’d been a member of the jury, I might’ve suspected that they were stupid in the way they went about disposing of their victim’s body, but exceptionally lucky not to have been detected sooner. I might’ve regarded their behaviour as irrational, but I don’t believe that someone has to be mad to be irrational (although it may help). I would argue, on the other hand, that adolescents (which the ...