Murder Comes Easy

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BRIEFING: Young criminals are common to all nations, but very few have become as infamous as Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two teenage youths from prominent Chicago families who, in 1924, killed the fourteen-year-old son of a millionaire businessman and then tried to demand $10,000 in ransom money. Because of their ages, both escaped the death penalty and went to prison for life. In Britain, the case of Derek Bentley and Christopher Craig, two teenagers who were involved in the murder of a policeman in 1952, became the subject of a highly controversial case-with Bentley, nineteen, being hanged though he had played no direct part in the violence, and Craig, sixteen, who had actually fired the gun, ‘detained at Her Majesty’s pleasure’ because he was under age.

THE STORY:

The whole thing was almost too easy. I had the lock open in about ten seconds, and all I used was a nail file. I stepped inside out of the cold, closed the door gently behind me, stood quietly with my back to it. I didn’t hurry. I eased the .45 out of my coat pocket and checked the clip. Then I shoved the clip home. It made a small click in the darkness of the foyer.

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