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| What are the full names of Sacco and Vanzetti? |
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| Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti |
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| Who were Sacco and Vanzetti and what were they charged for? |
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| Two Italian-born American laborers and anarchists who were charged, tried, convicted, and executed by electric chair for armed robbery and the murder of Frederick Parmenter, a paymaster, and Alessandro Berardelli, a security guard on April 15th, 1920 |
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| Where did the victims work? |
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| Who were Sacco and Vanzetti supposedly adherents of? |
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| Luigi Galleani-head of a radical anarchist movement |
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| Where were S and V arrested? |
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| Who was the judge in their trial and what was he accused of? |
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| Judge Webster Thayer, accused of being highly prejudice towards the two men and of allowing anti-Italian/anti-anarchist/anti-immigrant prejudice to sway the jury |
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| What did S and V do for a living? |
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| Sacco was a shoemaker and Vanzetti was a fishmonger |
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| Why were S and V arrested? |
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| They came to pick up a car of the chief bomb maker of the Gealleanists, Mario Buda, which was suspected to be used in the robbery-murder |
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| What did Sacco use as an alibi and did Vanzetti have an alibi? |
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| Who were Leopold and Loeb? |
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| Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. and Richard A. Loeb were two wealthy college students |
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| What were L and L charged for? |
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| Murdering 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924 |
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| Why did L and L kill Bobby Franks? |
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| Thrill of the kill, desire to commit the perfect crime |
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| Why did L and L choose Franks as the victim? |
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| He was wealthy so they could get a ransom and he knew Loeb so he would get in the car |
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| Who was L and L's lawyer? |
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| Kenwood in South Side of Chicago |
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| When did L and L commit the murder? |
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| How did L and L commit the murder? |
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| they lured Franks into a rented car. They then struck Franks with a chisel and stuffed a sock into his mouth. Franks died shortly after |
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| Where did L and L leave the body? |
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| Wolf Lake in Hammond, Indiana |
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| What did L and L use to make Franks' body unrecognizable? |
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| Where did L and L finally dispose of the body? |
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| In a septic tank at the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks north of Wolf Lake |
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| Tony Mike, a Polish immigrant |
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| What evidence was found near Franks' body? |
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| A pair of specially hinged glasses made of xylonite that only 3 people in Chicago had purchased, one of which was Leopold |
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| What did L and L use as their alibi? |
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| Leopold told the police he had lost his glasses while bird watching and Loeb told the police Leopold was with him on the night of the murder. They said they had picked up two women in Leopold’s car and left them later at a golf course, never learning their last names |
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| What messed up L and L's alibi? |
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| Leopold’s car had been being repaired by his chauffer that night, and the chauffeur’s wife confirmed that the car had been in Leopold’s garage |
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| What did L and L plead in their trial and why? |
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| Guilty in order to avoid the death sentence |
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| What were L and L sentenced to? |
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| Life in prison for the murder plus 99 years for the kidnapping |
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| He was killed in prison by fellow inmate James E. Day who claimed Loeb had tried to sexually assualt him |
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| He was released from prison on parole after 33 years, mastered 27 languages, moved to Puerto Rico and was known as Nate, married a widowed florist and died of cancer on August 29, 1971 at age 66 |
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