The Perfect Crime
Clarence Darrow (James Cromwell, audio): : No one knows what will be the fate of the child they get or the child they bear...
克拉伦斯·达罗（詹姆斯·克伦威尔，音频）：：没有人知道他们得到的孩子或他们所生的孩子的命运是什么......
The mother who looks into the blue eyes of her little babe cannot help but wonder what will be the end of this child, whether it will be crowned with the greatest promises which her mind can imagine, or whether he may meet death from the gallows.
母亲看着她小宝贝的蓝眼睛，不禁想知道这个孩子的结局是什么，他是否会得到她心灵所能想象到的最伟大的承诺，或者他是否会被绞死。
-Clarence Darrow
——克拉伦斯·达罗
Narrator: : The body was found on the morning of May 22nd, 1924; a 14-year-old boy named Bobby Franks, who'd gone missing from his Chicago neighborhood the day before.
旁白：：尸体于1924年5月22日上午被发现；一个名叫鲍比·弗兰克斯 (Bobby Franks) 的 14 岁男孩，前一天在芝加哥社区失踪。
A ransom note had been sent to his parents, but before they'd had a chance to pay, the kidnappers had killed their son.
勒索信已寄给他的父母，但他们还没来得及付款，绑匪就杀了他们的儿子。
John Logan, Playwright: : The crime itself was so shocking.
剧作家约翰·洛根：犯罪本身是如此令人震惊。
They bludgeoned a child to death, poured acid on his face to try to disguise his features.
他们用棍棒打死了一名儿童，并向他的脸上泼酸，试图掩盖他的面容。
He was stripped of his clothes and left in a culvert.
他被剥光衣服，扔进涵洞里。
It was as desolate a place as you could possibly imagine leaving a body.
这是一个你所能想象到的荒凉之地。
Narrator: : The murder would rivet the nation, all the more so when police at last caught the killers: Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb -- wealthy, well-educated teenagers, who had done it, they said, for the sheer thrill.
旁白：这起谋杀案将引起全国的关注，尤其是当警方最终抓获凶手时更是如此：内森·利奥波德和理查德·勒布是富有、受过良好教育的青少年，他们说，他们这么做纯粹是为了寻求刺激。
Paula Fass, Historian: : This was an inexplicable murder.
历史学家保拉·法斯：：这是一起莫名其妙的谋杀案。
These were children of privilege, of high ideals, who had everything given to them.
这些都是享有特权的孩子，有着崇高的理想，他们拥有一切。
John Logan, Playwright: : They were the last people who had any reason to commit a kidnapping, much less a murder.
剧作家约翰·洛根：他们是最后一批有理由实施绑架的人，更不用说谋杀了。
Narrator: : As the case unfolded over that hot summer of 1924 -- with Cook County Prosecutor Robert Crowe and famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow debating the death penalty and scores of commentators weighing in from the sidelines -- the question of motive would be turned over and over again.
旁白：随着案件在 1924 年那个炎热的夏天展开——库克县检察官罗伯特·克罗和著名辩护律师克拉伦斯·达罗就死刑问题展开辩论，数十名评论员在场外发表意见——动机问题将被反复讨论。
And what at first seemed a simple matter of evil gradually would give way to a complex assessment of the murderers' minds, and a searing indictment of the forces that had shaped them.
起初看似简单的邪恶问题逐渐被对凶手思想的复杂评估以及对塑造他们的力量的强烈控诉所取代。
Simon Baatz, Historian: : I think that the murder said something to people about American society.
历史学家西蒙·巴茨：我认为这起谋杀案向人们讲述了美国社会的一些情况。
This was seen as a culmination of trends that were dangerous, that were immoral.
这被视为危险、不道德的趋势的顶峰。
John A.
约翰·A.
Farrell, Writer: : So you had all of a sudden this question thrown up against our culture which is that, is it rotten?
作家法雷尔：所以你突然对我们的文化提出了这个问题，那就是，它腐烂了吗？
Is there something wrong?
有什么问题吗？
Are we going in the wrong direction?
我们是否走错了方向？
Paula Fass, Historian: : There are mysteries wrapped inside of enigmas in this case and it's why it won't go away.
历史学家保拉·法斯 (Paula Fass)：：在这个案件中，谜团之中隐藏着许多谜团，这也是它不会消失的原因。
Narrator: : On May 22nd, 1924, just hours after the body of Bobby Franks was found, the hunt for his killers got underway.
旁白：1924 年 5 月 22 日，鲍比·弗兰克斯的尸体被发现几小时后，追捕凶手的行动就开始了。
To State's Attorney Robert Crowe -- a combative, 45-year-old Irishman who'd been elected on a promise to vanquish crime in Chicago -- the case was a career-making opportunity.
对于州检察官罗伯特·克罗（Robert Crowe）来说，他是一位好斗的 45 岁爱尔兰人，他因承诺消灭芝加哥的犯罪而当选，对于他来说，此案是一个职业发展机会。
Simon Baatz, Historian: : Robert Crowe was very politically ambitious, and his ambition was eventually to become mayor of Chicago, to become one of the most powerful men in the city.
历史学家西蒙·巴茨（Simon Baatz）：罗伯特·克罗在政治上非常雄心勃勃，他的野心最终是成为芝加哥市长，成为该市最有权势的人之一。
Crowe had certainly hoped that a success in this case would help him as a politician.
克罗当然希望此案的成功能够帮助他成为一名政治家。
Narrator: : The police had few clues: the ransom note, a tip about a grey sedan that had been idling where Bobby Franks was last seen, and a pair of eyeglasses found near the body.
旁白：警方掌握的线索很少：勒索信、有关一辆灰色轿车在鲍比·弗兰克斯最后一次出现的地方闲置的线索，以及在尸体附近发现的一副眼镜。
Hal Higdon, Writer: : When the glasses first were found, it was thought that they were Bobby Franks' glasses, they were even put on the corpse in the funeral home.
哈尔·希格登（Hal Higdon），编剧：：当眼镜第一次被发现时，人们认为它们是鲍比·弗兰克斯的眼镜，甚至在殡仪馆里也被戴在尸体上。
And when his relative came in to identify the body he said, "Well, those aren't his glasses." And at that point they thought, well, they must be the glasses of one of the criminals.
当他的亲戚进来辨认尸体时，他说：“好吧，那不是他的眼镜。”那时他们想，好吧，它们一定是其中一名罪犯的眼镜。
Simon Baatz, Historian: : The prescription was actually a very average one.
历史学家西蒙·巴茨 (Simon Baatz)：：这个处方实际上是一个非常普通的处方。
What was unusual about the eyeglasses is that they had a certain hinge, and when the police began to inquire they found that only three pairs of eyeglasses with that hinge had been sold in the Chicago district.
这副眼镜的不同寻常之处在于它们有一个铰链，当警方开始调查时，他们发现芝加哥地区只售出了三副带有该铰链的眼镜。
Narrator: : One of the three belonged to a man who'd been abroad for weeks, another to a woman who was quickly ruled out as a suspect.
旁白：：三件物品中的一件属于一名出国数周的男子，另一件属于一名女子，但很快就被排除为嫌疑人。
That left 19-year-old Nathan Leopold, from the exclusive neighborhood of Kenwood, on Chicago's South Side.
19 岁的内森·利奥波德 (Nathan Leopold) 就这样离开了，他来自芝加哥南区肯伍德 (Kenwood) 的高档社区。
Although it seemed doubtful that the boy had had any hand in the murder, Crowe sent three detectives to the Leopold home with orders to bring Nathan in for questioning.
尽管似乎怀疑男孩是否参与了谋杀案，克罗还是派了三名侦探到利奥波德家，并命令将内森带进来接受审问。
Paula Fass, Historian: : Nathan Leopold was studying for law school.
保拉·法斯 (Paula Fass)，历史学家：：内森·利奥波德 (Nathan Leopold) 正在法学院学习。
He was an extraordinary young man with a potentially fantastic future before him.
他是一位非凡的年轻人，有着美好的未来。
Simon Baatz, Historian: : Nathan Leopold was not regarded as a likely suspect simply because his family was very prominent.
历史学家西蒙·巴茨 (Simon Baatz)：：内森·利奥波德 (Nathan Leopold) 并没有仅仅因为他的家族非常显赫而被视为可能的嫌疑人。
By 1924 the family was worth about $4 million.
到 1924 年，这个家庭的资产约为 400 万美元。
Why would someone like Nathan Leopold want to kidnap a young child?
为什么像内森·利奥波德这样的人想要绑架一个小孩？
It didn't seem to make any sense.
这似乎没有任何意义。
Narrator: : Crowe would spend the rest of the afternoon and long into the night downtown interrogating Nathan Leopold.
旁白：克罗会在下午剩下的时间里，一直到深夜，在市中心审问内森·利奥波德。
When confronted with the eyeglasses, the young man shrugged.
当面对那副眼镜时，年轻人耸了耸肩。
He was a recognized expert on birds, he boasted to Crowe, the author of an article about the rare Kirtland's Warbler.
他向克罗夸耀说，他是一位公认的鸟类专家，克罗是一篇关于稀有科特兰莺的文章的作者。
He frequently led birding expeditions near the place Franks' body had been found.
他经常在弗兰克斯尸体被发现的地方附近进行观鸟探险。
The glasses, he said, must have fallen at some point from his jacket pocket.
他说，眼镜一定是在某个时候从他夹克口袋里掉下来的。
As for the night of Franks' murder, he'd spent it driving around town in his red Willys-Knight with his good friend Richard Loeb.
至于弗兰克斯被谋杀的那天晚上，他和他的好朋友理查德·勒布开着他的红色威利斯骑士在城里转悠。
Hal Higdon, Writer: : Leopold's alibi was that he and Loeb had gone off in the park, started drinking, picked up a couple of girls, fooled around with them a little bit.
哈尔·希格登（Hal Higdon），编剧：利奥波德的不在场证明是，他和勒布在公园里出去，开始喝酒，认识了几个女孩，和她们玩了一会儿。
Simon Baatz, Historian: : Those two girls that they did pick up refused to have sex with them so they dropped them off, and then they continued home.
西蒙·巴茨（Simon Baatz），历史学家：：他们接的那两个女孩拒绝与他们发生性关系，所以他们把她们送走，然后继续回家。
That was the alibi they had.
这就是他们的不在场证据。
Narrator: : While Crowe interrogated Leopold, police ransacked his bedroom and study -- and turned up a letter to Richard Loeb, which suggested the boys were lovers.
旁白：克罗审问利奥波德时，警察搜查了他的卧室和书房，并发现了一封写给理查德·勒布的信，信中暗示这两个男孩是恋人。
Crowe found it odd: if Leopold and Loeb were homosexuals, why would they have spent an evening chasing girls?
克罗觉得很奇怪：如果利奥波德和勒布是同性恋，他们为什么要花一个晚上去追女孩？
Now, he wanted Richard Loeb brought in for questioning as well.
现在，他希望理查德·勒布也被带进来接受审问。
Simon Baatz, Historian: : Richard Loeb graduated from high school when he was 14 years old and immediately matriculated at the University of Chicago as a full time student.
历史学家西蒙·巴茨 (Simon Baatz)：理查德·勒布 (Richard Loeb) 14 岁时高中毕业，并立即被芝加哥大学录取为全日制学生。
He was very popular as a student.
他作为学生很受欢迎。
Richard Loeb's father was the vice-president of Sears Roebuck.
理查德·勒布的父亲是西尔斯·罗巴克公司的副总裁。
He was worth about $10 million by 1924.
到 1924 年，他的身价约为 1000 万美元。
Narrator: : Loeb corroborated his friend's alibi.
旁白：：勒布证实了他朋友的不在场证据。
Still, Crowe felt there was something suspicious about these young men.
尽管如此，克罗还是觉得这些年轻人有些可疑。
So long as their parents were cooperating, certain that their sons had been involved in no wrongdoing, Crowe planned to keep Leopold and Loeb in custody.
只要他们的父母配合，并确信他们的儿子没有参与任何不当行为，克罗计划继续拘留利奥波德和勒布。
Meanwhile, the circumstantial evidence was mounting.
与此同时，间接证据正在不断增加。
The handwriting on the ransom note's envelope matched Nathan Leopold's, and the note itself had been linked to a typewriter he owned.
赎金信封上的笔迹与内森·利奥波德的字迹相符，而且赎金信本身也与他拥有的一台打字机相关联。
Then, the Leopold family's chauffeur showed up at Crowe's office.
然后，利奥波德家族的司机出现在克罗的办公室。
He'd been sent by Nathan's father with information Mr. Leopold was sure proved the boys' innocence.
内森的父亲派他来提供利奥波德先生确信可以证明孩子们清白的信息。
The two could not have been anywhere near the place the body was left, the chauffeur said, because on the day in question, Nathan's car was being worked on in the garage.
司机说，这两个人不可能在尸体放置的地方附近，因为当天内森的车正在车库里修理。
Certain now that the boys' alibi was a lie, Crowe ramped up the pressure.
克劳确信男孩们的不在场证据是谎言，于是加大了压力。
Paula Fass, Historian: : They had been left in rooms by themselves under drilling for 24 hours.
历史学家保拉·法斯 (Paula Fass)：：他们被单独留在房间里进行钻探，长达 24 小时。
This was a pinning down of these guys, and everything pointed to them.
这是对这些家伙的牵制，一切都指向他们。
Simon Baatz, Historian: : The two boys were originally held separately in separate rooms, and Robert Crowe first went to Richard.
历史学家西蒙·巴茨（Simon Baatz）：：这两个男孩最初被分别关押在不同的房间里，罗伯特·克罗首先去找理查德。
Richard confessed and then gave Crowe details that only the murderers could have known.
理查德承认了这一点，然后向克罗提供了只有凶手才知道的细节。
Crowe takes those details to Nathan and Nathan realizes that Richard is confessing, and then immediately Nathan also starts confessing but blaming everything on Richard.
克罗将这些细节告诉了内森，内森意识到理查德正在坦白，然后内森也立即开始坦白，但将一切都归咎于理查德。
So Richard is blaming Nathan, Nathan is blaming Richard.
所以理查德在责怪内森，内森也在责怪理查德。
Narrator: : The crime, both boys admitted, had been months in the planning -- and they'd had every expectation of getting away with it.
旁白：两个男孩都承认，这起犯罪事件已经策划了几个月——他们本来就希望能够逃脱惩罚。
Simon Baatz, Historian: : The intention was always to murder from the very beginning.
西蒙·巴茨（Simon Baatz），历史学家：：从一开始的意图就是谋杀。
It was all part of the plan to commit the perfect crime.
这都是实施完美犯罪计划的一部分。
To do this crime that would be sensational, and to get away with getting the ransom, that was the intention.
犯下这种耸人听闻的罪行，然后拿到赎金后就可以逃脱惩罚，这就是目的。
Narrator: : As a police stenographer took down their words, first Loeb then Leopold described how they'd rented a car under an assumed name to use on the day of the murder, and typed out the ransom note even before they chose their victim.
旁白：：警察速记员记下他们的话后，先是勒布，然后是利奥波德描述了他们如何以化名租了一辆汽车，以便在谋杀当天使用，甚至在选择受害者之前就打出了赎金字条。
Hal Higdon, Writer: : The afternoon of the crime, they were rolling around the neighborhood in their rental car looking for a victim.
哈尔·希格登 (Hal Higdon)，作家： 案发当天下午，他们开着租来的车在附近寻找受害者。
Literally looking for a victim.
顾名思义就是寻找受害者。
Simon Baatz, Historian: : And suddenly on the other side of the street they saw Bobby Franks who was the cousin of Richard Loeb.
历史学家西蒙·巴茨 (Simon Baatz)：：突然，他们在街道的另一边看到了鲍比·弗兰克斯 (Bobby Franks)，他是理查德·勒布 (Richard Loeb) 的表弟。
They drive up behind Bobby Franks.
他们把车开到鲍比·弗兰克斯后面。
Richard, who is sitting in the back seat, invites Bobby into the front seat and then as soon as Bobby is inside the car the murder takes place almost immediately.
坐在后座的理查德邀请鲍比坐在前座，然后鲍比一进车，谋杀几乎立即发生。
Narrator: : Leopold and Loeb confessed that they'd bludgeoned Franks with a chisel, then crammed a rag into his mouth -- which had suffocated him.
旁白：利奥波德和勒布承认，他们用凿子殴打弗兰克斯，然后将一块抹布塞进他的嘴里——这导致他窒息而死。
Then they'd driven out to the wetlands near Lake Michigan, stopping along the way for hot dogs and root beer, poured acid over Bobby's face and genitals to obscure his identity, and pushed him into the drainage pipe where he'd been found.
然后他们开车前往密歇根湖附近的湿地，沿途停下来买热狗和根汁汽水，将酸倒在鲍比的脸上和生殖器上以掩盖他的身份，然后将他推入排水管，他被发现的地方。
Crowe, hoping to build his case and cement the boys' guilt in the public mind, now had Leopold and Loeb retrace their steps on the day of the murder, leading investigators and a caravan of journalists from the hardware store where they'd purchased the chisel all the way to the spot where they'd disposed of the body.
克罗希望能够立案并在公众心目中巩固男孩们的罪名，现在他让利奥波德和勒布追溯谋杀当天的足迹，带领调查人员和一队记者从他们购买凿子的五金店一直到他们处理尸体的地方。
Hal Higdon, Writer: : The two most helpful people in sorting out the evidence were Leopold and Loeb themselves.
哈尔·希格登（Hal Higdon），作家：：在整理证据方面最有帮助的两个人是利奥波德和勒布本人。
They were sort of giving a guided tour to the people who were going to eventually prosecute them.
他们就像是在给那些最终要起诉他们的人进行导游。
It just sort of almost boggles the mind how much they gave away.
他们捐赠了多少，简直令人难以置信。
Paula Fass, Historian: : They literally demonstrated how they had done it and walked them through the scenes of the crime as if once they were discovered they were proud of the plotting.
历史学家保拉·法斯（Paula Fass）：他们逐字地展示了他们是如何做到的，并带他们参观了犯罪现场，就好像一旦他们被发现，他们就会为自己的阴谋感到自豪。
They became almost braggarts about it.
他们几乎为此自吹自擂。
Narrator: : Crowe was elated.
旁白：：克罗很高兴。
It was an open-and-shut case, he told the press, a premeditated murder carried out in cold blood.
他告诉媒体，这是一起公开的案件，是一起有预谋、冷血实施的谋杀案。
He vowed that justice would come in the form of the death penalty.
他发誓正义将以死刑的形式到来。
Hal Higdon, Writer: : The morning papers after the murder -- front-page story -- and literally for two, three, four months it was the front page story on every newspaper in Chicago.
哈尔·希格登（Hal Higdon），作家：：谋杀案发生后的晨报——头版故事——实际上，在两、三、四个月的时间里，它是芝加哥每家报纸的头版故事。
Carol Steiker, Professor of Law: : It is not possible to over-state the media attention given to this case.
法学教授卡罗尔·斯泰克 (Carol Steiker)：媒体对本案的关注怎么形容都不为过。
This case made the headlines, the front page, of The New York Times .
此案成为《纽约时报》的头条新闻。
This is not Chicago, The New York Times , three days in a row.
这不是《芝加哥》、《纽约时报》连续三天报道。
It was a case of tremendous sensation.
这是一个轰动一时的案例。
Narrator: : Suddenly, Leopold and Loeb were everywhere, and the horror of the murder began to pale before the specter of the murderers: two arrogant young men in stylish suits, smoking cigarettes and chatting blithely with reporters about the killing of Bobby Franks.
旁白：突然间，利奥波德和勒布无处不在，谋杀案的恐怖在凶手的幽灵面前开始变得苍白：两个穿着时髦西装的傲慢年轻人，抽烟，与记者愉快地谈论鲍比·弗兰克斯被杀的事情。
Carol Steiker, Professor of Law: : They said they did it because they could, because he was there, because it was fun -- for the thrill of it.
法学教授卡罗尔·斯泰克（Carol Steiker）：他们说他们这样做是因为他们可以，因为他在那里，因为这很有趣——因为它的刺激。
They didn't seem to show much remorse at all.
他们似乎并没有表现出太多的悔恨。
Narrator: : Of the two, Nathan Leopold seemed the more chilling figure.
旁白：：在这两个人中，内森·利奥波德似乎是更令人毛骨悚然的人物。
When asked how he felt about Bobby Franks' murder, Leopold casually replied that it didn't concern him.
当被问及对鲍比·弗兰克斯被谋杀有何感想时，利奥波德漫不经心地回答说，这与他无关。
"It is as easy to justify such a death," he said, "as it is to justify an entomologist impaling a beetle on a pin."
“为这样的死亡辩护很容易，”他说，“就像为昆虫学家用大头针刺穿甲虫辩护一样容易。”
John Logan, Playwright: : Leopold was seen as the monster.
剧作家约翰·洛根：利奥波德被视为怪物。
He seemed like an evil mastermind whereas Loeb seemed like such a carefree playboy who could easily be led astray by this stronger, darker intellect.
他看起来像是一个邪恶的策划者，而勒布则像是一个无忧无虑的花花公子，很容易被这种更强大、更黑暗的智力引入歧途。
The truth of the matter, of course, is the complete opposite.
当然，事情的真相完全相反。
Narrator: : The boys had met four years earlier, in the summer of 1920.
旁白：：这两个男孩四年前就认识了，那是 1920 年夏天。
Richard Loeb was then 15.
理查德·勒布当时 15 岁。
He'd not only graduated from high school, but already had completed his first year of college at the University of Chicago.
他不仅高中毕业，而且已经完成了芝加哥大学的大学一年级课程。
Nathan Leopold, just six months older, was equally precocious: he was to begin his freshman term at the university that fall.
内森·利奥波德（Nathan Leopold）只比他大六个月，同样早熟：他将于那年秋天开始大学新生学期。
John Logan, Playwright: : They both zoomed through school, zoomed into college well ahead of their peers.
剧作家约翰·洛根：他们都远远领先于同龄人，顺利完成了学业，进入了大学。
So I think once they were on each other's radar there was a sense of them sniffing each other out, of realizing here, in a way, is a kindred spirit.
所以我认为，一旦他们出现在彼此的雷达上，就会有一种互相嗅探的感觉，意识到在某种程度上，他们是志趣相投的。
Narrator: : In many ways, the two had been cut from the same cloth.
旁白：：在很多方面，两者都是一模一样的。
Both the scion of wealthy Jewish families, they'd been raised in comfort and had spent their childhoods in the constant care of governesses, mere blocks from one another.
他们都是富裕犹太家庭的后裔，在舒适的环境中长大，并在家庭女教师的不断照顾下度过了童年，彼此仅相隔几个街区。
They became fast friends -- somewhat to the bewilderment of those who knew them both.
他们成了好朋友——这让认识他们的人感到有些困惑。
John Logan, Playwright: : Richard Loeb was a dazzling human being.
剧作家约翰·洛根：理查德·勒布是一个令人眼花缭乱的人。
He was the kind of human being that when he walked through a room the molecular energy changed.
他是那种当他走过房间时分子能量就会发生变化的人。
You couldn't help looking at him.
你忍不住看着他。
He wore clothes incredibly well.
他穿衣服非常好。
He had a flashing smile.
他脸上挂着灿烂的笑容。
He was dazzlingly handsome.
他英俊得令人眼花缭乱。
Nathan Leopold was the complete opposite.
内森·利奥波德则完全相反。
There is something beetle-browed and intense and dark about Leopold.
利奥波德有一种眉头紧锁、紧张而阴暗的气质。
He was the kind of guy I think you'd instantly take a dislike to at a party.
我认为他是那种在聚会上你会立刻讨厌的人。
He was the know-it-all who would have an opinion on everything.
他是一个万事通，对所有事情都有自己的看法。
Leopold fell in love with Richard Loeb and idolized him and Loeb felt it was nice to have an acolyte.
利奥波德爱上了理查德·勒布并崇拜他，勒布觉得有一个助手真是太好了。
It was nice to have someone around him who would always make him feel beautiful or intelligent or special.
很高兴有一个人在他身边，总是让他感到美丽、聪明或特别。
I think the deeper truth -- they sensed another predator in the room, and they were drawn to each other.
我认为更深层次的事实是——他们感觉到房间里有另一个掠夺者，他们被彼此吸引。
Narrator: : What would end with the murder of Bobby Franks had begun almost innocently, with a scheme Richard devised to cheat at cards.
旁白：鲍比·弗兰克斯被谋杀的结局几乎是无辜地开始的，理查德设计了一个打牌作弊的计划。
That small transgression had bound the boys together, put them in league against the rest of the world, but Richard longed to play more dangerous games.
那个小小的过失将孩子们团结在一起，让他们与世界其他地方结成联盟，但理查德渴望玩更危险的游戏。
John Logan, Playwright: : It was crime that fascinated Loeb.
剧作家约翰·洛根：犯罪让勒布着迷。
He read detective novels, pulp periodicals, he devoured the newspapers for stories of crime.
他读侦探小说、通俗期刊，如饥似渴地阅读报纸，寻找犯罪故事。
And I think to him it's because there's a certain exceptionality about crime.
我认为对他来说这是因为犯罪有一定的特殊性。
Criminals are not of the common run of humanity.
罪犯不属于人类的普通群体。
And he felt he was not in the common run of humanity.
他觉得自己不属于人类的普通范围。
Narrator: : Nathan was more than willing to join in, but he wanted something in return.
旁白：：内森非常愿意加入，但他想要一些回报。
So the boys made a secret pact.
于是，男孩们达成了一个秘密协议。
Simon Baatz, Historian: : There was an arrangement that Richard would agree to have sex with Nathan if Nathan accompanied Richard when he did his crimes.
历史学家西蒙·巴茨（Simon Baatz）：有一项安排，如果内森在理查德犯罪时陪伴他，理查德就会同意与内森发生性关系。
Richard started out by committing small acts of vandalism -- stealing cars, setting fire to buildings.
理查德一开始就犯下了一些小破坏行为——偷车、放火烧建筑物。
It escalated more and more, and then eventually Richard suggested the idea to Nathan of committing a murder.
事态越来越严重，最终理查德向内森提出了谋杀的想法。
Narrator: : Nathan was not only agreeable, he urged Richard on with a concept taken from the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: that of the Ubermensch , or superman -- a being so exceptional that he was bound by neither law nor morality.
旁白：内森不仅很同意，他还敦促理查德采用德国哲学家弗里德里希·尼采的一个概念：超人（Ubermensch）或超人——一种如此特殊的存在，以至于他既不受法律也不受道德的约束。
John Logan, Playwright: : Unfortunately they invested in their own sort of dark and twisted version of the Nietzschean ideal where they began to self-identify as the Nietzschean superman.
剧作家约翰·洛根：不幸的是，他们投资了自己的黑暗而扭曲的尼采理想，开始自我认同为尼采超人。
They wanted to create a unique act -- do something that was, in their view, exalted and befitting of a Nietzschean superman, and they thought this act being so clever, committing the perfect murder, would be a way for them to demonstrate their superiority over other people.
他们想要创造一种独特的行为——做一些在他们看来是崇高的、适合尼采超人的事情，他们认为这种行为是如此聪明，犯下了完美的谋杀，将是他们展示自己优于其他人的一种方式。
Paula Fass, Historian: : They were a couple of boys playing a strange and sadistic game.
保拉·法斯（Paula Fass），历史学家：：他们是几个男孩，正在玩一种奇怪而残酷的游戏。
Now obviously this had an erotic dimension, but it also had a kind of intellectual dimension, and that I think is key to understanding what was going on between Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold.
显然，这有一个色情的维度，但它也有一种智力的维度，我认为这是理解理查德·勒布和内森·利奥波德之间发生的事情的关键。
Narrator: : Neither had ever considered the possibility that they would be caught.
旁白：：两人都没有考虑过自己会被抓的可能性。
Now, the two supermen were behind bars, and if the state's attorney had his way, they would end on the gallows.
现在，这两个超人已经入狱了，如果州检察官如愿以偿，他们就会被送上绞刑架。
Hours after news of the confessions broke, the Loeb family sought the counsel of the country's preeminent criminal defense attorney, Clarence Darrow -- soon to be known as the "attorney for the damned."
认罪消息传出数小时后，勒布一家向该国杰出的刑事辩护律师克拉伦斯·达罗（Clarence Darrow）寻求咨询——他很快就被称为“该死的律师”。
John A.
约翰·A.
Farrell, Writer: : Clarence Darrow was, at this point in his life, 67 years old.
法雷尔，作家：克拉伦斯·达罗此时已 67 岁。
He had just come off an amazing string of victories defending a bunch of corrupt politicians in Chicago.
他刚刚在芝加哥为一群腐败政客辩护，取得了一系列惊人的胜利。
Clarence Darrow was thought as a legal miracle worker.
克拉伦斯·达罗被认为是一位合法的奇迹创造者。
Many of his cases -- his guys or his gals are found with the guns or a bloody knife in their hands.
他的许多案件——他的男人或女人被发现手里拿着枪或一把带血的刀。
And that's why he was seen as the attorney for the damned.
这就是为什么他被视为该死者的律师。
Narrator: : "Get them a life sentence instead of death," Loeb's uncle begged Darrow.
旁白：“给他们判无期徒刑而不是死刑，”勒布的叔叔恳求达罗。
"We'll pay you anything, only for God's sake, don't let them hang." It was a request Darrow could not refuse.
“我们会付给你任何钱，只是看在上帝的份上，别让他们被绞死。”这是达罗无法拒绝的请求。
John A.
约翰·A.
Farrell, Writer: : He hated capital punishment.
作家法雷尔：：他讨厌死刑。
He did probably 60 or more capital punishment cases in his career.
在他的职业生涯中，他可能办理过 60 起或更多的死刑案件。
He lost the first one to the hangman, and he never got over it.
他在第一场比赛中输给了刽子手，但他一直没有从这件事中走出来。
His philosophy was definitely, "hate the sin and love the sinner." He believed people act the way they act because they're brought up in poverty or because they themselves have been ill-treated, and that the supreme virtue was mercy.
他的哲学绝对是“恨恶罪，爱罪人”。他相信人们的行为方式是因为他们在贫困中长大或因为他们自己受到虐待，而最高的美德是仁慈。
Simon Baatz, Historian: : He believed that everything we do is determined by our upbringing, by our childhood, by our parents, and therefore there's very little free choice.
历史学家西蒙·巴茨（Simon Baatz）：他相信我们所做的一切都是由我们的成长经历、我们的童年、我们的父母决定的，因此几乎没有自由选择。
No free will.
没有自由意志。
So he believed accordingly that capital punishment, the death penalty, was something that should not take place.
因此他认为死刑是不应该发生的。
Narrator: : Darrow was by no means alone.
旁白：：达罗并不孤单。
The previous quarter century had seen movements to abolish the death penalty in no fewer than 10 states, while the number of executions nationwide had sharply declined.
在过去的四分之一个世纪里，至少有 10 个州出现了废除死刑的运动，而全国范围内的处决数量却急剧下降。
With the issue still being hotly debated all over the country, Darrow sensed an opportunity to tip the scales.
由于这个问题仍在全国范围内引起激烈争论，达罗感觉到了扭转局面的机会。
John A.
约翰·A.
Farrell, Writer: : He wants to make a statement about capital punishment.
作家法雷尔：：他想就死刑发表一份声明。
In the Leopold and Loeb case, he knows he has this amazing spotlight.
在利奥波德和勒布的案例中，他知道自己拥有令人惊叹的聚光灯。
Everybody is listening around the world, not just in the United States.
世界各地的每个人都在倾听，而不仅仅是在美国。
Narrator: : "The actor-egoist in him sought opportunities to play great parts," one writer said of Darrow.
旁白：“他身上的演员利己主义者寻找机会扮演伟大的角色，”一位作家这样评价达罗。
"Hero parts."
“英雄零件。”
Darrow showed up for his first meeting with his clients in a rumpled seersucker suit and a shirt that bore traces of his breakfast.
达罗第一次与客户会面时，身穿皱巴巴的泡泡纱西装和带有早餐痕迹的衬衫。
"My first impression," Nathan Leopold later said, "was horror."
“我的第一印象，”内森·利奥波德后来说，“很恐怖。”
John Logan, Playwright: : You couldn't imagine three more different planets in constellation.
剧作家约翰·洛根：：你无法想象星座中还有另外三颗不同的行星。
There was Loeb, who was sleek and his lapels could cut you like a knife.
还有勒布，他很时尚，他的翻领可以像刀子一样割伤你。
Leopold who was intense and brooding and his hair was always shining and he was very sort of well put together.
利奥波德性格热情、沉思，头发总是闪闪发亮，精神状态也很好。
And then Clarence Darrow who was a complete shambling mess.
然后是克拉伦斯·达罗，他一团糟。
It was like a hobbit suddenly walked into a room of tango dancers.
这就像一个霍比特人突然走进探戈舞者的房间。
Narrator: : By the time Darrow arrived, Leopold and Loeb had been in Crowe's custody for three days, talking all the while.
旁白：：当达罗到达时，利奥波德和勒布已经被克罗拘留了三天，期间一直在说话。
The state's attorney had even arranged for Leopold and Loeb to be examined by Chicago's leading alienists -- as psychiatrists were known -- in an effort to block what he assumed would be Darrow's only possible line of defense: not guilty by reason of insanity.
州检察官甚至安排利奥波德和勒布接受芝加哥著名的精神病学家（即精神病学家）的检查，以阻止他认为达罗唯一可能的防线：因精神错乱而无罪。
Carol Steiker, Professor of Law: : Crowe's alienists all said that the defendants were perfectly sane and there was nothing wrong with them other than that they simply failed to appreciate the enormity of what they'd done.
法学教授卡罗尔·斯泰克（Carol Steiker）：克罗的精神病学家都说被告完全神志清醒，除了他们没有意识到自己所做的事情有多么严重之外，他们没有任何问题。
But that was hardly insanity, that was, in the state's view, you know, evil, not madness.
但这根本算不上疯狂，在国家看来，那是邪恶，而不是疯狂。
Narrator: : On June 11th, Darrow appeared with his clients before Judge John Caverly.
旁白：：6 月 11 日，达罗和他的当事人一起出现在约翰·卡弗利法官面前。
As expected, he entered a not guilty plea, which gave him several weeks to prepare his defense.
正如预期的那样，他提出无罪抗辩，这给了他几周的时间来准备辩护。
Next, he gathered a team of experts from all over the country to evaluate Leopold and Loeb, including a physician, an adolescent criminologist, and a psychiatrist versed in the new analytic techniques of Sigmund Freud.
接下来，他召集了来自全国各地的专家团队来评估利奥波德和勒布，其中包括一名内科医生、一名青少年犯罪学家和一名精通西格蒙德·弗洛伊德新分析技术的精神病学家。
Over the next five weeks, Leopold and Loeb would be subject to rigorous examinations derived from the cutting edge of modern science.
在接下来的五周内，利奥波德和勒布将接受来自现代科学前沿的严格检查。
Their bodily functions were measured, intelligence tested, family histories probed.
他们的身体机能被测量，智力被测试，家族史被调查。
Meanwhile, the boys' unfathomable crime prompted a rash of national hand-wringing over the perils of modern life.
与此同时，男孩们深不可测的罪行引发了全国人民对现代生活危险的担忧。
John Logan, Playwright: : It did say something about the 20s.
约翰·洛根（John Logan），剧作家：：它确实说了一些关于 20 年代的事情。
You know, the music is wild, the skirts were short, there was gin, it was a fast living society.
你知道，音乐很狂野，裙子很短，有杜松子酒，那是一个快节奏的社会。
So the madcap fun was suddenly a very dark implication of unchecked emotion, unchecked youth, unchecked wildness can lead to things.
因此，疯狂的乐趣突然变成了一种非常黑暗的暗示，不受控制的情感、不受控制的青春、不受控制的野性可能会导致一些事情。
Paula Fass, Historian: : So there was a lot of uneasiness about who we were and where we were going.
历史学家保拉·法斯 (Paula Fass)：因此，对于我们是谁以及我们要去哪里，我们感到非常不安。
You had some ministers saying it was because Americans were over-educating their children.
有些部长说这是因为美国人对他们的孩子进行了过度教育。
There was too much prosperity, too much modernism, too much indulgence of American children taking place at the time.
那时的美国孩子有太多的繁荣、太多的现代主义和太多的放纵。
All of these things rained down on the Leopold and Loeb case.
所有这些事情都落在利奥波德和勒布案上。
Narrator: : Concerned for his clients' image, Darrow sent men into the streets of Chicago to gauge public opinion.
旁白：：出于对客户形象的考虑，达罗派人到芝加哥街头收集公众意见。
Sixty percent of those queried thought Leopold and Loeb should hang.
百分之六十的受访者认为利奥波德和勒布应该被绞死。
John A.
约翰·A.
Farrell, Writer: : Darrow's early letters to his son and to his ex-wife from early June are very bleak and they say, 'I doubt that I'll be able to save these boys.' And this is a man who has pulled the trick off dozens of times throughout his career, but he says, you know, "the newspapers are just too bad."
作家法雷尔：：达罗从六月初开始写给儿子和前妻的早期信件非常悲观，他们说，“我怀疑我是否能够拯救这些男孩。”这个人在他的职业生涯中已经成功了几十次，但他说，你知道，“报纸太糟糕了。”
Narrator: : On July 21st, two months after Bobby Franks' murder, Darrow and his clients joined Prosecutor Crowe in the Criminal Court Building, to present motions before Judge John Caverly.
旁白： 7 月 21 日，鲍比·弗兰克斯被谋杀两个月后，达罗和他的当事人在刑事法院大楼与克罗检察官一起，向约翰·卡弗利法官提出动议。
It was 10am, and though the already sweltering courtroom was filled to capacity, the crowd was mostly silent.
当时是上午 10 点，尽管已经闷热的法庭已经挤满了人，但人群却大多保持沉默。
Darrow, disheveled as ever, his thumbs hooked under his trademark suspenders, spoke first, and turned the entire case on its head by entering a plea of guilty.
达罗一如既往地衣冠不整，拇指勾在他标志性的吊带下，他首先发言，并通过认罪使整个案件发生了逆转。
John A.
约翰·A.
Farrell, Writer: : He stood up and told the judge that we're going to change the plea to guilty.
作家法雷尔：：他站起来告诉法官，我们将更改认罪。
Reporters jumped and ran to the rooms and all the afternoon newspapers was that Leopold and Loeb are pleading guilty.
记者们跳进房间，下午所有的报纸都报道利奥波德和勒布正在认罪。
Hal Higdon, Writer: : And when you plead somebody guilty it changes the game entirely because now you're not going to impanel a jury.
哈尔·希格登（Hal Higdon），编剧：：当你向某人认罪时，整个游戏规则就会发生变化，因为现在你不会任命陪审团了。
So then it became the judge's decision to decide whether they would hang or whether they would be just sent to prison for life.
因此，法官将决定他们是被绞死还是被判终身监禁。
Narrator: : Crowe, who moments earlier had confidently swaggered into the courtroom chomping on a cigar, was apoplectic.
旁白：克罗刚才还嚼着雪茄，自信地大摇大摆地走进法庭，他气愤不已。
Simon Baatz, Historian: : Crowe thought he had everything sewn up, that he was all ready for a plea by the defense of not guilty on account of insanity.
历史学家西蒙·巴茨（Simon Baatz）：克罗认为他已经把一切都缝合好了，他已经准备好以精神错乱为无罪辩护。
Carol Steiker, Professor of Law: : Darrow has this radical idea that he's going to introduce evidence about his clients' backgrounds, and about their mental states to argue for a sentence less than death.
法学教授卡罗尔·斯泰克 (Carol Steiker)：达罗有一个激进的想法，他将提供有关客户背景和精神状态的证据，以主张判处比死刑轻的判决。
Darrow's strategy to introduce this evidence was absolutely ground breaking.
达罗引入这一证据的策略绝对是开创性的。
It was so groundbreaking that no one had ever heard of it.
它是如此具有开创性，以至于没有人听说过它。
The state's attorney thought it was completely ridiculous and he shouldn't be allowed to do this.
州检察官认为这完全是荒谬的，不应该允许他这样做。
John Logan, Playwright: : Darrow wanted to present psychological weakness as a mitigating factor for sentencing.
剧作家约翰·洛根：达罗希望将心理弱点作为量刑的减刑因素。
So essentially what he was saying to Judge Caverly was, 'We admit that we committed the crime, but I'd like to show you why we committed the crime.'
因此，他对卡弗利法官说的基本上是，“我们承认我们犯了罪，但我想告诉你我们为什么犯罪。”
Narrator: : When the sentencing hearing got underway on the morning of July 23rd, 1924, the stifling courtroom was so thronged with spectators that reporters commandeered the empty jury box.
旁白：1924 年 7 月 23 日上午，量刑听证会开始时，令人窒息的法庭挤满了观众，记者们霸占了空荡荡的陪审团包厢。
Crowe presented the state's evidence first -- armed with a lengthy list of witnesses who would provide testimony on every ghastly detail of Leopold and Loeb's crime.
克罗首先提交了州政府的证据，并提供了一长串证人名单，他们将为利奥波德和勒布犯罪的每一个可怕细节提供证词。
Carol Steiker, Professor of Law: : Even though it's not a trial, Crowe has to present evidence to show the defendants' guilt.
法学教授卡罗尔·斯泰克 (Carol Steiker)：：即使这不是审判，克罗也必须提供证据来证明被告有罪。
He does so quite thoroughly.
他做得相当彻底。
He introduces more than 80 witnesses, and when he's done, there's absolutely no doubt in anyone's mind that Leopold and Loeb committed these offenses.
他介绍了 80 多名证人，当他完成后，任何人都毫无疑问利奥波德和勒布犯下了这些罪行。
Hal Higdon, Writer: : These witnesses would appear, and Darrow would just sort of sit in the corner and do nothing because he realized that to cross-examine the witness, even gave more spirit to what was there, so he remained silent.
哈尔·希格登（Hal Higdon），作家：：这些证人会出现，达罗会坐在角落里什么都不做，因为他意识到盘问证人甚至会给那里的东西带来更多的精神，所以他保持沉默。
Narrator: : Crowe hammered away at the facts of the case for seven full days: the senseless, brutal slaying of a 14-year-old boy, the calculated disposal of the material evidence, the glib demeanor of the killers once they'd been caught.
旁白：克罗整整七天都在不断地讲述案件的事实：对一名 14 岁男孩的毫无意义、残酷的杀害，对物证的精心处理，以及凶手被捕后的油嘴滑舌的举止。
It was, the prosecutor said, "the most cruel, cowardly, dastardly murder ever committed in the annals of American jurisprudence." He demanded the death penalty.
检察官称，这是“美国法学史上最残忍、最懦弱、最卑鄙的谋杀案”。他要求判处死刑。
Throughout, Leopold and Loeb, sat just behind their attorneys, snickering.
自始至终，利奥波德和勒布都坐在他们的律师后面，窃笑。
"It was remarkable," one observer noted, "to see two kids on trial for their life acting like that."
一位观察家指出：“看到两个因生命受审的孩子表现出这样的行为，真是太了不起了。”
Simon Baatz, Historian: : One of the things that was very striking was their absence of remorse.
历史学家西蒙·巴茨（Simon Baatz）：：非常引人注目的事情之一是他们毫无悔意。
They never apologized.
他们从未道歉。
They never said sorry.
他们从来没有说过对不起。
And of course their families were terribly distraught and upset.
当然，他们的家人也非常心烦意乱。
Paula Fass, Historian: : Leopold's father came to every single day of the hearing.
历史学家保拉·法斯：利奥波德的父亲每天都会出席听证会。
The Loeb family was represented by one of Loeb's brothers.
勒布家族由勒布的一位兄弟代表。
The parents retreated to their summer home.
父母回到了他们的避暑别墅。
I think they never came to grips with what had happened.
我认为他们从未认真对待所发生的事情。
I think they were in as much shock as anybody else.
我认为他们和其他人一样感到震惊。
Narrator: : On July 30th, the defense finally took charge of the room.
旁白：：7月30日，辩方终于控制了房间。
It was his intention, Darrow told Judge Caverly, to show that his clients were diseased, both physically and mentally, and therefore not responsible for their actions.
达罗告诉卡弗利法官，他的目的是表明他的当事人在身体和精神上都有疾病，因此不对他们的行为负责。
Calling his team of experts to the stand one by one, Darrow spelled out for the court the findings from the elaborate pre-trial examinations of Leopold and Loeb, offering a catalogue of the boys' abnormalities.
达罗将他的专家团队一一召集到证人席上，向法庭详细说明了对利奥波德和勒布进行的精心审前检查的结果，并提供了男孩们异常情况的目录。
One witness testified to their dysfunctional endocrine glands; another to the delusions that had led to their crime.
一名证人证实他们的内分泌腺功能失调；另一个是导致他们犯罪的妄想。
Paula Fass, Historian: : The psychiatrists argue that, in fact, it was Loeb and not Leopold who was responsible and that Leopold had been his servant, that there had been a master/slave relationship between the two of them.
历史学家保拉·法斯：精神病学家认为，事实上，责任是勒布而不是利奥波德，利奥波德是他的仆人，他们两人之间存在着主/奴关系。
Simon Baatz, Historian: : Richard had this fantasy of being a master criminal and Nathan had the fantasy of being a slave to a king.
历史学家西蒙·巴茨 (Simon Baatz)：：理查德幻想着成为一名犯罪大师，而内森则幻想成为国王的奴隶。
And it's that inner fantasy life that created the bond between the two boys.
正是这种内心的幻想生活创造了两个男孩之间的联系。
Narrator: : Referring to the two as Babe and Dickie, their childhood nicknames, the witnesses for the defense argued that both boys suffered from stunted emotional growth.
旁白：：辩方证人称这两个男孩为“宝贝”和“迪基”，这是他们童年时的昵称，他们认为这两个男孩都患有情感发育迟缓。
Richard, in particular, was "a little child emotionally, still talking to his teddy bear," one psychiatrist told the court.
一位精神科医生告诉法庭，理查德“在情感上就像个小孩子，仍在和他的泰迪熊说话”。
"He is infantile, I should say somewhere around four or five years old."
“他还是个婴儿，我应该说大约四五岁左右。”
Simon Baatz, Historian: : Both boys had been neglected by their parents.
历史学家西蒙·巴茨 (Simon Baatz)：两个男孩都被父母忽视了。
Both had a governess and these governesses exerted an enormous amount of control over the children.
两人都有一名家庭女教师，这些家庭女教师对孩子们施加了巨大的控制。
Nathan Leopold had been abused sexually by his governess when he was about 12 years old.
内森·利奥波德 (Nathan Leopold) 在 12 岁左右时曾遭到家庭教师的性虐待。
With Richard Loeb it was a case that his governess virtually stepped in as a mother figure, pushed him to excel in the classroom, and as he tells it to the psychiatrists, he began to be so resentful that he started to lie, and Richard himself traced his crimes back to those lies that he told his governess.
对于理查德·勒布来说，他的家庭教师几乎以母亲的身份介入，督促他在课堂上表现出色，当他向精神科医生讲述这件事时，他开始非常愤恨，以至于开始撒谎，理查德本人将他的罪行追溯到他对家庭教师说的那些谎言。
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Farrell, Writer: : It took a tremendous amount of chutzpa but Clarence Darrow made the argument that these two, very privileged sons of very wealthy families were actually victims.
作家法雷尔：尽管克拉伦斯·达罗（Clarence Darrow）费了很大的勇气，却提出了这样的论点：这两个非常富有家庭的特权儿子实际上是受害者。
They were in this very sheltered life with cold families and that therefore they should be pitied rather than hated.
他们生活在冷漠的家庭中，因此他们应该被怜悯而不是被仇恨。
Narrator: : To Crowe, the entire defense was preposterous.
旁白：：对克劳来说，整个辩护都是荒谬的。
He fairly wore himself out with objections and vehement cross-examinations.
他因反对和激烈的盘问而疲惫不堪。
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Farrell, Writer: : Constantly through the trial he is going back, returning to the savagery of the crime.
作家法雷尔：：在整个审判过程中，他不断地回到犯罪的野蛮行径。
Because he knows what Darrow is doing.
因为他知道达罗在做什么。
He knows that he has to pressure Judge Caverly in the opposite direction.
他知道他必须向相反的方向向卡弗利法官施压。
So the whole thing is a struggle between these two legal titans -- Crowe and Darrow -- for the judge's mind.
所以整件事就是克劳和达罗这两位法律巨头之间争夺法官心意的斗争。
Narrator: : There were plenty of Americans who agreed with Crowe that the boys' guilt was all that mattered.
旁白：：有很多美国人同意克劳的观点，即男孩们的内疚才是最重要的。
But for many others, Darrow's defense offered an intriguing new perspective on human behavior.
但对于其他许多人来说，达罗的辩护为人类行为提供了一个有趣的新视角。
Paula Fass, Historian: : What the Leopold and Loeb defense team did was to introduce Freudian interpretations into the courtroom, and that was all very new.
保拉·法斯（Paula Fass），历史学家：利奥波德和勒布辩护团队所做的就是将弗洛伊德的解释引入法庭，这都是非常新颖的。
And it just grabbed the American public.
它刚刚吸引了美国公众。
It riveted them.
这让他们着迷。
The parents who read the newspapers were fixated on what they could learn about their own more normal children from these young people.
读报纸的父母专注于从这些年轻人那里了解自己更正常的孩子。
What about my child?
我的孩子呢？
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Farrell, Writer: : The major effect of all the scientific testimony was that it convinced the people of Chicago, America and around the world that there were indeed motivations.
作家法雷尔：所有科学证据的主要作用是它让芝加哥、美国和世界各地的人们相信确实存在动机。
It wasn't just a matter of good and evil.
这不仅仅是善恶的问题。
There are flaws in human beings and triggers that make people act the way they do.
人类存在缺陷，也存在导致人们做出这种行为的诱因。
Narrator: : On August 18th, after two and half weeks of testimony, the defense rested.
旁白：：8 月 18 日，经过两周半的作证后，辩方休息了。
What remained now were the closing arguments, the last chance for both sides to convince Judge Caverly to either spare the boys' lives or else sentence them to hang until they were dead.
现在剩下的就是结案陈词，这是双方说服卡弗利法官要么饶了孩子们一命，要么判处他们绞刑直至死亡的最后机会。
The curious spectators began to descend on the Criminal Court Building at mid-day on Friday, August 22nd.
8 月 22 日星期五中午，好奇的观众开始涌向刑事法院大楼。
By 2pm, more than 2,000 people had massed at the doors and begun pushing their way in.
到下午2点，已有2000多人聚集在门口并开始涌入。
They had come to hear Clarence Darrow's closing argument -- rumored to be the last the legendary attorney would give before his retirement.
他们来听克拉伦斯·达罗的结案陈词——据传这是这位传奇律师退休前的最后一次陈词。
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Farrell, Writer: : Darrow teased the press that this could be his last big case.
作家法雷尔：达罗戏弄媒体说这可能是他最后一个大案子。
This was a way of Darrow to focus attention.
这是达罗集中注意力的一种方式。
It wasn't just Clarence Darrow defending Leopold and Loeb it was "Clarence Darrow's last stand."
这不仅仅是克拉伦斯·达罗在捍卫利奥波德和勒布，这是“克拉伦斯·达罗的最后一站”。
Clarence Darrow (James Cromwell, audio): : Your Honor, I have stood here for three months as one might stand at the ocean trying to sweep back the tide.
克拉伦斯·达罗（詹姆斯·克伦威尔，音频）：法官大人，我已经在这里站了三个月，就像站在海边试图卷回潮水一样。
I hope the seas are subsiding and the wind is falling, and I believe they are, but I wish to make no false pretense to this court.
我希望海平面正在消退，风正在减弱，我相信它们确实如此，但我不希望向法庭做出任何虚假的借口。
The easy thing and the popular thing to do is to hang my clients...
最简单也是最流行的事情就是绞死我的客户......
we are asking this court to save their lives.
我们请求法庭拯救他们的生命。
Narrator: : Speaking continuously for the better part of three days, Darrow offered the court a rambling summary of the reasons Leopold and Loeb should be spared.
旁白：：在三天的大部分时间里，达罗不断地向法庭陈述利奥波德和勒布应该被赦免的原因。
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Farrell, Writer: : If you read Clarence Darrow's arguments today, they sound in desperate need of an editor, but if you think about the effect that they had in the courtroom before the age of television and radio when this was supreme human drama, you realize that he was very smoothly, seductively creating a mood, casting a spell, touching their emotions, quite masterfully.
作家法雷尔：如果你今天阅读克拉伦斯·达罗的论点，它们听起来迫切需要一个编辑，但如果你想想电视和广播时代之前他们在法庭上的效果，当时这是人类最高的戏剧，你就会发现他非常流畅，诱人地营造一种情绪，施展咒语，触动他们的情感，非常熟练。
Clarence Darrow (James Cromwell, audio): : Before I would tie a noose around the neck of a boy I would try to call back into my mind the emotions of youth...
克拉伦斯·达罗（詹姆斯·克伦威尔，音频）：：在我将绞索套在一个男孩的脖子上之前，我会尝试唤回我的脑海中年轻的情感......
The brain of the child is the home of dreams, of castles, of visions, of illusions and delusions, and whether they take one shape or another shape depends not on the dreamy boy, but on what surrounds him.
孩子的大脑是梦想、城堡、幻象、幻想和妄想的家园，它们是否采取一种形状或另一种形状并不取决于做梦的男孩，而是取决于他周围的事物。
Narrator: : Again and again, Darrow spoke of youth -- reminding Judge Caverly, that Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, at 19, were but children.
旁白：达罗一次又一次地谈到青春——提醒卡弗利法官，19 岁的内森·利奥波德和理查德·勒布还只是孩子。
During the previous century, no one younger than 23 had been executed in Illinois on a guilty plea.
上个世纪，伊利诺伊州没有任何 23 岁以下的人因认罪而被处决。
For the prosecutor to demand such an execution was barbarous, Darrow said, and evidence of the savagery the recent world war had unleashed.
达罗说，检察官要求执行这样的处决是野蛮的，有证据表明最近的世界大战引发了野蛮行径。
Clarence Darrow (James Cromwell, audio): : We are used to blood, your Honor...
克拉伦斯·达罗（詹姆斯·克伦威尔，音频）：：我们已经习惯了鲜血，法官大人……
we have not only had it shed in bucketsful, we have it shed in rivers, lakes and oceans, we have delighted in it, we have preached it...
我们不仅把它倾倒在桶里，我们还把它倾倒在河流、湖泊和海洋中，我们为它感到高兴，我们传播它......
until the world has been drenched in blood and has left its stains of blood upon every human heart.
直到世界被鲜血浸透，并在每个人心中留下血迹。
Hal Higdon, Writer: : It was almost as though he had been scripted by Shakespeare.
哈尔·希格登（Hal Higdon），编剧：：这几乎就像莎士比亚写的剧本一样。
He was a brilliant man.
他是一个才华横溢的人。
He had a tremendous capture of the law.
他对法律有着深刻的理解。
He didn't need notes.
他不需要笔记。
He was the consummate actor.
他是一位完美的演员。
Clarence Darrow (James Cromwell, audio): : I am not pleading so much for these boys as I am for the infinite number of others to follow...
克拉伦斯·达罗（詹姆斯·克伦威尔，音频）：：我并不是为这些男孩恳求，而是为无数其他人效仿......
Your Honor stands between the past and the future.
法官阁下站在过去与未来之间。
You may hang these boys; you may hang them by the neck until they are dead, but in doing it you will turn your face towards the past.
你可以绞死这些男孩；你可以掐住他们的脖子直到他们死去，但这样做你就会把脸转向过去。
Carol Steiker, Professor Law: : Clarence Darrow had that courtroom eating out of his hands.
卡罗尔·斯泰克（Carol Steiker），法学教授：克拉伦斯·达罗（Clarence Darrow）让法庭失去了他的控制权。
He brought Loeb, who giggled and chuckled and smirked throughout his own trial, to tears.
他让勒布在整个审判过程中咯咯地笑，咯咯笑，傻笑着流泪。
The judge had tears in his eyes when Darrow was done.
达罗讲完后，法官眼里含着泪水。
Narrator: : Prosecutor Crowe, in his rebuttal, fought back hard.
旁白：：克罗检察官在反驳中进行了强力反击。
He even went so far as to insinuate -- without any conclusive evidence -- that there had been a sexual motive for the crime.
他甚至在没有任何确凿证据的情况下暗示犯罪有性动机。
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Farrell, Writer: : Crowe introduces the idea that poor Bobby Franks was molested either before and or after death, at which point, Judge Caverly tells the female reporters that they have to leave his courtroom because their dainty ears can't be listening to such awful testimony.
法雷尔，作家：克罗介绍了可怜的鲍比·弗兰克斯在死前和死后受到猥亵的想法，此时，卡弗利法官告诉女记者，她们必须离开法庭，因为她们娇嫩的耳朵无法听到如此可怕的证词。
Hal Higdon, Writer: : Attorney Crowe really was sort of between a rock and a hard place.
哈尔·希格登（Hal Higdon），编剧：克罗律师确实是进退两难。
They were pleaded guilty, so all he can do is bring in the grotesque evidence of the case, how horrible it was and show what terrible, terrible beings they were.
他们已经认罪了，所以他所能做的就是拿出案件的怪诞证据，告诉他们事情是多么可怕，并展示他们是多么可怕、可怕的存在。
Narrator: : If Judge Caverly was leaning one way or the other when the hearing finally concluded on its 32nd day, he gave no indication.
旁白：：当听证会最终在第 32 天结束时，如果卡弗利法官倾向于某一方面，他没有做出任何表示。
But Chicago's bookies had already begun offering three to one odds against a death sentence.
但芝加哥的博彩公司已经开始提供三比一的死刑赔率。
For 12 days, Chicago and the world waited while Caverly wrestled with his decision.
整整 12 天，芝加哥和全世界都在等待，而卡弗利则在纠结自己的决定。
For many Americans, what hung in the balance was not merely the fate of Leopold and Loeb, but the very meaning of justice.
对于许多美国人来说，悬而未决的不仅仅是利奥波德和勒布的命运，还有正义的意义。
"You who sit there at your breakfast table, so comfortable," one columnist wrote, "would you stand for justice, no matter if by taking such a stand you had to walk to the foot of the gallows with your own son?"
一位专栏作家写道：“你坐在早餐桌旁，如此舒服，你会支持正义吗？即使采取这样的立场，你必须和自己的儿子一起走上绞刑架吗？”
Simon Baatz, Historian: : Is it going to be life in prison, or is it going to be the death penalty?
历史学家西蒙·巴茨：是终身监禁，还是死刑？
Caverly is not very happy with this situation because the whole responsibility rests upon his shoulders.
卡弗利对这种情况不太满意，因为全部责任都落在了他的肩上。
Whatever decision he makes he is going to be criticized.
无论他做出什么决定，他都会受到批评。
Narrator: : Finally, on September 10th, the parties to the case assembled once again in Caverly's courtroom.
旁白：：终于，9月10日，案件各方再次聚集在卡弗利的法庭上。
Security was tight, the mood tense, as Caverly began to read from three sheets of lined paper.
当卡弗利开始读三张横格纸时，安保严密，气氛紧张。
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Farrell, Writer: : Judge Caverly comes out to give the verdict and he says basically, "I'm not going to be moved by any of the scientific evidence -- it was interesting, gentlemen, but they pled guilty." Nathan Leopold thought he was heading for the hangman.
作家法雷尔：卡弗利法官出庭做出判决，他基本上说：“我不会被任何科学证据所感动——这很有趣，先生们，但他们认罪了。”内森·利奥波德以为他正朝刽子手走去。
Narrator: : But the judge went on, and it swiftly became clear that Leopold and Loeb were headed not for the gallows, but for prison.
旁白：但是法官继续说下去，很快就发现利奥波德和勒布不是要上绞刑架，而是要进监狱。
"The court believes that it is within his province," Caverly explained, "to decline to impose the sentence of death on persons who are not of full age."
卡弗利解释说：“法院认为，他有权拒绝对未成年的人判处死刑。”
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Farrell, Writer: : One of the most interesting things about Judge Caverly's ruling is how, in the end, how little all that scientific testimony, all the alienists' testimony, that talk about glandular secretions, how little it all mattered.
作家法雷尔：卡弗利法官的裁决中最有趣的事情之一是，最终，所有那些谈论腺体分泌物的科学证词、所有精神病学家的证词都是多么无关紧要。
In the end he clung to that legal idea of precedent.
最终他坚持了先例的法律观念。
Carol Steiker, Professor of Law: : The judge says, 'I'm basing my decision not to impose the death penalty entirely on the defendants' youth.' I can only imagine what the prosecution thought of the judge's sentence because I could imagine them saying, 'if these guys don't get the death penalty, who should get the death penalty?'
法学教授卡罗尔·斯泰克 (Carol Steiker)：：法官说，“我的决定是不完全对被告的青少年判处死刑。”我只能想象检方对法官判决的看法，因为我可以想象他们说，“如果这些人不被判处死刑，谁应该被判处死刑？”
Narrator: : Leopold and Loeb were sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Bobby Franks, plus 99 years for the kidnapping.
旁白：利奥波德和勒布因谋杀鲍比·弗兰克斯而被判处终身监禁，并因绑架罪被判处 99 年徒刑。
The verdict would provoke outrage across the country, and accusations that the defendants had bought their way out of the hangman's noose.
这一判决将激起全国的愤怒，并指责被告花钱摆脱了刽子手的绞索。
But Darrow had saved his clients' lives, and dealt a powerful blow to the death penalty.
但达罗拯救了他当事人的生命，并对死刑造成了强有力的打击。
As he told the reporters who crowded around the defense table, he now planned to launch a campaign to end capital punishment in Illinois.
正如他对聚集在辩护席周围的记者所说，他现在计划发起一场运动，以结束伊利诺伊州的死刑。
Before leaving the courtroom, Leopold and Loeb shook Darrow's hand.
离开法庭前，利奥波德和勒布与达罗握手。
In the morning, the pair would be bound for the penitentiary at Joliet.
早上，两人将前往乔利埃特监狱。
Back in his cell at the county jail, Nathan called to the sheriff and arranged for what surely would be the boys' last good meal: thick steaks smothered in onions and chocolate éclairs.
回到县监狱的牢房里，内森打电话给治安官，安排了孩子们最后一顿美餐：厚厚的牛排，上面裹着洋葱和巧克力闪电泡芙。
Nathan Leopold (archival): : Ladies and Gentleman, a month ago I begged the members of the parole board for their compassion.
内森·利奥波德（档案）：女士们，先生们，一个月前，我恳求假释委员会成员给予我同情。
They found it in their hearts to grant it...
他们发自内心地同意它......
Narrator: : By the time Nathan Leopold was released from prison in 1958, he'd been behind bars for more than 33 years.
旁白：：到 1958 年内森·利奥波德 (Nathan Leopold) 出狱时，他已经在监狱里呆了 33 年多了。
Richard Loeb had died in prison two decades before, murdered by a fellow inmate who claimed Loeb had made unwanted sexual advances.
理查德·勒布二十年前死在监狱里，被一名狱友谋杀，这名狱友声称勒布曾进行过不受欢迎的性挑衅。
Clarence Darrow had died back in 1938, at the age of 80, having spent much of his time outside of the courtroom advocating with little success against the death penalty.
克拉伦斯·达罗 (Clarence Darrow) 于 1938 年去世，享年 80 岁，他大部分时间都在法庭之外倡导反对死刑，但收效甚微。
Swarmed by reporters outside of the prison, Leopold pleaded for privacy.
监狱外挤满了记者，利奥波德恳求保护隐私。
Nathan Leopold (archival): : "I appeal as solemnly as I know how, to you and to your editors and to your publishers and to society at large to agree that the only piece of news about me is that I have ceased to be news."
内森·利奥波德（档案）：“我尽我所知郑重呼吁你们、你们的编辑、你们的出版商和整个社会同意，关于我的唯一新闻就是我不再是新闻了。”
Narrator: : Leopold and Loeb would never again dominate headlines.
旁白：：利奥波德和勒布再也不会成为头条新闻。
But the perpetrators of the "perfect crime" would continue to compel fascination for decades to come.
但“完美犯罪”的肇事者将在未来几十年继续令人着迷。
Carol Steiker, Professor of Law: : I think this case has a continuous hold on our imaginations because of the way it interrogates the idea of evil and whether or not there really is such a thing.
法学教授卡罗尔·斯泰克（Carol Steiker）：我认为这个案件一直在激发我们的想象力，因为它质疑邪恶的观念以及是否真的存在这样的事情。
Darrow tried to get us away from thinking in terms of monsters and kind of unfathomable darkness, to try to understand the world in terms of sickness and health, youth and maturity, shades of gray, rather than the black and white of good and evil.
达罗试图让我们摆脱对怪物和深不可测的黑暗的思考，尝试从疾病与健康、年轻与成熟、灰色阴影的角度来理解世界，而不是用黑白的善与恶来理解世界。
John Logan, Playwright: : One of the terrifying implications of the case in 1924 was, if the boys who had everything in the world ahead of them could do this act, why could not other people do this act?
剧作家约翰·洛根：1924 年案件的可怕含义之一是，如果那些拥有世界上一切的男孩都可以做到这一点，为什么其他人不能做到这一点？
And I think in a way that's why we're still discussing the case because they did something mad, and we're all capable of doing something mad.
我认为在某种程度上这就是我们仍在讨论此案的原因，因为他们做了一些疯狂的事情，而我们都有能力做一些疯狂的事情。
Given the forces upon them or upon any of us, what are we capable of?
考虑到他们或我们任何人身上的力量，我们能做什么？
Clarence Darrow (James Cromwell, audio): : Why then did these two boys commit this rash and horrible deed?
克拉伦斯·达罗（詹姆斯·克伦威尔，音频）：：那么为什么这两个男孩会犯下这种鲁莽而可怕的行为呢？
I presume they know less about the reason than others who have studied the case and the boys as well.
我认为他们对原因的了解少于研究此案的其他人以及男孩们。
There are many things that human beings cannot understand, and of all the fathomless questions that confront and confuse men, the most baffling is the human mind.
人类有很多无法理解的事情，而在人类所面临和困惑的所有深不可测的问题中，最令人费解的莫过于人心。
Watch the opening scene of The Perfect Crime .
观看《完美犯罪》的开场场景。
The shocking story of Richard Leopold and Nathan Loeb, two wealthy college students who murdered a 14-year-old boy in 1924 to prove they were smart enough to get away with it.
理查德·利奥波德 (Richard Leopold) 和内森·勒布 (Nathan Loeb) 讲述了两个富有的大学生在 1924 年谋杀了一名 14 岁男孩的令人震惊的故事，以证明他们足够聪明，能够逃脱惩罚。
In May 1924, police only had a few clues to point them towards the murderer of 14-year-old Bobby Franks.
1924 年 5 月，警方仅掌握少量线索，锁定了杀害 14 岁鲍比·弗兰克斯 (Bobby Franks) 的凶手。
Although Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb came from similar backgrounds, they were very different young men.
尽管内森·利奥波德和理查德·勒布出身相似，但他们是截然不同的年轻人。
After Leopold and Loeb confessed to the murder of Bobby Franks, their families hired famed defense attorney, Clarence Darrow to try to save the boys from the hangman's noose.
利奥波德和勒布承认谋杀了鲍比·弗兰克斯后，他们的家人聘请了著名的辩护律师克拉伦斯·达罗，试图将孩子们从绞刑架上解救出来。
When two privileged boys from a wealthy Chicago suburb confessed to a brutal murder, the story made national headlines.
当两名来自芝加哥富裕郊区的特权男孩承认犯有残酷谋杀案时，这个故事成为了全国头条新闻。
Explore photos of the investigation and trial.
浏览调查和审判的照片。