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Leopold and Loeb got special treatment in the state prison (because of their money), like having a private cell, books, a desk, a filing cabinet, and even pet birds. The also got to shower away from other prisoners, they took their meals in the officer's office, got any amount they wanted of unsupervised visits, and their own gardens. In 1932 they opened a school in the prison and Leopold wrote an autobiography titled Life Plus 99 Years. In January of 1936 Loeb was murdered by another prisoner when he slashed Loeb in the back 56 times with a homemade knife and left him to bleed in the shower room. The killer claimed he murdered Loeb because Loeb had made sexual advances towards him and he was thought of to be a "brutal prison rapist", but it was later revealed that Loeb was killed because he had not given him as many cigarettes as he had given other prisoners. In March of 1958 Leopold was let out on parole and he moved to Puerto Rico and married in 1961, and later died from a heart attack in August of 1971.