1 Nathan Leopold, not Richard Loeb, was likely the dominant partner and the actual killer of 14-year-old Bobby Franks. This is the major new claim advanced by Greg King and Penny Wilson’s Nothing but ...

Nathan Leopold’s glasses, found near the body of the murder victim, were the clue that eventually led police to arrest Leopold and Richard Loeb for the murder of Bobby Franks, May 25, 1924. Nathan ...

One hundred years ago, two affluent and academically-gifted young men – Nathan Leopold, 19, and Richard Loeb, 18 – decided to commit the perfect murder, when they abducted and killed 14-year-old Bobby ...

In the Leopold and Loeb trial of 1924, attorney Clarence Darrow achieved what many thought impossible. He saved the lives of two cold-blooded child-killers with the power of a speech. Nathan Leopold ...

In 1924, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb — two sharp, upper-crust Chicago scions — abducted and brutally murdered a 14-year-old boy. They did it for the thrill. They chose the victim at random, they ...

When Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two well-educated college students from a wealthy suburb of Chicago, confessed to the brutal murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, the story made headlines across ...

Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb ultimately confessed to the brutal murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty The murder of a 14-year-old Chicago boy committed by two former ...

Almost 100 years ago, Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. and Richard Albert Loeb set out to commit the perfect crime, just for the thrill of it. In May 1924, Leopold and Loeb kidnapped and murdered ...

On May 21, 1924, two perverted Chicago youths named Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped 14-year-old Bobby Franks, knocked him unconscious, violated him, killed him, poured acid over his face, ...

In May 1924, two young men set out to kidnap and murder a child of an affluent family. Nathan F. Leopold Jr., aged nineteen, and Richard Loeb, eighteen, had spent months planning and rehearsing what ...

LIFE PLUS 99 YEARS (381 pp.)—Nathan F.Leopold Jr.—Doubleday ($5.50). “I don’t want to think about those sordid things,” writes Nathan Leopold. He may have written this memoir partly to help ease his ...

The following is an excerpt with from Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience, by Sally Satel and Scott O. Liliefeld. In May 1924, two young men set out to kidnap and murder a child ...