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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nathan Leopold had planned to visit Paris in the summer of 1924. Instead, he and Richard Loeb found themselves behind bars and on trial for the murder of Bobby Franks, their neighbor in Kenwood, an ...

Follow the story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb and their quest for the perfect crime. On a spring afternoon 100 years ago, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were affluent teenagers living in ...

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 1924 true-crime case of silver-spoon murderers — and lovers — Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb has inspired endless works, from films to plays to novels. But opera? That’s a new one. HindSight, by ...

Very soon, you are going to have to figure out a way to reach the minds of people who are used to absorbing information from 30-second bites on TikTok. In 1924, two wealthy University of Chicago ...