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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

Teenagers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb cruised around a leafy section of Chicago on the idyllic spring afternoon of May 21, 1924, searching for a neighborhood boy to kill. The duo weren’t motivated ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1924, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb set out to commit the "perfect crime." In 1924, after several months of meticulous planning, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old ...

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 ...

Thrill Me by Stephen Dolginoff is a True-Crime musical about the very real story of Leopold and Loeb, two pre-law students reunited after years apart. Before their separation, the two shared a deep ...

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 ...