It was a perfect crime, or so the smug perps thought. Witnesses saw them drive away from the murder scene, where they left evidence. Their alibis didn’t hold up. Still, when the brilliant playboy sons ...

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 ...

It was 1924 and the handsome, charismatic Richard Loeb had already graduated from the University of Michigan–he was 18 years old. Brilliant, loaded (he was the son of a Sears, Roebuck & Co. executive) ...

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 were two young University of Chicago students who, inspired by a toxic cocktail of sexual obsession and misinterpreted Nietzsche, killed a 14-year-old boy in 1924.

“The Leopold and Loeb Files” by Nina Barrett; Agate Midway (304 pages, $35) Nearly 100 years ago — Wednesday, May 21, 1924, a bit after 5 p.m. to be precise — 14-year-old Bobby Franks was lured into a ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One hundred years ago, two affluent and academically-gifted young men – Nathan Leopold, 19, and Richard Loeb, 18 – decided to ...

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 ...

Relationships can be murder! In the height of the roaring twenties, Richard Loeb is obsessed with crime. Nathan Leopold is obsessed with Richard. Buzzed on adrenaline, they leave a trail of arson, ...

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 ...