Born into wealthy Jewish families in Chicago in 1904 and 1905, respectively, Leopold and Loeb were afforded every opportunity throughout their youth. Both were precocious students, with Leopold ...

Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were teenagers living in a wealthy Chicago suburb when they were arrested for murder. Loeb had recently graduated, at 17 years old, from the University of Michigan ...

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 ...

Those events are the kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old Robert Franks by Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, considered the crime of the century at the time, and the passage by the United ...

Athletes with Chicago connections traveled to Paris ... Some figured Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb’s trial would hinge on an insanity defense. In Illinois, the legal definition of insanity ...