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) ...
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, ...
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 ...
On this date, May 21, in 1924, wealthy teenagers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb killed 14-year-old Bobby Franks in one of the most fascinating murders in American history. Leopold, who graduated from ...
How can two seemingly normal teenage boys murder a child with no clear motive? What prompted such nauseating cold-bloodedness in two brilliant University of Chicago students? Simon Baatz, an associate ...
Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold created a nationwide sensation in 1924 when they were convicted of kidnapping and slaying a young neighbor in Chicago just for the thrill of it. Loeb and Leopold, then ...