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 ...
It has been called the “Jewish crime of the century.” But the centenary of the trial and conviction of Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. and Richard Albert Loeb, is a time to reconsider the case of those ...
King and Wilson, coauthors of The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria, return with an intriguing deep dive into the horrific 1924 murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago. Affluent friends Nathan ...
Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were sons of Chicago's Jewish aristocracy, youths -- Leopold was 19 and Loeb 18 -- who had been denied little in life and who gave every evidence of having brilliant ...
Partly inspired by the 1920s Leopold-Loeb murder case, "Murder by Numbers" puts cop Cassie (Sandra Bullock) and her new partner (Ben Chaplin) on the trail of two rich, troubled teens (Ryan Gosling and ...