The Perfect Crime That Wasn’t: Nathan Leopold and the Murder of Bobby Franks
In 1924, two wealthy Chicago teenagers decided they were above the law. Nathan Leopold — a nineteen-year-old prodigy, birdwatcher, and Nietzsche devotee — and his closest friend Richard Loeb spent months planning what they called the perfect crime: the kidnapping and murder of a random rich boy, purely for the intellectual thrill of getting away with it.
On May 21 they lured fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks into a rented car. What followed became known as the crime of the century.
Host Alexander Lawson tells the story of the murder, the pair of glasses that destroyed their plan, Clarence…
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