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 ...

When Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two well-educated college students from a wealthy suburb of Chicago, confessed to the brutal murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, the story made headlines across ...

In May 1924 the body of a young boy was found abandoned in a culvert outside of Chicago, IL. The investigation into his murder would lead to two unlikely suspects -- the young, wealthy, educated ...

In 1924, Nathan Leopold, 19, and Richard Loeb, 18, both intellectually precocious scions of wealthy Jewish Chicago families, kidnapped and brutally murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in an attempt to ...