Nathan Leopold had planned to visit Paris in the summer of 1924. Instead, he and Richard Loeb found themselves behind bars and on trial for the murder of Bobby Franks, their neighbor in Kenwood, an ...

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The 1924 true-crime case of silver-spoon murderers — and lovers — Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb has inspired endless works, from films to plays to novels. But opera? That’s a new one. HindSight, by ...

The brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a 14-year-old boy named Bobby Franks fascinated people of the time and remains one of the most familiar and intriguing murder cases in American history. We know ...

When I think about my life, I think about loss, and I think about murder. My biological father died when I was 2 weeks old. But when I was three, my mother married the man who became my stepfather. A ...

The Blank Theater Company’s world premiere “Dickie & Babe,” the second of two productions to open locally concerning the Leopold & Loeb case, is a better show across the board, from the level of ...

How far would you go in the name of obsession? The Lindbergh Kidnapping… The O.J. Simpson Case… The Great Train Robbery… so many crimes have been labelled the crime of the 20th Century. Not one ...

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 ...

So screamed headlines with relative frequency in the century immediately preceding this one. And if you measure impact by number of fictional adaptations, Chicago’s “Leopold and Loeb” case was ...

In the New Jewish Theatre production of "Never the Sinner," Nathan Leopold (Jack Zanger, left) and Richard Loeb (Pete Winfrey) meet with their defense attorney, Clarence Darrow (John Flack). Photo by ...