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  1. Leopold and Loeb, who were 19 and 18, respectively, at the time, settled on kidnapping and murdering a younger adolescent as their perfect crime. They spent seven months planning everything, from the method of abduction to disposal of the body.

  2. A perfect crime is a crime that is undetected, unattributed to an identifiable perpetrator, or otherwise unsolved or unsolvable. The term is used colloquially in law and fiction (especially crime fiction) for both crimes committed as crimes foremost, and those committed as a kind of technical achievement on the part of the perpetrator.

  3. Two wealthy and brilliant young men kidnapped and murdered a child in 1924 for the thrill of it. They were caught and tried by attorney Clarence Darrow, who argued for their insanity and failed to save them from the death penalty.

  4. Mar 24, 2019 · On May 21, 1924, two brilliant, wealthy, Chicago teenagers attempted to commit the perfect crime just for the thrill of it. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped 14-year-old Bobby Franks, bludgeoned him to death in a rented car, and then dumped Franks' body in a distant culvert.

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  5. Apr 10, 2018 · The Perfect Crime. In love with murder. When Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two well-educated college students from a wealthy suburb of Chicago, confessed to the brutal murder of...

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  6. Oct 22, 2021 · In 1924, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb set out to commit the “perfect crime.” The teens thought they were clever enough to get away with murder, and they spent months plotting out their foolproof scheme. That May, Leopold and Loeb kidnapped and killed a 14-year-old boy named Bobby Franks. At first, everything went as planned.

  7. May 14, 2024 · Together with his friend Robert Loeb, Leopold planned and executed what was supposed to be the “perfect crime.” The two young men murdered a 14-year-old boy named Bobby Franks and dumped his body in a culvert.