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370: Yearnin’ for More Learnin'

370: Yearnin’ for More Learnin'

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This week Erin tells us about Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two wealthy and highly intelligent Chicago teens who in 1924 kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a disastrous attempt to commit the so‑called “perfect crime.”

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche

https://homicide.northwestern.edu/crimes/leopold/

https://homicide.northwestern.edu/docs_fk/homicide/5866/LeopoldStatement.pdf

https://homicide.northwestern.edu/docs_fk/homicide/5866/LoebStatement.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb

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