Leopold and Loeb: The "Perfect Crime" and the Murder of Bobby Franks

Podcast: DEADLY INTENT · Carman Carrion

Opublikowano: 2026-08-12

In May 1924, fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks got into a car with someone he knew and trusted. Minutes later he was dead — not for money, not out of hatred, but as anexperiment. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb had every advantage the world could offer: brilliant minds, immense wealth, futures wide open. And they spent nearly a year planning the murder of a child to prove a single idea they heldabout themselves — that they were exceptional enough to stand above the rules that bind everyone else. This week on Deadly Intent, we sit with the case that this whole...