The Perfect Murder? The Tragic Saga of Leopold and Loeb
They thought they were Supermen who could murder a child and get away with it. They were wrong.
In the 1920s, all the press and the public’s attention was pointed to an affluent area of Chicago, Illinois. Two young men who had everything going for them were now facing being sentenced to being hanged by the neck until dead or if they were lucky a lifetime behind bars.
What had driven these two privileged, brilliant men to commit such an evil crime? Furthermore, how did this supposedly “perfect crime” lead to this? How did it go so wrong?
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