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Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. (November 19, 1904 – August 29, 1971) [1] and Richard Albert Loeb (/ ˈ l oʊ b /; June 11, 1905 – January 28, 1936), usually referred to collectively as Leopold and Loeb, were two American students at the University of Chicago who kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago, Illinois, United States, on May 21, 1924.
Compulsion is a 1956 crime novel by the American writer Meyer Levin.Set in 1924 Chicago, it is inspired by the real-life Leopold and Loeb trial, and was a best seller. [1] Two college students kidnap and kill a boy in order to prove they can get away with the perfect crime.
Compulsion is a 1959 American crime drama film directed by Richard Fleischer.The film is based on the 1956 novel by Meyer Levin, which in turn was a fictionalized account of the Leopold and Loeb murder trial.
Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story is a musical with a book, music, and lyrics by Stephen Dolginoff. It is based on the true story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb , the so-called "thrill killers" who murdered a young boy in 1924 in order to commit "the perfect crime."
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May 21, 1924: University students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks. Leopold, aged 19 at the time, and Loeb, 18, believed themselves to be Nietzschean Übermenschen who could commit a "perfect crime" (in this case a kidnapping and murder). Both were sentenced to life imprisonment plus 99 years; Loeb ...
His mother, Sharon, remembered that he had to earn the right to sit in a chair, to drink anything other than milk or water, and to make phone calls. To move up in the ranks, he had to offer a series of confessions, but he was not considered convincing enough.
Stephen Dolginoff is an American playwright and composer. His most notable work is Thrill Me, the musical version of the true story of Leopold and Loeb, which opened Off-Broadway at the York Theatre in 2005, [1] featuring Dolginoff himself as Nathan Leopold. [2]