The Perfect Crime

The shocking true story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two wealthy college students who murdered a 14-year-old boy in 1924 to prove they were smart enough to get away with it. When Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two well-educated college students from a wealthy suburb of Chicago, confessed...

53 min - True Crime - American Experience

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