He saved the lives of two cold-blooded child-killers with the power of a speech. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were teenagers living in a wealthy Chicago suburb when they were arrested for murder.

On the afternoon of May 21, 1924, Franks came across 18-year-old Richard Loeb ... Far from a whodunit, Loeb and 19-year-old Nathan Leopold confessed to the murder ten days later, after they ...

Teenagers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb cruised around a leafy section of Chicago on the idyllic spring afternoon of May 21, 1924, searching for a neighborhood boy to kill. The duo weren’t ...

That dubious honor goes to two young Jewish men accused of committing the “crime of the century” over 90 years ago — Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. The names Leopold and Loeb live on ...

If a whodunnit is your murder-mystery cup of tea, “Never the Sinner” may not be up your alley. But if the psychology of a ...

The investigation into his murder would lead to two unlikely suspects -- the young, wealthy, educated Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. Their trial would capture the nation's attention as famed ...

John Logan’s first play, Never the Sinner, was based on the real-life trial of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, whose murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924 was one of the most notorious crimes of ...

Set in 1924 Chicago, it chronicles the events that led childhood friends Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb to forever be remembered as "the thrill killers." ...

Leopold and Loeb. Some people should never meet! Teen-age prodigies Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, harmless alone but lethal in combination, are fused together by an intense bond of common guilt ...

The Factory Arts Project will present Never the Sinner, a gripping drama by Tony Award-winning playwright John Logan. The ...