This week Erin tells us about Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two wealthy and highly intelligent Chicago teens who in 1924 kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a disastrous attempt to commit the so‑called “perfect crime.”
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche
https://homicide.northwestern.edu/crimes/leopold/
https://homicide.northwestern.edu/docs_fk/homicide/5866/LeopoldStatement.pdf
https://homicide.northwestern.edu/docs_fk/homicide/5866/LoebStatement.pdf