Chicago, May 21, 1924.
Why would wealthy young men murder an innocent boy? What demons lurked behind Loeb\'s flashing good looks? Behind Leopold\'s saturnine intellect? This exquisite Off-Broadway hit explores the complex r.
Clarence Darrow defended them, pleading eloquently against capital punishment.
They were quickly apprehended when Leopold\'s glasses were found near the corpse.
Nathan Leopold Jr., age eighteen, and Robert Loeb, age nineteen, killed fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks.
Chicago, May 21, 1924