The Terrible Death of a Child and the Justification of His Two Young Murderers: “It Was Like Impaling a Beetle on a Pin”

On May 21, 1924, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two college students from Chicago, USA, kidnapped and murdered Bobby Franks, a 14-year-old boy living near their homes. His only motive was to commit a perfect crime: “It was just an experiment,” one of them said.