Episode 1
The Perfect Crime
Two rich Chicago boys spent seven months planning a murder. They picked their victim in the time it took to circle a block. Ten days later, it all fell apart.
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Season 1
Leopold and Loeb
Five episodes. One story about two boys who thought they were too clever to be caught.
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Re:Examined
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Episode 2
The Pact
Leopold once wrote that he expected Loeb to end their friendship or kill him. Those were the only two options he could imagine. Underneath the perfect crime was an older, darker deal between two teenagers.
Episode 3
The Collector
At six, Nathan Leopold fell in love with a room full of dead birds. He grew up to be a serious ornithologist, and a killer. The same hands did both.
Episode 4
The Performer
Richard Loeb learned to lie before he was five. By his own account, he lost track of which stories were true. He died in a shower room, and the only witness was the man who killed him.
Episode 5
Bobby Franks
He was fourteen. He got in the car because he knew the face inside it. Everything the record kept about him fits in a paragraph.