Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 21, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. 1924: Friends Nathan “Babe” Leopold Jr.

When Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two well-educated college students from a wealthy suburb of Chicago, confessed to the brutal murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, the story made headlines across ...

It seems every decade has its defining murders, and you can tell a lot about an age by which homicides grab national attention, how the press frames the crimes, and the ways the cases are disposed of ...

The title—Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story—sends chills all by itself. There’s a musical about America’s most infamous “thrill killers”? How could…? Why would…? It’s a grim affair all right, real ...

Follow the story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb and their quest for the perfect crime. On a spring afternoon 100 years ago, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were affluent teenagers living in ...