Vintage Photos of History’s Most Notorious Killers

Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb

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University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were rich, smart, and total sociopaths. They tricked Bobby Franks into getting in their car as he headed home from a baseball game on May 21, 1924. Then they used a chisel to strike him in the head and kill him. Their reason behind it was “the pure love of excitement.”

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