Crime

Crime History – ‘Perfect crime’ fails

By Freeman Klopott
Published May 21, 2010 4:00am ET
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On this day, May 21, 1924, two wealth University of Chicago students murdered a 14-year-old boy in what they meant to be the perfect crime.

Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold believed themselves to be supermen who could commit a crime without being caught. Turned out they weren’t.

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