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In 1924, University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were young, rich, and looking for a thrill. The crime that came next - the brutal, cold-blood murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks - would come to captivate the country and unfold into what many dubbed the crime of the century. As the decades passed, the mythology surrounding the unlikely killers continued to capture the interest of new generations, spawning numerous books, fictionalizations, and dramatizations.In The Leopold and Loeb Files, author Nina Barrett returns to the primary sources - confessions, interrogation transcripts, psychological reports, and more - the kind of rare, pre-computer court documents that were usually destroyed as a matter of course. Until now, these documents have not been part of the murder's central narrative.