The Perfect Crime: The Leopold & Loeb Trial

The Perfect Crime tells the disturbing story of how two wealthy and highly intelligent college students, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, murdered a 14-year-old boy named Bobby Franks in 1924 in order to prove that they could commit the perfect crime and get away with it.

When the seemingly unlikely killers confessed to the crime and boasted that they had committed it purely for the thrill, the case made nationwide headlines. The documentary covers their trial alongside the efforts of prominent anti-death-penalty lawyer Clarence Darrow to spare them from the gallows, sparking a national debate on capital punishment, morality, and the psychology of the perpetrators.