Two young men in Chicago decided to try and commit the perfect crime. One was Nathan Leopold, the eighteen-year-old son of a millionaire box manufacturer. Came from a home where love was replaced with money. He loved to study different languages, by this age he knew nine different language types. He also studied birds, he when bird watching all the time. His governess was a "sexually disturbed woman who had the boy practice all sort of sexual perversions with her, distorting his young mind" (Nash 1932). Leopold was unattractive with huge, bulging eyes, a weak chin and an overactive thyroid gland. Between his governess and his appearance he was very insure with himself and his sexuality. .
The other was Richard Loeb, the seventeen-year-old son of a wealthy vice-president of Sears and Roebuck Company. Loeb was the youngest ever to graduate from the University of Michigan. Loeb was handsome but also suffered from physical defects. He had a nervous tic that sometimes he would have fainting spells. Loeb thought of himself as being an excellent detective. He read mostly detective stories and thought of crime as being some kind of game. And he wanted to play. He would often daydream about the perfect crime. .
Graduating college both boys thought they were so smart. But they needed each other feeding off one another egos. The two of them together was the perfect man the perfect superman. They could and would plan a murder to get some money. Which neither needed! For hours at a time they planned every detail. Every detail was completed; the ransom note was type, every detail except the victim was planned. The victim had to be someone that was weaker than them. Then they spotted young Bobby Franks. Leopold and Loeb then picked up fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks while he was walking home from school. While Leopold drove the car, Loeb killed the boy with a chisel. After removing all of Bobby Franks" clothes, Leopold and Loeb poured hydrochloric acid over his body to make identification more difficult.