Leopold and Loeb: The grisly 'crime of the century' that fascinated Hitchcock and others

One hundred years ago, wealthy Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb brutally murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks. Why is popular culture obsessed with this horrific case?

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