Chicago's Leopold and Loeb case — 'One of America's Most Infamous Crimes' — detailed in new book

"The Leopold and Loeb Files" by Nina Barrett; Agate Midway (304 pages, $35)

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Nearly 100 years ago - Wednesday, May 21, 1924, a bit after 5 p.m. to be precise - 14-year-old Bobby Franks was lured into a car as he walked toward his Hyde Park home. He was beaten to death by two wealthy University of Chicago students, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, who dumped the boy's body near Wolf Lake in Indiana, confessed to the murder and were brought to trial for what would become, perhaps until O.J. came calling, the "Crime of the Century."

You know of this tragedy as surely as you know details of the St. Valentine' Day Massacre, the evil doings of that "devil" H.H.