The 1924 murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, and their defense by Clarence Darrow, raised profound and disturbing questions about social class, criminal psychology, morality, justice, and mercy.

Join Nina Barrett, author of The Leopold and Loeb Files: An Intimate Look at One of America’s Most Infamous Crimes, for a talk about why, 95 years later, these issues continue to haunt us, and remain relevant, today. Copies of her book will be available for purchase and autograph.

Read/view/listen to interviews with Author Nina Barrett at WTTW and WGN-TV.

Presented by Friends of the Edgewater Library.