麻豆约拍

Two rich and educated teenage boys killed Bobby Franks, an acquaintance, in Chicago back in May 1924.

They thought they had carried out the perfect crime.

But they were soon caught and put on trial.

Vincent Dowd investigates the motives of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.

A murder case that went on to inspire Rope, a stage play written in 1929 which was later turned into the 1948 Alfred Hitchcock thriller.

Producer: Vincent Dowd

First broadcast on the 麻豆约拍 World Service in 2011.