Compulsion Part 2 Of 2

The mid 1920s introduced Americans to a new type of murder: two immensely wealthy eighteen-year-old university graduates from Chicago randomly kidnapped & murdered a little boy, attempted to obliterate the identity & sex of the body before hiding it & then tried to collect the ransom - simply as an intellectual experiment. The author attempts to discover the psychology of the two young men, to understand how the two of them, Leopold & Loeb, one of them handsome & popular, the other quiet & scholarly, were capable of an act so far beyond rational understanding