Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection: Case files, exhibits, and testimony regarding People of the State of Illinois vs. Nathan F. Leopold, Jr. and Richard Loeb (1924), and several civil suits of Nathan F. Leopold, Jr. vs. Levin, et al.Leopold and Loeb were University of Chicago students, sons of wealthy and prominent Chicago families. In the first case, Leopold and Loeb (then 19) kidnapped and murdered 15-year old Bobby Franks; the case commanded...