Footnotes have been removed from the pages of this website to discourage creative "borrowing".  Below is a partial bibliography for further research.You may cite leopoldandloeb.com as a reference. See my   copyright  information for how to Cite this website in your research. Note that original work contained on Leopoldandloeb.com is copyrighted except as falls under "fair use". If you quote original work from leopoldandloeb.com please give me credit. Thanks. If you wish to contact me directly, you may email me. Note with the exception of 4 sources listed below, all material presented here is in my posession. This list is not complete and is always being added to. If you have questions about any source listed below please feel free to contact me. Several of the sources listed below are out of print. Some are one of a kind. However, many of the books and periodicals are accessible after a bit of research. The following online sites, as well as your local library,  are great places to search for out of print works;  www.ebay.com,  Abebooks.com, Bibliofind.com, Alibris, Addall.com. If you live in a small town, your library may be able to obtain books from larger cities in your state for you to use through inter library loan. Ask your Librarian.

Movies, Plays and Historical Fiction

Movies and plays are listed at the top of this page simply due to their accessibility. Each link leads to an in depth review of the movie, play or book. These are good starting off points and points of reference for further study. None are completely factual however, and should not be viewed as gospel nor should they be used in acquiring factual information for research without verifying.

Rope. 1948. *

Compulsion. 1959. *

Swoon. 1992. *

Murder by Numbers 2002.

Never the Sinner (1987, Play) *

Semblance of Balance (2002. Historical fiction novel) *

Sources for Further Study.

Primary

Official Transcript of People vs. Nathan F Leopold Jr and Richard Loeb *

Higdon, Hal  Leopold and Loeb: The Crime of the Century*

Leopold, Nathan Life Plus Ninety Nine Years*

Leopold, Nathan. The Castaner Community. 1959.(In my possession.) *

Leopold, Nathan. Influence of Castaner on My Own Personality. 1959 (In my possession) *

Darrow, Clarence Why I am an Agnostic and Other Essays

Darrow, Clarence The Story of My Life

Gertz, Elmer A handful of clients *

Gertz, Elmer. To Life, McGraw-Hill *

McKernan, Maureen The Amazing Crime and Trial of Leopold and Loeb *

Sellers, Alvin. The Loeb-Leopold Case *

Stone, Irving. Clarence Darrow for the Defense *

Levin, Meyer. Compulsion*

Wright, William Harvard's Secret Court : The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals

Newspapers

New York Evening Post. May 21- June 20, 1924, July 1, 1924- Aug 15, 1924 *

New York Times. June 1, 1924- Aug 25. 1924

Chicago Tribune. June 1-Aug 18, 1924

Periodicals

Fass, Paula S. "Making and Remaking an Event : The Leopold and Loeb Case in American Culture". Vol 80. No. 3 Journal of American History *

Saturday Evening Post  April 2, 1955, April 9, 1955, April16, 1955, April 23, 1955 *

Life Magazine  March 4, 1957 *

Secondary

Bernard, Bernard. A Complete Book of Sex Knowledge, Helath and Life Publications 1927 *

Logan, John. Never the Sinner, Overlook Press, 1988 *

Werner, M.R. Julius Rosenwald; The Life of a Practical Humanitarian 1939 *

Levin,Meyer In search: An autobiography *

Erickson, Gladys. Warden Ragen of Joliet *

Warren, Paul. Next Time is For Life*

Periodicals

Confidential Magazine  Vol 6 # 2 June 1958 *

Murder Casebook No 27. "Chicago's Rich Kid Killers" *

Time Magazine February, 1936 *

Real Life Crimes Vol 3 # 37. "Leopold and Loeb, Not such a Perfect Murder" *

Documentary VHS or DVD

Born Killers

Related

The Basic Writings of Sigmond Freud

Cap and Gown, University of Chicago, 1923 Yearbook *

Chicago Then and Now

Chicago's Loop-Then and Now

Hyde Park, Illinois; Images of America

Lost Chicago

Deutsch, Armand. Me and Bogie. Putnum, 1991 *

Famous Crimes of the 20th Century

Me and Bogie: And Other Friends and Acquaintances from a Life in Hollywood and Beyond

Good Old Days: A History of American Morals and Manners as Seen through the Sears, Roebuck Catalogs, 1905 to the Present

Hope, Laurence. India's Love Lyrics *

Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil, Thus Spoke Zarathustra Ecce Homo, The Geneology of Morals, The Birth of Tragedy, *

Ross, Lillian. A Love Story *

Van Sacher Masoch, Venus in Furs *

Michiganensian, University of Michigan, 1923 *

Michiganensian, University of Michigan, 1924 *

University of Michigan Student Directory, 1924. *

Chicago Daily News Almanac 1924 *

Zierold, Norman  Little Charley Ross *

Brophy, John. The Meaning of Murder *

Jones, Richard Glynn. Killer Couples *

Martin, Wyndham, Anthony Trent;Master Criminal *

Rinehart, Mary Roberts, The Circular Staircase *

Kohler, Joachim Zarathustra's Secret*

* indicates item in my posession