The Leopold and Loeb case, involving the kidnapping and murder of Bobby Franks in 1924 by two wealthy, Jewish University of Chicago students, sparked significant controversy and speculation, with suggestions of antisemitism influencing the excessive media attention the case received.

Hal Higdon's book, "Leopold and Loeb: The Crime of the Century Centenary Edition," revisits the notorious case of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr., two intellectually precocious Jewish teenagers from Chicago who committed a thrill killing in 1924.