Erik Rebain is an archivist who works for the Chicago Tribune and Chicago History Museum. He has spent seven years researching the life of Nathan Leopold in over forty archival collections across the United States.

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Part One: Childhood

Chapter 1: Growing Up

Chapter 2: A New Relationship

Chapter 3: Wild Lives

Part Two: Crime

Chapter 4: Planning

Chapter 5: Execution

Chapter 6: Caught

Part Three: Sentencing Hearing

Chapter 7: Incrimination

Chapter 8: The Hearing Begins

Chapter 9: The Hearing Ends

Part Four: Prison

Chapter 10: A New Code

Chapter 11: Turbulence

Chapter 12: The Prime of Life

Chapter 13: Loss

Chapter 14: Depression and New Hope

Chapter 15: Image Rehabilitation

Chapter 16: Parole

Part Five: Freedom

Chapter 17: A New Life

Chapter 18: Emerging from Seclusion

Chapter 19: Freedom

Chapter 20: Notoriety Becomes Celebrity

Chapter 21: High Life

Chapter 22: Decline and Death

Conclusion

Bibliography

About the Author

Index