- After his release in 1958, Leopold moved to Puerto Rico where he studied birds, taught mathematics at the University of Puerto Rico, and worked as an x-ray technician in a hospital operated by The Church of the Brethren. After his death in 1971, his will instructed that his body be donated to the University of Puerto Rico for medical research
- Released on parole in 1958 after thirty-three years in prison.
- With his best friend, Richard Loeb, he kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Robert E. Franks (Bobby Franks) in Chicago.
- He claimed to have studied fifteen languages and be fluent in five.
- He claimed to have spoken his first words at four months old.
- At the time of the Bobby Franks murder, Leopold had completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago with Phi Beta Kappa honors and planned to begin studies at Harvard Law School after a trip to Europe.
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