"The "New York Times" wrote, "The story is familiar, the script and lyrics are not especially innovative, but somehow... Dolginoff's pocket musical about the Leopold and Loeb murder case lands like a well-placed punch, arresting and a bit breathtaking... Credit [the] lean approach to the storytelling... Others have told the tale in plays and films, but there is something brazenly satisfying about Mr. Dolginoff's rendition... [It]'s a reminder that evil often looks and sounds beautiful.