All-Famous Crime #9

Dean Ellis was a ruthless criminal fresh out of prison, determined to organize a mob and pull off the perfect score—until a botched jewelry store heist during which he killed a defenseless old man sets him spiraling into unexpected remorse. As the law closes in and Ellis faces execution, the warden discovers something rare in the criminal underworld: a murderer wracked by conscience, and the shocking truth about why Ellis no longer wants to live.

Alvin "Old Creepy" Karpis launches a crime career that starts with armed robbery as a teenager in Topeka, Kansas, and escalates through theft, safe-cracking, and violent encounters with the law. Years later, after prison time, he reunites with criminal contacts to orchestrate a daring armored car heist, but when the plan unravels and his partner is shot, Karpis's cold brutality and obsession with power set him on a collision course with the authorities. A gritty crime chronicle that traces how a young punk's refusal to follow rules hardens him into a hardened criminal mastermind.

When a young couple is found murdered in a secluded grove five years before the main story, detectives discover a chilling pattern: the killer bears a tell-tale tattoo and appears driven by twisted jealousy. After years of silence, murders resume, and a crucial witness finally comes forward to identify a tattooed sailor named Richard Leroy—setting the stage for the detectives to close in on their elusive quarry.