Authentic Police Cases #20

In 1952, a gang led by Mac Jones orchestrates a string of truck hijackings, aided by inside information from a desperate dispatcher they've coerced into cooperation—but their greed and a moment of carelessness during one job draws the attention of the F.B.I. As federal agents close in on the operation, the criminals find their perfect racket unraveling faster than they expected. Will their combination of cunning and muscle be enough to stay ahead of the law?

When small-time hood Longie Proctor seizes his chance to rise to the top of the underworld during the chaos of 1950's crime hearings, he launches a violent campaign to muscle in on the rackets of the established bosses. But as Longie climbs higher, the evidence from his crimes—including a crucial topcoat left behind—begins to pile up against him, and Special Prosecutor Jim Cosgrove closes in with an ironclad case. Longie's own ruthlessness may become the trap that finally catches him.

When a sinister black-marketeer named Bruno Marin murders a steel mill representative to protect his illegal operation, Detective Wayne Mayo's investigation into an apparent shakedown victim uncovers a chilling pattern of deaths—each carefully disguised as accident or natural causes. As Mayo traces the connections between multiple killings and Marin's seemingly legitimate business front, a trivial clue from the criminal underworld begins to unravel a scheme that's funneled millions in scarce wartime steel onto the black market. This authentic 1952 case shows how even the most calculated killer can slip up when the wrong person starts asking the right questions.

A wave of hotel burglaries targeting wealthy celebrities sweeps New York in the fall of 1951, leaving detectives baffled—until film director Wayne Douglas and screen star Linda Dailey return to their suite to find a gun-wielding intruder waiting in the shadows. Detectives Adrian Dowling and Clem Hurley take the case and begin piecing together clues from the crime scene and the victims' descriptions, following a trail that leads them closer to the phantom thieves than anyone expected.

A trio of bandits prowl the Florida waterways, robbing luxury yachts in broad daylight and using cunning tactics to cover their tracks—until a hidden ship-to-shore radio alerts police to their latest strike. When Don and his uncle Charlie's quick thinking provides investigators with a crucial clue, Detective Bert Larkin must track the suspects through the swamps and into the city before they vanish for good.