Crime and Punishment #1

"Genius" Rosso burns down his own studio to collect insurance in 1930 New York, but the fire marshal's investigation uncovers a web of lies—from forged masterpieces to fabricated credentials and exaggerated claims of artistic greatness. As evidence mounts that Rosso is nothing but a con artist, the truth behind his elaborate scheme comes into focus at trial.

For more than a quarter century, Peter Kurten terrorized Dusseldorf with a campaign of random violence that gripped the city in fear, until his 1904 arrest and surprising release in 1913 reignited his reign of terror. As murders mount and panic spreads, Inspector Gennaut and the city's desperate citizenry race to stop a killer whose brutality seems unstoppable—but Kurten may have finally made a mistake that could lead to his undoing. This true crime story chronicles one of history's most ruthless killers and the desperate hunt to bring him to justice.

In Allendale, New Jersey thirty years ago, rival gamecock operators Happy McNulty and Fancy Campbell engage in a bitter competition over whose fighting birds reign supreme—until McNulty sneaks into Campbell's operation to spy on his prize roosters. When Campbell's prized cocks vanish that very night, suspicion falls hard on McNulty, setting off a chain of events that teaches Campbell a harsh lesson about the price of crime.