Crime Incorporated #2

In 1928 Chicago, small-time crook Angie Ginnan pulls off a daring bank robbery—but his meticulous planning can't account for a newspaper photographer who catches the gang in action. When Angie and his crew try to silence the witness, the job spirals into murder, and the law closes in fast, forcing Ginnan and his associates Lippy Wentz and Gladys Hays on a desperate flight across the country. Watch as Angie's carefully laid plans unravel under the relentless pressure of a manhunt in this gritty 1950 crime tale.

Con artists operate two slick swindles that prey on the trusting and unsuspecting: one that exploits merchants' fear of bad checks to manufacture false arrest claims, and another that abandons hitchhiking passengers stranded and penniless on remote roads. This hard-hitting exposé lays bare the mechanics of how grifters turn honest folks into marks, one scheme at a time.

Detectives Scott Burns and Johnny Cooper track a vicious gang of robbers hitting Chicago's bookmakers, using a broken nose and a discarded phone number as their only leads. As the criminals plan an ambitious heist on a major gambling operation, the two cops work to identify and intercept them before the final score—and a potential bloodbath—comes to pass.

A young hopeful keeps trying to get Roxy's attention with urgent news, but the confident crime boss has no patience for small-time operators—until the stakes at Lee's Gambling House force a reckoning. When word reaches the gangster's hideout that someone's ready to talk, Roxy's luck may be about to run out.

This 1950 Crime Incorporated story opens with a stark look at life inside Sing Sing prison, where informants face deadly underworld vengeance behind bars—and explains why segregation, solitary confinement's prison equivalent, becomes a desperate measure for survival. The narrative then shifts to a botched robbery that sets a tragic chain of events in motion, exploring how a single moment of violence can seal a fate. A gripping examination of crime, punishment, and the consequences that follow both inside and outside prison walls.

Three small-time car thieves—Manny Salvio, Ben Hask, and The Chief—get a sudden inspiration when they hear about John Crandall's massive business fortune: why steal cars when they could kidnap a millionaire for ransom? The Chief hatches a plan to stake out Crandall at his office in the Eagle Building, setting the wheels in motion for what they're calling themselves—the Kidnap Syndicate. What begins as a desperate pivot from penny-ante theft spirals into a crime that will make front-page news across the country.