Lawbreakers #3

A man named Phil starts small as a bookie taking neighborhood bets, but when the syndicate muscles in, he's forced to join their operation—and gradually pulled deeper into the organization's violent crimes. As Phil becomes complicit in multiple murders, he finds himself trapped in a world where refusing orders means death, until a wiretapped phone call becomes the evidence that seals his fate. Based on a true police case, this story traces one man's descent from petty gambling to the electric chair, revealing how the mob's grip tightens with each compromise.

George Hiers just wants to stay clean after his parole, but his corrupt parole officer, Mr. Coffee, plants a gun on him and demands a bribe—forcing the desperate young man into a life of crime to avoid going back to prison. As Hiers spirals deeper into theft and violence, the web Coffee has trapped him in tightens, and he's forced to confront what he's becoming.

A lawyer and ex-policeman devises what he believes is the perfect murder scheme—making the death of an elderly woman look like a hit-and-run accident—but Chief Dumont's detective instincts and meticulous attention to overlooked details begin to unravel the carefully laid plan. As the investigation zeroes in on Bergen and his associates, the web of evidence tightens around those who thought themselves above the law. This 1951 crime story proves that even the cleverest schemes crumble when justice refuses to look the other way.

In the remote timberlands of Canada, Mountie Blount reunites with his old friend Jim Thoreson at a lumber camp, only to discover mysterious dynamite blasts terrorizing the area—and a corpse hidden in the forest. When Blount pieces together clues from a seismographic chart, he realizes a ruthless scheme is afoot, and the person behind it will stop at nothing to keep their secret buried.

A career criminal known as Killer Matthews returns to his old neighborhood in disguise, only to cross paths with Glenn Scott—the man he crippled years earlier during a schoolyard attack. When Scott recognizes him despite the plastic surgery and alerts the F.B.I., the killer's violent past finally catches up with him in a deadly confrontation on the slum streets where it all began.