True Crime Comics #5

Big Mike Riccitelli climbs deeper into a life of crime—armed robbery, murder, and betrayal—as he runs a brutal getaway scheme across Connecticut's small towns with the help of a terrified accomplice. When the law finally closes in after a cop killing in Stratford, Big Mike realizes he's painted himself into a corner, but he's determined to fight his way out rather than accept the reckoning that's been waiting for him all along. This is the true story of how one man's choices locked him onto a collision course with inevitable doom.

A young woman gets drawn into a criminal operation, pulling those close to her—including a man named Joe—into a dangerous world of rackets and crime. As the consequences spiral beyond her control, she watches helplessly as Joe faces trial for crimes she pushed him to commit, while her own fate hangs in the balance. This hard-hitting 1949 confession reveals how one person's choices can destroy everything around them.

She was lonely and hungry for excitement when a charming outlaw captured her heart—but loving the wrong man turned a young woman into a hardened criminal running with the Wild Bunch. As Rose of the Cimarron finds herself caught between her outlaw lover and the law closing in, she discovers that life on the wrong side of the frontier demands a ruthlessness she never expected.

William Raymond Nesbit emerges from prison determined to leave crime behind, but toxic friendships and poor choices lead him down a darker path—from extortion attempts to armed robbery and worse. When a botched crime spree spirals into violence, Nesbit and his associates must reckon with the deadly consequences of their escalating desperation. This hard-boiled tale traces how one man's refusal to reform sets him on a collision course with law and his own conscience.

Mickey Dunlap seemed headed straight for a life of crime when he's brought before Police Chief Louis Fletcher for truancy, but the chief and Officer Mike Dante try to warn the defiant boy about the real cost—and the real consequences—of choosing that path. Through the investigation of a series of holdups masterminded by criminals like Harvey Barton and Nolan, Mickey is forced to confront the truth about where crime leads, as the law closes in on those who thought they'd found an easy way out.