Wanted Comics #46

Charles Binaggio climbs from unemployed drifter to fearless enforcer after a chance meeting with Kansas City crime boss Johnny Lazia, but his rapid ascent through the underworld puts him squarely in the path of a far more dangerous force—the Mafia. When brutal retaliation strikes close to home, Binaggio must reckon with the deadly consequences of operating in a territory where no one faction can claim true control. This is the true-crime account of one man's rise and fall in Kansas City's dark underbelly, based on the shocking events of April 6, 1950.

Charles Edward Crews, a young drifter, accepts a ride from a kindly motorist on a cold Tennessee night—a decision that sets a tragic chain of events in motion. Based on the details and wanted poster featured in this 1952 non-fiction account from *Wanted Comics*, this is the story of how a chance encounter on a highway led to murder and escape. Read on to see how the law ultimately caught up with this fugitive.

Two vicious drifters, Carl and Ernie Benty, terrorize a state with a deadly roadside robbery scheme—until they make the mistake of taking a young woman hostage during what should've been just another job. When Ernie decides to force her into marriage to silence her as a witness, he sets in motion a chain of events that threatens to destroy the brothers' brutal partnership. Based on actual police files, "Blood Brothers" traces how one girl's presence upends the cold calculation that's kept these murderers one step ahead of the law.

Law enforcement seeks Sydney Gordon Martin—also known as William J. Bishop—for a brutal assault that left a farmer gravely wounded near Belchertown, Massachusetts on the night of June 1, 1950. After gaining the farmer's trust with a false story about a stranded car, Martin produced a gun and demanded money, attacking his victim when resistance proved too loud. The criminal remains at large, and Wanted Comics offers a $100 reward for information leading to his arrest.

A teenage girl waiting for a bus becomes the first victim of a ruthless crime wave preying on women in a Northern city, and Detective Lieutenant Cicerone finds himself pursuing the attackers with almost no physical evidence—until a crucial detail about a taxi's special meter gives him a new direction. Desperate to stop the increasingly bold criminals, Cicerone devises an audacious undercover plan that puts him directly in harm's way on the very streets where the attacks began. This is a "Girl Trap," a true-crime account based on actual police files from Wanted Comics #46.