Crime Does Not Pay #133 (1954)

In the aftermath of a violent bank heist three years prior, Mike Hauser flees to prison, leaving his lover Lili Ravell with half a million dollars in cash—only to return as a free man and reassemble his gang with two fellow inmates, including the deadly Silent Joe Crammek. As the Murder Mad Gang of East City begins eliminating rival mobsters, Lili’s loyalty is tested, and the line between love, trust, and survival blurs in a city drowning in blood and secrets.

Jo, a young woman on parole, reunites with Nick Parris, her former criminal partner, after her release from prison, but their uneasy reunion is interrupted when she encounters Larry, a kind stranger who offers her a chance at a new life. As Nick grows increasingly possessive and violent, Jo must choose between the dangerous past she’s trying to escape and the fragile hope offered by a man who sees her as more than just a thief.

Albert Paley, a man with a sudden windfall from a lucky card game, becomes entangled with Connie Elye, a glamorous woman who dismisses his winnings as "peanuts." Drawn into her world, he commits two robberies to prove himself, only to realize too late that he was set up as a decoy in a larger scheme.

In a 1954 tale of delusion and violence, a man named Alex Parsons, obsessed with his namesake the conqueror, spirals from petty crime into a murderous rampage after escaping a psychiatric hospital. As his reign of terror spreads across Maryland, fueled by a belief in his own greatness and a growing body count, law enforcement closes in—only to find that his madness may be his only defense.