Crime Does Not Pay #44

This anthology issue contains multiple true crime stories. One story follows Ray Lamphere, a hired man who murders his employer Mrs. Gunness and buries three men in her cellar before being caught and executed by poison gas. Another story chronicles Thomas, a ship's officer who murders fellow sailors and stages shipwrecks for insurance money, eventually being apprehended and facing execution. The issue is presented as a collection of real criminal cases with a stated 68 pages and a sixteen-page surprise feature.