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Famous Crimes #18
Famous Crimes #18 This issue presents true crime stories drawn from police files. The featured story chronicles the criminal career of Frankie Vale, a mobster involved in the Charlie Sawyer murder and various underworld operations in Chicago and Brooklyn, whose reign of violence and brutality ultimately ended when he was shot and killed. A second story follows the case of Mona, a woman who used her beauty and charm to commit store robberies and other crimes, evading police detection until her criminal activities were finally exposed and she was apprehended.