Murder Incorporated #8

"Murder, Incorporated" #8 features the lead story "Ken Bailey—'Hopeless' Killer," a true crime narrative about Kenneth William Bailey, a young criminal with a history of petty theft who was raised in the Oregon mountains by an uncle and taught to use guns. Bailey's criminal career escalated, leading to a police manhunt in which he and accomplices engaged in a shootout in the hills; Bailey was wounded but ultimately captured. The story concludes with Bailey's execution by gas chamber in Oregon on September 13, 1946, delivering the moral that crime never pays.