A close and personal look into the lives of murderers and the murdered in the city of Hamilton Ontario, Canada. The stories were inspired by the destruction of the old Hamilton City Jail. The sad story of an Irish renegade and his common law wife. The much maligned butcher of Hamilton. Ben Parrett's tragic demise and the frantic murder of his taunting mother. A cheating barefaced liar plies his wit and tries to out manoeuvre a cunning policeman. A man who swore his innocence to the very end. The hapless slaughter of a beautiful woman and the ensuing insanity that rocked the world. A madman kills then runs amok in the city jail.