It's the Great Depression, when failed banks and businesses caused some to turn to crime. And though we may know names like John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, and Pretty Boy Floyd, few have heard of John Henry Seadlund, who J. Edgar Hoover termed "the nation's cruelest criminal" and Public Enemy #1.
When Minnesota's iron mines shut down, Seadlund can't find work. After a chance encounter with a member of Dillinger's gang, he turns to crime...