This book covers over 200 years worth of various crimes, robberies, murders, and serial killers of Licking County and Ohio. It also details famous criminals and lawmen who either stayed in Ohio or became famous in the other parts of the U.S. Billy Brooks who left Croton Ohio and became a lawman turned criminal in Kansas who was lynched. Other lawmen from Ohio such as Judge Issac Parker, the Hanging Judge, Deputy U.S. Marshal Lafe Shadley who was murdered by the Dalton brothers, and Eliot Ness of Al Capone fame and criminals such as Whiskey Dick Percoco, and Charles Manson are detailed.