On 11th August 1980 cosmetics magnate and millionaire, Dean Milo, was found dead in his mansion in an affluent suburb of gritty, graceless Akron, Ohio. The murder shocked the boulevard of billion-dollar corporations that help make Akron the 'Rubber Capital' of the World. The subsequent investigation unearthed an endless list of possible conspirators, almost all of them Dean's relatives and all of them members of the Akron community.

In the 1980s, Akron was a weary town, a hodge-podge of blue-collar factory workers, shop-keepers and university students whose campus borders the factories and shops of downtown. Known as the Rubber Capital of the World, Akron was home to companies like Goodyear, Firestone, BF Goodrich and General Tire. The Akron suburbs were filled with the lawyers, CEO's and executives that ran these companies. The Milo family lived among them.

The Milo family cosmetics business had been built in Akron out of Sotir and Katina Milo's basement. As it grew, Sotir and Katina passed the business on to their three children. On paper their stake in the company was equal but in reality Dean Milo was the leader. He ran the family company like a dictator, keeping his siblings tucked safely away in the shadows, essentially paid to stay out of Dean's way. As the company opened stores throughout the mideast, the list of Dean Milo's enemies continued to grow.

On 11th August 1980, Dean was shot dead in the foyer of his own home. He was found nearly nude, face down in a pool of blood and with a sofa cushion covering his head and shoulders. There was a single bullet hole in the cushion. A blank telegramme lay near Dean's body.

As authorities began investigating Dean's death, they realised that finding Dean's killer would not be an easy task. Everyone, it seemed, wanted him dead. A private investigator and a team of local homicide police followed a trail that led them from a voluptuous go-go dancer and a hit man named The Kid', right to the doorstep of Milo's own family. Eventually authorities claimed that The Kid had carried out a contract hit on Dean and that Fred, Dean's brother, had set it up.

When all was said and done, eleven convictions were doled out for conspiracy to commit murder. The crime rocked the city of Akron and the tycoons of Rubber World were dumbfounded that a like minded well-to-do millionaire could be so abhorred by his family that they would actually resort to paying a hit man to kill him.