Marc B. Ray

A disturbed boy kills his father with his farm tractor and his arm is mangled in the process. He's taken to a mental hospital where he's outfitted with a hook to replace his lost hand and, years later, he's eventually released from the asylum. He returns home to find his mother has remarried, which sets him off on a murderous rampage. (IMDB)

Roger Pitman, a small-time grifter and crook, works with police-detective Alex Brogan in trapping fellow thieves with bait money. Pitman decides to take some of this money and seek the good life in Miami Beach, but Brogan is never far behind.