Imagine living in a small Midwestern town where every pothole, every broken police car, every delayed road project… all had one thing in common: the money for it was stolen.

For twenty-two years, Dixon, Illinois trusted one woman — their longtime comptroller, Rita Crundwell. What they didn’t know was that she secretly siphoned off over fifty-three million dollars from city funds… making it the largest municipal fraud in American history.

How did no one notice? How did she pull it off? And what happened when everything finally fell apart?