In 1962, FBI agents knock on the door of a two-room rental in Atlanta, and one of America’s ten most wanted men answers in his underwear, laughing. Ed Edwards never wore a mask, and he wanted the world to know his name.

We follow Ed from an Ohio orphanage through stolen cars, marriages, jailbreaks, a fake psychiatrist named Dr. Jerry Love, and a jail escape that came up eight bed sheets short.

Then comes his reinvention: a prison guard who “lit a fire in him,” a redemption memoir, a lecture circuit, and a guest spot on To Tell the Truth.

By Christmas 1975, he’s a family man in a small Ohio village, and the whole town has accepted him. Everyone liked Ed.