013 Joe Chill

#013 Joe Chill - The man that started it all. Desperate and craven, the criminal known as Joe “Chill” was a working-class man who feel on harder times during the lead up to the Great Depression when he lost his job as a Gotham dock worker when he was caught smuggling contraband alcohol for Falcone Shipping by a GCPD sting operation. Faced with limited options he tried working his underworld connections with no luck, pick pocketing and street hustling couldn’t make ends meet, so his Falcone connection gave him a gun and suggested he try a more aggressive strategy. He did, his first attempt at mugging a couple turned disastrous when he got so nervous he killed the husband who lunged after him and then startled, shoot the wife when she screamed. Terrified, Joe fled leaving a young witness behind as he disappeared into the Gotham night.