The Black Messiah Murders is based on actual events of J. Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO and other operations. The facts from the research were obtained from personal accounts of events, thousands of pages of court and public documents as well as the co-author of The Teeth In The Wind and The Black Black Messiah Murders, Shelly Waxman, J.D. The historical  dramatization and storyline was based on the book of the same title.

Portrayed as a storytellers' montage of vignettes from individuals' experiences of events surrounding the December 4th raid on the Chicago Black Panthers, the narrative unravels the prejudice and political agendas woven into J. Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO legacy of corruption.

In the winter of 1969, a coordinated raid by the local State Attorney's task forces and Chicago Police on a Black Panther apartment killed Party Chairman Fred Hampton and Mark Clark.

William O' Neal was the Panthers' Chief of Security, but he was also an FBI informant acting with J. Edgar Hoover's notorious COINTELPRO to disrupt, discredit, and destroy black organizations that threaten notions of his American society.

Motivated by Hoover's paranoia of the rise of a "Black Messiah," the Chicago FBI office  initiated one of many unconscionable criminal acts and egregious attacks on civil liberty and human rights in American history.

Sam Cohen was an Assistant U.S. Attorney then, and called upon to defend William O'Neal and the FBI from charges of civil rights violations in the killing and maiming of a group of black college-age kids. Following due diligence and careful examination of his investigation he realizes that high ranking members of the Justice Department's Federal Attorney’s office and the FBI have conspired to cover-up a political assassination of a private citizen.  When Sam unveiled a cover-up and a federal judge fixing the case, he quit his job.

Now, long since those events, a lovely young Serena Wilson appears, to learn why he left the Justice Department. Sam finds the demons that destroyed a promising career still lurk in the shadows of Chicago. They more dangerous now, then they were thirty years ago. As Sam helps Serena dig up the past it is apparent that others are watching. Their lives and the lives of Sam’s closest friends are now threatened. What  secrets in the Skeleton Closet are worth killing for?