Killers Among Us: The Tattoo Man

A Standalone True Crime Investigation

In the early hours of a humid Florida morning, a respected attorney’s quiet neighborhood became the starting point of a brutal crime no one saw coming.

Attorney Cynthia Campbell was reliable to a fault. She never missed work. She never ignored appointments. So when her front door stood open all morning and her car remained in the driveway, those who knew her understood immediately something was wrong.

The last person to see her alive was the man next door. Known around the neighborhood only as the “Tattoo Man,” Norman Mearle Grim was a small, heavily-tatted ex-con with a long history of violence and impulsive crimes. He was also the first to alert police to broken windows at Campbell’s home, an act that initially made him appear helpful.

Within hours of the cops leaving, Cynthia Campbell vanished.

What followed was a rapidly unfolding investigation marked by evasive behavior, missed opportunities, and mounting suspicion. As deputies retraced Campbell’s final hours, unique patterns began to emerge and Grim’s past would come back to haunt him.

By the time a fisherman snagged a body in Pensacola Bay, investigators were racing to catch a man who had already slipped away.

This standalone true crime investigation reconstructs the bizarre circumstances surrounding the murder of Cynthia Campbell.

The Tattoo Man is an entry point into the Killers Among Us series, an ongoing collection of overlooked murder cases drawn from decades of documented research.