Don’t forget to buy me a shot and a beer or a cup of coffee using venmo. My venmo name is ganglandwire. I just finished a weeklong motorcycle tour of Bonnie and Clyde sites with…
Kefauver hearings
March 2, 2015
Louis “Lepke” Buchalter was a 1930s New York City racketeer. Authorities believed Albert Anastasia appointed him to run his Murder, Inc., enforcement squad. Crime buster Thomas Dewey will set his sights in Lepke as an…
In this story about Willem Holleeder, I interview a Netherlands based crime writer David Amaruso about the John Gotti of Holland. Willem Holleeder burst into the European public’s imagination for his audacious kidnapping of Heineken…
A fan asked for stories from the career of Gary Jenkins, your host, so in this bonus episode, I describe the life of a young police officer named Gary Jenkins (Oh! me?) I was assigned…
Gerald “Gerry” Scarpelli was a Chicago Outfit hit men who specialized in armored car heists and bank robberies. Early FBI records show him as a member of Al Pilotto’s Chicago Height’s crew, but it is…
Don’t forget to buy me a coffee on Venmo at ganglandwire. This week, Chicago writer and Outfit historian, Camillius “Cam” Robinson and I talk about Butch Petrocelli and the Wild Bunch. As a special bonus…
Outfit Wild Bunch Murder Decade
- May 13, 2019
- Tagged as: Calabrese, chicago, chicago outfit, family secrets, gerald scarpelli, harry aleman, murder, Scalise, wild b unch
In Chicago, law enforcement documented 31 Outfit-connected murders between 1980 and 1989. Scott Burnstein and his Gangster Report article was the inspiration for this podcast. Outfit terrorists named Jerry Scalise, Jerry Scarpelli, William “Butchie” Petrocelli,…
Bonus episode The Chicago Tribune and the Outfit
- April 27, 2019
- Tagged as: aiuppa, chicago outfit, chicago tribune, Giancana, paul ricca, Sam Giancana, Tony Accardo
In this special bonus episode, I thank our generous contributors with an extra episode in which our most faithful fan, Chicago resident and mob historian Ben Ellickson does a dramatic read of an in-depth article…
After a life devoted to crime in his teens and early 20s, Roy Demeo would eventually become a made man of the Gambino crime family Additionally, he became a proficient killer who will live on…
When researching organized crime murders, sometimes there are clues that tip us off to what may have really happened. We recently discussed the Wild Bunch, a crew of Chicago Outfit hitmen in the 1970s, and…
Paul the Waiter Ricca
February 25, 2019
Nick Civella and the Super Bowl
December 29, 2015
Kansas City Mafia
August 23, 2012
Nick Civella
June 26, 2014
Jamaican Drug Posses – Part 3
May 23, 2016
Bonnie and Clyde Motorcycle Tour
July 3, 2019
The execution of Louis Lepke Buchalter
June 24, 2019
Willem Holleeder Part 2
June 17, 2019
Willem Holleeder Part 1
June 10, 2019
Bonus Gary Jenkins in Patrol
June 1, 2019
Gerald Scarpelli and the Wild Bunch
May 27, 2019
James S. “Jimmy” Duardi
October 8, 2013
Kansas City Mafia
August 23, 2012
Nick Civella – A Reporter’s View
April 2, 2018
Jimmy Duardi
October 22, 2013
Carl Spero and Nick Civella
October 25, 2013
Serial Killers Analzyed Part 2
February 6, 2017