I bet the headline got your attention. This is a story of policing and street life in 1908 Kansas City. A juvenile officer roaming the streets observes 5 kids begging money for a crazy looking…
Gangland Wire
August 16, 2013
Bob Gross Serial Killer Part 2
- March 25, 2019
- Tagged as: Kansas city, kidnapping, murder, rape
In part 2 of this story of fear and horror on Kansas City streets. Gary and newspaper reporter Ian Cummings examines how Bob Gross once escaped any penalty because a rural deputy sheriff thought he…
Authorities could have predicted that a teenager named Robert “Bob” Gross might end up a suspect in sex crimes. They just did not know how far he would take his obsession. As with many sex…
A few days after D-Day in June of 1944, the Prime Minister of the New York Underworld, Frank Costello took a short cab ride. When he exited the cab, he left behind two envelopes containing…
Irish Dean, a fan from Ireland, suggested I do an episode answering fan questions about the police career of Gary Jenkins. In this bonus episode, I answer some of the many questions I received. If…
Bonus Episode Murder in Park Ridge
- March 1, 2019
- Tagged as: Chicago mafia, chicago outfit, frank cullotta, paul shiro, tony spilotro
Remember to support the podcast with your venmo app at jenkslaw or go to the website and donate at www.ganglandwire.com. Dean from Ireland just emailed and told me some great personal stories about his relative…
Paul Ricca started his mob career in Italy with a murder. By 1920, he arrived in Cuba where he met a member of the Camorra mafia named Giuseppe Esposito. Diamond Joe Esposito was a well-known mob…
As you know, this podcast runs on donations and purchases of my books, movie and the Kansas City Mob Tour app. I have over 200 free episodes out there with interviews of ex-mobsters, cops and…
Jimmy the Weasel Fratianno
- February 18, 2019
- Tagged as: chicago outfit, Jimmy the Weasel, la cosa nostra, organized crime, outfit, podcast, title 3, two tonys, wiretap
In this episode, we taped an interview with Jimmy Fratianno expert George Custer at the MobWorld Summit in our Las Vegas hotel room. We learn that Jimmy the Weasel started as a Cleveland mobster, then…
Frank Schwiehs Hijacker
- February 14, 2019
- Tagged as: Chicago mafia, chicago outfit, podcast, wiretap
In 1954, the Chicago Outfit found it lucrative to hijack trucks filled with cartons of cigarettes. They had dozens of corner stores who did not question the history of a case of Lucky Strikes if the…
Hole in the Wall Gang Part 3
January 28, 2019
Casino – the Movie
November 7, 2013
Ned Day and the Mob Part 2
June 11, 2018
Islamic Terrorist Episode 1
December 3, 2015
Kefauver hearings
March 2, 2015
Willem Holleeder Part 1
June 10, 2019
Bonus Gary Jenkins in Patrol
June 1, 2019
Gerald Scarpelli and the Wild Bunch
May 27, 2019
Butch Petrocelli and the Wild Bunch
May 20, 2019
Outfit Wild Bunch Murder Decade
May 13, 2019
Bonus episode The Chicago Tribune and the Outfit
April 27, 2019
James S. “Jimmy” Duardi
October 8, 2013
Nick Civella – A Reporter’s View
April 2, 2018
Jimmy Duardi
October 22, 2013
Carl Spero and Nick Civella
October 25, 2013
Kansas City Mafia
August 23, 2012
Serial Killers Analzyed Part 2
February 6, 2017