Gangland Wire
Gangland Wire Crime Stories is a unique true crime podcast. The host, Gary Jenkins, is a former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective. Gary uses his experience to give insigtful twists on famous organized characters across the United States. He tells crime stories from his own career and invites former FBI agents, police officers and criminals to educate and entertain listeners.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 547
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
Bonus episode The Chicago Tribune and the Outfit
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-d…
Sat 27 Apr 2019
Roy DeMeo
How did Roy DeMeo get into a Life of Crime
Roy Albert DeMeo was born into the Mafia neighborhood of Bath Beach Brooklyn. As a teenager, he starts loansharking while enrolled in James Madison High Sch…
Roy Albert DeMeo was born into the Mafia neighborhood of Bath Beach Brooklyn. As a teenager, he starts loansharking while enrolled in James Madison High Sch…
Mon 22 Apr 2019
Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso Part 2
As Anthony Casso progressed in his mob career, he became more suspicious and violent. One of the many interesting stories about Gaspipe is his interactions with the Russian Mafia of Brighton Beach. G…
Mon 15 Apr 2019
Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso part 1
Gaspipe Casso – the early years
Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso was born May 21, 1940. Before his career ended with the U. S. Marshal’s office and Witness Security, mob bosses would promote him to the formal…
Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso was born May 21, 1940. Before his career ended with the U. S. Marshal’s office and Witness Security, mob bosses would promote him to the formal…
Mon 08 Apr 2019
Bob Gross Serial Killer Part 2
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 c…
Mon 25 Mar 2019
Bob Gross Serial Killer part 1
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 offenders,…
Mon 18 Mar 2019
Frank Costello and the Honest Cabbie
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 $27,200.00…
Mon 11 Mar 2019
Chris Spina and Chicago Corruption
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 federal…
Wed 20 Feb 2019
Jimmy the Weasel Fratianno
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, the…
Mon 18 Feb 2019
Frank Schwiehs Hijacker
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 …
Thu 14 Feb 2019
Women and Undercover Narcotics
In this episode, we interview retired Undercover Detective Reyne Reyes. She worked in the most dangerous job of all the Street Narcotics Units before she arrived to work for your host in the Intellig…
Mon 11 Feb 2019
The Great River Hills Caper
River Hills
In keeping with last months subject about a team of cops running surveillance and catching somebody during a caper, this bonus episode Gary will tell about his first successful surveillan…
In keeping with last months subject about a team of cops running surveillance and catching somebody during a caper, this bonus episode Gary will tell about his first successful surveillan…
Thu 31 Jan 2019
Hole in the Wall Gang Part 3
The FBI waits outside Bertha’s Gifts and Furnishings for the Hole in the Wall Gang
In this third and final installment in my report on Tony Spilotro and his Hole in the Wall gang, the reader will lea…
In this third and final installment in my report on Tony Spilotro and his Hole in the Wall gang, the reader will lea…
Mon 28 Jan 2019
Hole in the Wall Gang Part 2
I am adding a new method of supporting the podcast. If you have the venmo app, how about donating an average of fifty cents an episode or just hit me up for a buck every time you think of it. In this…
Mon 21 Jan 2019
Hole in the Wall Gang Part 1
The making of the Hole in the Wall Series
I am adding a new method of supporting the podcast. If you have the venmo app, how about donating an average of fifty cents an episode or just hit me up for …
I am adding a new method of supporting the podcast. If you have the venmo app, how about donating an average of fifty cents an episode or just hit me up for …
Mon 14 Jan 2019
Hole in the Wall Gang Burglary Gang
Frank Cullotta
Frank Cullotta committed many crimes and had long been part of a burglary gang in Chicago. Gangland Wire is releasing a 3 part series on Tony Spilotro and his Hole in the Wall Gang bur…
Frank Cullotta committed many crimes and had long been part of a burglary gang in Chicago. Gangland Wire is releasing a 3 part series on Tony Spilotro and his Hole in the Wall Gang bur…
Wed 09 Jan 2019
Harry “The Hook” Aleman Part 4
Robert Cooley testifies
In this 4th and final episode chronicling the life and times of feared Chicago outfit enforcer Harry “The Hook” Aleman, Gary, and David Byrne of the Facebook page The Chicago …
In this 4th and final episode chronicling the life and times of feared Chicago outfit enforcer Harry “The Hook” Aleman, Gary, and David Byrne of the Facebook page The Chicago …
Mon 24 Dec 2018
Harry “The Hook” Aleman Part 3
Lou Almeida
This is the third of a four-part series on one of the most feared enforcers in the history if the Chicago Outfit. In this episode the Gary discusses how Lou Almeida and Harry Aleman murde…
This is the third of a four-part series on one of the most feared enforcers in the history if the Chicago Outfit. In this episode the Gary discusses how Lou Almeida and Harry Aleman murde…
Mon 17 Dec 2018
Harry “The Hook” Aleman Part 2
Harry Aleman and Butch Petrocelli
Harry Aleman matured into a full-fledged member of the Chicago Outfit. It was like he was born to fill the purpose of stealing, intimidating, and serving Chicago Out…
Harry Aleman matured into a full-fledged member of the Chicago Outfit. It was like he was born to fill the purpose of stealing, intimidating, and serving Chicago Out…
Mon 10 Dec 2018
Harry “The Hook” Aleman Part 1
Harry Aleman – the early years
We talk with Mike Byrne, Administrator of the popular Facebook group The Chicago Outfit – Old and Current News Articles. Harry “The Hook” Aleman was born Harry Peralt A…
We talk with Mike Byrne, Administrator of the popular Facebook group The Chicago Outfit – Old and Current News Articles. Harry “The Hook” Aleman was born Harry Peralt A…
Fri 07 Dec 2018
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