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
Van Gogh and the Camorra
Octave “Okkie” Durham, the thief behind one of the biggest art heists in history went on various Dutch talk shows to discuss how he stole two Van Gogh paintings worth millions from the Van Van Gogh M…
Mon 05 Jun 2017
Joe Raimo and the Black Hand Part 2
In the second and final episode Gary and Aaron reveal the subsequent investigation by the Kansas City Police Department.
Officer Joseph Raimo was assassinated at 11:15 PM on March 28, 1911 at 5th and…
Officer Joseph Raimo was assassinated at 11:15 PM on March 28, 1911 at 5th and…
Mon 29 May 2017
Joe Raimo and the Black Hand Part 1
Kansas Police Officer Joe Raimo was born September 23, 1879 in Naples Italy. He came to the United States, in 1892, when he was 13 years old. The Raimo family lived in Chicago until 1897. Joe and hi…
Mon 22 May 2017
Joe Petrosino and The Black Hand
Joe Petrosino was the first cop to investigate the Mob in the United States. Steven Taltry has written a thrilling account of Petrosino and his investigation into
the Black Hand, an organization that…
the Black Hand, an organization that…
Mon 08 May 2017
Alan Gunnar Lindbloom and the Detroit Mob Part 2
In this second episode, Alan tells more about his book To Be a King and the problems of writing inside a prison. We learn a lot about how to rob a drug dealer. You just get a contact inside a strip c…
Mon 17 Apr 2017
Gunnar Alan Lindbloom and the Detroit Mob Part 1
Gunnar Alan Lindbloom visits Gangland Wire in this first of a two part series on his life in the Detroit underworld. Gunnar was the 1/2 Sicilian which kept him out the the Brogata or La Cosa Nostra o…
Sun 16 Apr 2017
The Trial of Al Capone Part 2
This second episode recounts in great detail the interactions between jurors in the famous trial of Al Capone for income tax evasion.
CAPONE JURORS
NATE C. BROWN, 64, retired, Protestant, SL Charles.
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CAPONE JURORS
NATE C. BROWN, 64, retired, Protestant, SL Charles.
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Mon 03 Apr 2017
The Trial of Al Capone Part 1
I found a detailed newspaper account written by a juror shortly after the October 5, 1931 trail of Al Capone for income tax evasion at the federal courthouse in downtown Chicago.
For several weeks b…
For several weeks b…
Sun 26 Mar 2017
Mad Sam DeStefano Chicago Outfit Part 2
“Mad Sam” was truly a crazy sadist. He liked to muse about feeding his victims to victims to the pigs. He drove to pig farms just to watch them for hours. A government witness, Charles Crimaldi, cla…
Sun 19 Mar 2017
Mad Sam DeStefano Chicago Outfit Part 1
Sam “Mad Sam” DeStefano will become the Chicago Outfit’s most notorious loan shark and sociopathic killer. No less an authority than FBI agent and mob fighter, William F. Roemer, Jr., considered DeSt…
Mon 13 Mar 2017
Bob Berdella Serial Killer Part 4
In this fourth and final episode of our interview with Troy Cole, we learn about Berdella’s frantic efforts to avoid the death penalty. First, he tries to plead guilty to one count of murder. The fat…
Mon 23 Jan 2017
Bob Berdella Serial Killer – Part 3
In Part 3, Troy Cole relates how his detectives encountered problems trying to identify the young men in the photos found in the home of Bob Berdella. Most of these men had lived lives estranged from…
Tue 17 Jan 2017
Bob Berdella Serial Killer – Part 2
In episode 2, Troy Cole tells about the search of this chamber of horrors. The house was in complete disarray, kind of like a teenage kid’s room. When Bob got done with something, he just threw it do…
Sat 07 Jan 2017
Bob Berdella Serial Killer – Part 1
This is the first of a 4-part series of interviews with retired Kansas City Police Department Sergeant Troy Cole. On April 2, 1988, Homicide Sergeant Troy Cole was preparing to leave work and looking…
Sat 07 Jan 2017
Janitor In a Drum – Part 2
In this last episode of 2016, Retired Chicago P.D. Detective Jim Padar tells how he learned the real story behind why Chicago Outfit associates Samuel Marcello and Joseph Grisafe were killed. He also…
Mon 19 Dec 2016
Janitor In a Drum – Part 1
In our last episode we told a story about how just before Thanksgiving day in 1973, Chicago Outfit associates Samuel Marcello and Joseph Grisafe parked in front of a fire hydrant at Taylor & Western…
Mon 12 Dec 2016
Angelo Lonardo – Cleveland Mob – Part 2
In the Cleveland mob war the Danny Greene gang (Danny was backed by mob associate and teamster John Nardi who had been
mad because he thought he should be boss over Licavoli) the city experienced alm…
mad because he thought he should be boss over Licavoli) the city experienced alm…
Tue 08 Nov 2016
Angelo Lonardo – Cleveland Mob – Part 1
Angelo Lonardo “Big Ange”
In the 1980s, the FBI recorded Cleveland Mob Underboss, Joey Gallo, “Angelo Lonardo is probably one of the most respected guys in the whole United States.”
Gallo went on to …
In the 1980s, the FBI recorded Cleveland Mob Underboss, Joey Gallo, “Angelo Lonardo is probably one of the most respected guys in the whole United States.”
Gallo went on to …
Tue 01 Nov 2016
Murder Incorporated – Part 3
After the deaths of the Mangano brothers, Costello pushes Anastasia as the new boss of that family. The Commission confirmed Anastasia’s ascension to be boss of the renamed Anastasia family.
To take …
To take …
Tue 25 Oct 2016
Murder Incorporated – Part 2
To reward Anastasia’s loyalty, Luciano placed him and Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, the nation’s leading labor racketeer, in control of the Syndicate’s enforcement arm, Murder, Inc. This was a group of J…
Tue 18 Oct 2016
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