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
Murder Incorporated – Part 1
Long before Albert Anastasia forms Murder Incorporated in 1919, he and his brothers arrived in New York City, working on a freighter. Jumping ship, the brothers stayed in the United States, working …
Wed 12 Oct 2016
Red Wemette and the Chicago Outfit
William “Red” Wemette was an FBI informant who testified against against the most feared and dangerous Chicago Outfit killers of modern times. I must note that Red was not the usual infomant but more…
Sun 02 Oct 2016
Richard Grissom Jr.: Apartments Painted and Girls Murdered – Part Two
The Investigation and Arrest
In Part 2 of this horrifying story, retired detectives, Joe Langer and Tom Robinson tell about the
subsequent man hunt for Grissom. After he escaped arrest in the nearby …
In Part 2 of this horrifying story, retired detectives, Joe Langer and Tom Robinson tell about the
subsequent man hunt for Grissom. After he escaped arrest in the nearby …
Mon 26 Sep 2016
Martin J. McNally- Part 7
Prison Break
The Department of Justice sentencing guidelines send Mac to the famous maximum security federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas. Here, he has a fateful meeting with another skyjacker named…
The Department of Justice sentencing guidelines send Mac to the famous maximum security federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas. Here, he has a fateful meeting with another skyjacker named…
Thu 01 Sep 2016
Martin J. McNally – Part 6
Arrest and Trial Of McNally
Shortly after, Mac arrives back home with a new plan. He is going to skyjack another plane and ask for a million dollars this time.
As Mac makes contacts with his criminal…
Shortly after, Mac arrives back home with a new plan. He is going to skyjack another plane and ask for a million dollars this time.
As Mac makes contacts with his criminal…
Wed 24 Aug 2016
Martin J. McNally – Part 5
The Hunt for the Skyjacker
Skyjacker Martin J. McNally continues telling how he lands safely in a farm field. He determines he is in Indiana by the license plates. After hiding over night, hearing he…
Skyjacker Martin J. McNally continues telling how he lands safely in a farm field. He determines he is in Indiana by the license plates. After hiding over night, hearing he…
Mon 15 Aug 2016
Martin J. McNally – Part 4
Skyjacking Interrupted
In Part 4, convicted skyjacker Martin J. McNally (“Mac”) relates how a local St. Louis man is drinking at the Lambert Airport Mariott Inn lobby bar. The bar patrons are watchin…
In Part 4, convicted skyjacker Martin J. McNally (“Mac”) relates how a local St. Louis man is drinking at the Lambert Airport Mariott Inn lobby bar. The bar patrons are watchin…
Mon 08 Aug 2016
Martin J. McNally – Part 3
The Hijacking
Our D. B. Cooper copycat, Martin J. McNally, continues with his fascinating account of a real life skyjacking. He has selected Lambert Field in St. Louis and has arrived at the gate. Ma…
Our D. B. Cooper copycat, Martin J. McNally, continues with his fascinating account of a real life skyjacking. He has selected Lambert Field in St. Louis and has arrived at the gate. Ma…
Thu 04 Aug 2016
Martin J. McNally – Part 2
The Preparation
In the first episode, Mac told how he heard about the successful skyjacking of D. B. Cooper and started his own skyjacking plan. In this second episode of our interview with convicted…
In the first episode, Mac told how he heard about the successful skyjacking of D. B. Cooper and started his own skyjacking plan. In this second episode of our interview with convicted…
Sun 31 Jul 2016
Al Capone – The Early Days
Al Capone was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. He was a small time criminal and belonged to several different gangs including the powerful 5-Points Gang in lower Manhattan. He received …
Mon 18 Jul 2016
Martin J. McNally – Part 1
Several months back, Aaron and I posted an episode telling about a 1972 D.B. Cooper copycat skyjacker named Martin J. McNally. In 1972, D. B. Cooper inspired McNally and several others to skyjack pa…
Thu 14 Jul 2016
F.B.I. Black Bag Jobs part 2
When Ed Tickel was installing F.B.I. wiretaps, he led a secret life as a burglar. He was the son of a respected FBI agent and well-liked by his coworkers. I found a report about this secret life in a…
Sat 09 Jul 2016
F.B.I. Black Bag Jobs Part 1
This show is about F.B.I. Black Bag operations and the men who do this. Without the skill of the “bag men” the important microphones would not have installed and the Mob control over the Tropicana an…
Tue 05 Jul 2016
Tropicana Casino Skimming
In this episode, Tropicana Casino Skimming, Aaron and I talk about how KC boss Nick Civella used Joe Agosto to
infiltrate the Tropicana casino. I use the below actual wiretap audio to help tell the s…
infiltrate the Tropicana casino. I use the below actual wiretap audio to help tell the s…
Fri 24 Jun 2016
Milwaukee Mob Story – Part 2
In part 2, Aaron and I talk about the crime that our friend Schlecter, aka Joe Sharpino, did to get himself in witness protection. A woman named Sally Papia came from Chicago to Milwaukee and opened…
Tue 21 Jun 2016
Milwaukee Mob Story – Part 1
I met retired F.B.I. Agent Gary Magnesun in Las Vegas- he had been assigned to the Milwaukee Organized Crime Squad and then transferred to Las Vegas. In Milwaukee, he was assigned to the first Organi…
Mon 13 Jun 2016
Illegal Gambling before Las Vegas – Part 2
In his 30 Illegal Years to the Strip Bill Friedman explains how Al Capone, Frank Nitti, Charles Luciano, John Torrio, Moe Dalitz, Meyer Lansky and Joe Adonis and Frank Costello created the modern cri…
Wed 08 Jun 2016
Illegal Gambling before Las Vegas Part 1
In his 30 Illegal Years to the Strip Bill Friedman explains how the early Mob bosses created illegal gambling empires after prohibition. Some of these men went on to help create modern Las Vegas. Al …
Tue 31 May 2016
Murder in McHenry – Paul Scharff – Part 3
In Part 3, Paul Scharff tells about his struggle to help clean up the McHenry County Sheriff’s office and elect a new sheriff. Paul runs into reluctance on the part of the sitting sheriff and he emba…
Tue 10 May 2016
Murder in McHenry – Paul Scharff – Part 2
In Part 2, our special guest, Paul Scharff tells about his first contact with the McHenry County Sheriff’s Investigator. Paul learns they have never looked at Larry “Lurch” Neumann. When Paul first c…
Thu 05 May 2016
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