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 in McHenry – Paul Scharff – Part 1
In 1981, 10 year old Paul Scharff was awakened and told the news that his father, Ron Scharff, was killed by unknown persons at his McHenry County neighborhood tavern. Twenty-eight years later, Paul …
Sun 01 May 2016
Chicago Mob Diamond Theft -Segment 2
In the second episode, Aaron and I discuss the mystery of what happened to the Marlborough Diamond. The listener will learn about the subsequent investigation and arrest of The Monk and The Brain in …
Tue 12 Apr 2016
Chicago Mob Diamond Theft – Segment 1
In this new two part series, I tell about Chicago Mob associates Jerome “Jerry” “The Monk” Scalise and Arthur “The Brain” Rachel. These two guys were master criminals of the Chicago Underworld. Some …
Wed 06 Apr 2016
Joseph “Joey Doves” Aiuppa – Segment 3
For this third segment on Joey Doves, I have gone back to my Freedom of Information Act documents on his criminal history. Aaron and I discuss raids on two clubs he owned. The Frolics and the Magic …
Thu 04 Feb 2016
Joseph “Joey Doves” Aiuppa – Segment 2
In this episode, Aaron and I examine exactly how Aiuppa got the nickname, Joey Doves. Most mob fans know he got caught with several hundred dead doves while on a hunting trip in Kansas. We will tell …
Fri 29 Jan 2016
Joseph “Joey Doves” Aiuppa – Segment 1
I recently did a short written blog piece on Joey Doves. Aaron and I did a two-part episode on Joey Doves on Gangland Wire Crime Stories. In this first segment, we examine Aiuppa’s early criminal car…
Fri 29 Jan 2016
Nick Civella and the Chicago Outfit Segment 2
In the second segment, Bill Ouseley tells about Chicago mobster, Charles “Cherry Nose” Gioe and his connection to Nick Civella and the 1950s KC Mob Boss, Anthony “Tony” Gizzo. Gizzo was made famous …
Thu 21 Jan 2016
Nick Civella and the Chicago Outfit Segment 3
In this third and final segment, we learn about Nick Civella, Carl “Tuffy” DeLuna and their relationship with Joseph “Joey Doves” Aiuppa and the Chicago Outfit.
Nick Civella teamed up with the Chicag…
Nick Civella teamed up with the Chicag…
Thu 21 Jan 2016
Nick Civella and the Chicago Outfit Segment 1
In the first of three episodes, Aaron and I invite retired F.B.I. Agent Bill Ouseley to discuss the connection between the Chicago Outfit and the Kansas City crime family. We will discuss the early d…
Thu 21 Jan 2016
The Mob and the Boosters – Gangland Wire
Shoplifting seems like a crime done by kleptomaniacs, dysfunctional movie stars or teenagers. Well, there is a huge contingent of professional shoplifters working stores somewhere in the world,as you…
Fri 15 Jan 2016
James S. Duardi and the Oklahoma Connection part 2
In this podcast, learn how a mob hit gone wrong can be ignored by a Federal judge because of a disagreement with the Strike Force. The U.S. Strike Force was formed to cut though jurisdictional bounda…
Wed 30 Sep 2015
James S. Duardi and the Oklahoma connection
This podcast is the first of a two-part series about Kansas City Mob associate James S. “Jimmy” Duardi. Jimmy Duardi was a mobster from the old school. His personality had a range from being a most …
Wed 30 Sep 2015
Nick Civella and the Teamsters -3
In the third and final episode I tell about the Mob influence over the Teamster’s local in Cleveland, Ohio and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, In Cleveland a man named Jackie Presser would double deal his way …
Thu 20 Aug 2015
Nick Civella and the Teamster – 2
In the second episode, you will learn about a WW II veteran named Allen Dorfman who returned from combat. Like Roy Williams, Dorfman was a hero and had been awarded the Silver Star. Dorfman’s step-f…
Thu 20 Aug 2015
Nick Civella and the Teamsters Union – 1
This is the first episode of a three part episode discussing how the Midwest Mob families obtained influence over the Central States Teamsters Pension Fund. I am a member of the Board for the Kansas …
Thu 20 Aug 2015
Klu Klux Klan Part 3
These three episodes became very topical just as I recorded them. In a free society, we have to protect the worst of us under the law. Democracy is not neat and clean and sometimes not pretty. Do you…
Wed 01 Jul 2015
Klu Klux Klan Part 2
The conundrum in a free society, where does free speech pass from protected to censored? In the recent killings by white power advocate, Dylann Roof, folks are stirred to anger by the image of Roof …
Wed 01 Jul 2015
Klu Klux Klan Part 1
Starting with Episode 8, I am inserting a photo we took of the Klan members we targeted and arrested in this Intelligence Unit investigation. Episode 8 was Dennis Mahon, the Imperial Dragon of all th…
Thu 25 Jun 2015
Episode 7 The Bowery
We have new opening and closing segments with local music from Odd-O-Matic, a new independent group with an electro-punk beat with hip-hop undertones. Search for them on Facebook and like their page.…
Fri 19 Jun 2015
Episode 6 Wrap Up
I am researching the next exciting story right now. In 1990, the Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit conducted an investigation into Kansas City Klu Klux Klan activities.
Now, listen below to a sho…
Now, listen below to a sho…
Wed 08 Apr 2015
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