In the 1930s, the American underworld built a machine designed for one purpose, silencing anyone who stood in its way. They called it Murder Inc., a crew of contract killers who enforced the syndicate’s rules with ice picks, pistols, and cold efficiency. Tonight, we’re stepping into the lives of five men whose hands helped…
February 25th, 1994, 2:10 p.m. Nesbbit Memorial Hospital, Kingston, Pennsylvania. Russell Buffalino died in a hospital bed at the age of 90. No assassin’s bullet, no prison cell, natural causes. for a man who ran one of America’s most powerful crime families for 35 years, who allegedly ordered the murder of Jimmy Hoffa, who controlled…
It’s the spring of 1986 in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach neighborhood. Inside the Odessa nightclub, a Russian immigrant named Maritt Balagula is running one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in American history. His gasoline bootlegging operation is pulling in $150 million every single month. But on June 12th, a man named Vladimir Resnikov walks through…
February 18, 1979. Flatlands, Brooklyn. A stretch of garbage strewn lots and abandoned buildings near the Belt Parkway. Children playing in the weeds find something they aren’t supposed to find. A refrigerated tractor trailer rusted, sitting in a vacant lot. The door is partially open. Inside, a body. A man bound, gagged, hog tied with…
In 2019, 26 million households watched Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman on Netflix. Joe Peshy played a quiet old man who ran a curtain factory in Pennsylvania. He spoke softly. He moved slowly. He seemed like a side character, a regional figure orbiting bigger names like Hawa and the Five Families. Most viewers had never heard…
There’s a word in the streets that carries more weight than murder, more weight than robbery, more weight than any charge a prosecutor can put on paper. Snitch. You can kill a man and still have respect in certain circles. You can rob, you can steal, you can destroy entire neighborhoods, but the moment you…
Two hunters walking through a cornfield on the outskirts of Rochester, New York on the morning of Thanksgiving Day, 1961, find something that stops them cold. The smell reaches them before the sight does. Then the sight, a man is lying in the underbrush, or what remains of a man. He has been strangled. His…
December 4th, 1989. Howard Beach, Queens. Inside a house already famous with federal agents, a dying mob captain is running out of time. He is 49. He is free on $1 million bail. He has four major criminal cases still hanging over him. The FBI has spent years listening to his voice bounce off kitchen…
30,000 members, 28 states, 75 cities, one of the most powerful street organizations ever built on American soil. And the man who started it all, nobody wrote down how he died. Think about that for a second. You can look up the founding date of the Vice Lords, the size of their territory, the names…
People just found a secret chamber in the Buckingham Palace, and they say it is full of Diana’s belongings. A mysterious trunk was discovered inside a luxurious villa in Scotland. And inside it were pieces of jewelry that once belonged to Princess Diana, missing for decades. Immediately, the name Annabelle Elliot, Camila’s sister, was thrust…
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