November 23, 1962, 2:45 p.m. North Side of Youngstown, Ohio. 12-year-old Charlie Cavalaro Jr. climbs into the back seat of his father’s Cadillac. His younger brother, Tommy, 11 years old, slides in beside him. Their father, Charles Cadillac, Charlie Cavalaro, Senior, 60 years old, silver-haired, dressed in an expensive suit, turns the ignition key. The…
On March 19th, 1943, a man [music] in a fedora and overcoat walked along the railroad tracks in North Riverside, Illinois. He reached into his coat, pulled out a 32 caliber Colt revolver, and fired three shots into [music] his own head. When police identified the body, Chicago, went silent. Frank Niti, the most powerful…
They are the only secret criminal brotherhood, the mafia. Only an Italian can belong. It is the key to their takeover of organized crime. There is a rule in organized crime so fundamental, so baked into the DNA of the American mafia that breaking it is basically a death sentence. You do not, under any…
January 20th, 1983, 9:18 a.m. A parking lot in Lincolnwood, Illinois. Alan Dorfman, 60, insurance consultant to the Teamsters Union, stepped out of the Purple Hotel after breakfast with a colleague. Seven bullets tore through his head and neck. He dropped face first onto the frozen asphalt. Two ski mass shooters jumped into a…
April 7th, 1972. 4:30 a.m. Ombberto’s Clam House, 129 Malberry Street, Little Italy. Joey Gallows at a rear table. His back to the door eating skunk gilly. His wife of 3 weeks, Cena Esserie, laughed at something his sister said. His 10-year-old step-daughter, Lisa, was getting tired. The smell of garlic and seafood filled…
The flashing light appeared in his rear view mirror just past 14th Street. Red and blue strobing against the November dark bouncing off the black paint of a 1990 MercedesBenz doing 60 on the belt parkway. Eddie Lino saw it and did what most people do. He pulled over. The unmarked car slid in behind…
In June of every year, a procession of open topped carriages rolls through the gates of Windsor Great Park and makes its way along the final stretch toward the racecourse at Ascot in Berkshire. The horses are matched bays moving in a collected trot that looks effortless only because of years of training. The crowd…
Athens, December 1943. The garden soil crumbled beneath her hands, dark and cold in the winter night. Princess Alice of Battenburgg knelt in the palace grounds, mud staining the hem of her grey nuns habit. While three stories above her head, Nazi officers conducted another search of the palace. She placed the velvet pouch…
You probably know John F. Kennedy as America’s 35th president. But did you know he had to be reminded to eat dinner, donated his entire salary to charity while scraping by on a $75 monthly grocery budget, and credited a beef soup recipe with helping him win …
They were photographed together constantly, smiling, walking hand in hand, the picture of the perfect American couple. But behind the doors of the White House, John and Jackie Kennedy slept in separate rooms. His bed was dressed in angels and cherubs on blue and white fabric chosen by a man who told his decorator he…
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