He was sort of a different guy. And he shocked me a little bit because I didn’t know he had it in him like that. A 91-year-old man had spent decades protecting a secret about the day Elvis Presley walked into a Tennessee correctional facilities to see someone specific. And the people…
On March 6th, 1990, a woman died in Washington, DC. She was 83 years old. Her family did not claim her body for 8 days. When her friends finally arranged a burial, they scraped together $51. That was all that remained of a woman the press had once called the Lady Al…
Source of life and cause of death, water can wash away clues, dilute evidence, and conceal corpses. For investigators, water can be a cunning opponent. For criminals, a most accommodating ally. For the perfect crime, just add water. Our investigation takes place in Kingston, Ontario, a city full of history which has a population of…
There is a moment in this story that does not make the front page. No arrest record attached to it. No photograph, no 911 call, no courtroom count in the indictment. Just two men somewhere in Chicago. Two men who know each other well enough that neither of them flinches at certain…
There is a song you already know. You may not remember the first time you heard it. Maybe it was a wedding, a school gymnasium with bad lighting and worse punch. A company holiday party where everyone stood around pretending not to want to dance. And then this came on and suddenly…
December 16th, 1985. Approximately 5:16 in the evening. East 46th Street, Midtown Manhattan. The Christmas lights along the block are already on, and the sidewalk outside Sparks Steak House is wet from an afternoon rain that never quite committed to stopping. A black Lincoln Continental pulls to the curb and parks in a no…
October 24th, 1928. Room 349, Park Central Hotel, 7th Avenue and 55th Street, Manhattan. 11:15 at night. Arnold Rothstein was slumped against the service staircase. A .38 caliber slug lodged in his abdomen. His tuxedo soaked through with blood. The most powerful gangster in America had just been shot over a card…
The Rizzuto crime family was technically a crew, a branch office. On paper, they answered to the Bonanno family in New York, one of five mafia organizations that divided the Eastern United States among themselves and considered the rest of the continent beneath their attention. The Rizzutos were their Canadian franchise, a…
May 2nd, 1957. 10:55 at night. The Majestic Apartments, 115, Central Park West, Manhattan. Frank Castella walked through the lobby the way he always did, tailored suit, felt hat, calm eyes. He nodded at the doorman. He stepped toward the elevator. He never made it. A heavy set man in a dark…
The chandelier was still in the trunk. That detail is so strange and so specific and so human that it stops you the moment you read it. Roy Deo had placed a chandelier in the trunk of his 1983 Cadillac from his Long Island home that he once intended to have repaired. He’d…
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