October the 9th, 1972. A brand new Rollsroyce parked on a quiet street. Behind the wheel, a man in a tailored suit, 32 years old, diamond jewelry on his hands worth close to $10,000. Someone walks up to the window, shot in the back of the head, the jewelry stripped off his body before the…
On December 7th, 1987, on a street in Brooklyn, New York, gunfire broke out. Aimed not at any one person, but at an entire category of people. According to accounts from the case, the gunmen had been given one instruction beforehand. Forget who actually did anything wrong, and just start shooting at anyone who looked…
July 12th, 1979. A Brooklyn restaurant patio. Three masked gunmen walk in. Seconds later, Carmine Galante is dead with a cigar still clenched between his teeth. But to understand why nearly every mafia family wanted him gone, we need to go back to East Harlem. Carmine Galante was born Camilo Carmine Galante on February the…
October 6th, 1977. 1:30 in the afternoon. Brainer Place Office Building, Lindhurst, Ohio. Danny Green walked out of his dentist’s office still numb from a tooth extraction. A wad of cotton in his cheek, the autumn sun bouncing off the suburban parking lot. He never made it to his Lincoln. The blue Chevy Nova parked…
Brooklyn, New York. Spring 1983. 40 Hell’s Angels rode into Gambino territory on a Tuesday morning like they owned it. They had weapons, numbers, and the kind of confidence that comes from never having been told no by anyone who mattered. By Friday, every single one of them had left Brooklyn permanently. Nobody fired a…
September 6th, 2002. Around noon, Lawrenceville, Georgia, a quiet apartment complex outside Atlanta, Deputy US Marshalss kicking the door of apartment 609, and find their man in the back bedroom, two other men in the front room. On the mantle, in plain view, one marijuana cigarette. That’s it. That’s the whole legal justification for the…
The 6th of October, 2008, East Farmingdale, Long Island. Federal agents are digging through dirt outside an industrial property when they hit something wrapped in tarp. A body. Italian loafers still on. The corpse is badly decomposed, but the identification comes fast. Dental records. A missing piece of the right middle finger. After nine years…
The steel rack shook inside LA County Jail while a young Cambodian inmate kept his head low as a circle of Serenos whispered green light around him and his face stayed calm like someone who already knew danger well. The moment stretched tight while nobody moved fast and the whole tier watched for the first…
They look so graceful on the water, but they’re pedalling to save their life underneath. And that’s depression. If you haven’t been through depression, that may not make sense to you, but it is a real feeling. [music] It is I don’t would never have understood it if I hadn’t gone through it. >> She…
January 2006, Tenneref, an unusually cool winter evening on the edge of Plyier Deas Americus. British expat couple Billy and Florence Robinson dine with their senior manager Chris Collins and his wife at a Japanese Teanyaki restaurant, tucked above the designer boutiques in the Safari shopping mall. The Robinsons leave around 10:30 p.m. At 11:30…
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