Chicago, November 1st, 1983. A funeral procession stretches so far down Chicago Avenue that police have to come out and shut down a lane of traffic. 5,000 people, not a concert, not a rally, not some televised memorial with cameras and eulogies and politicians. A funeral for a 29year-old man that most of this city…
January 14th, 1979. A cold Sunday night in New York. Tommy DeSimone leaves home dressed for glory, not for burial. A double-breasted black suit, blue shirt, silk tie. He thinks he is finally going to get his button. He thinks all the bodies, all the robberies, all…
January 14th, 1979. A cold Sunday night in New York. Tommy DeSimone leaves home dressed for glory, not for burial. A double-breasted black suit, blue shirt, silk tie. He thinks he is finally going to get his button. He thinks all the bodies, all the robberies, all…
Sammy Gravano had looked across tables at some of the most dangerous men alive and read them correctly every single time. He had sat across from Paul Castaniano and smiled while planning his murder. He had sat across from John Gotti and calculated in real time exactly how much trust he could extend and how…
1995, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The city has a new name, Murder. Not given by enemies, given by a t-shirt sold out of a gun shop on Chicago Avenue. The city earned it. 97 homicides in a single year. The worst it had ever been, the worst it would ever get. Historian Will Culie spent years studying…
Hi, my name is Michael and this is Old Vegas Legends. One night in Las Vegas, a man sat down at a blackjack table, played until the sun came up, and won so much money that the MGM Grand, one of the most powerful casino operations on Earth, had to make an emergency phone call…
A woman walks into a federal courtroom in Manhattan, [clears throat] 1986. The most significant organized crime trial in the history of the Colombo crime family. Carmine Persico, the boss known as the snake, is seated at the defense table alongside his underboss, his capos, and seven co-defendants. The prosecution has spent eight months building…
October 3rd, 1978. Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan. The 596 Club on 10th Avenue. It’s past midnight when the door opens and a man named Paddy Dugan stumbles in. Drunk, laughing, completely unaware that he’s about to be cut into seven pieces. Within 90 minutes, Paddy’s head will be in a brown paper bag, his hands will…
On December 8th, 1974, the citizens of Greece voted by a margin of 69% to abolish their monarchy. King Constantine II was in London at the time. He was 34 years old. What happened next is one of the stranger footnotes in 20th century European history. Constantine didn’t fade. His sisters didn’t fade. His children…
The summer of 1944, France erupted to the ringing of church bells. The tricolor flag flew brightly on balconies and squares were packed with people dancing. After 4 years of occupation, the light of freedom had finally returned. But, right beneath those cheers, in dark alleys and remote villages, a different kind of brutal hunt…
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