The Porter Street row home stood silent in the pre-dawn darkness, their brick facades pressed together like books on a shelf. A maroon Cadillac pulled to the curb at number 2,117. Philip Ta, 56 years old and the newly minted boss of the Philadelphia crime family, stepped out into the chill night air. He was…
August 6th, 1951. 9:45 p.m. Ogden Drive, Hollywood. A 1951 Oldsmobile 88 sits at the curb under a street lamp. The manifold still ticking as it cools. Windows down against the warm California night. Inside, two men are slumped in the front seats, heads tilted at angles that no living person could maintain. 13 minutes…
May 11th, 1982. Early afternoon, the waterfront along Northern Avenue in Boston. Brian Howerin sits in the passenger seat of a Blue Dotson, waiting for a ride home. He’s nervous. He should be. 3 weeks earlier, he walked into the FBI’s Boston field office and told them something dangerous, that Whitey Bulier murdered a…
In October 1972, hundreds of mourners gathered at a Chicago funeral home to pay respects to a 74year-old man described in the obituary as a retired real estate investor. But FBI agents watching from unmarked cars knew the truth. The man in the casket was Paul the Waiter RA, the most powerful mob boss…
In October 1972, hundreds of mourners gathered at a Chicago funeral home to pay respects to a 74year-old man described in the obituary as a retired real estate investor. But FBI agents watching from unmarked cars knew the truth. The man in the casket was Paul the Waiter RA, the most powerful mob boss…
The office was on the 26th floor of a building in Midtown Manhattan. May 15th, 1980. Thursday afternoon. Expensive furniture. Florida to ceiling windows overlooking Central Park. The kind of office that screamed success and power. Sitting behind a mahogany desk was Roy Conn, 53 years old, one of the most feared and connected…
It was March 18th, 1983, and a man named Salvatore Avalino was attending a dinner dance at the Huntington Town House on Long Island with his wife. He had no idea that while he was inside, three agents from the New York State Organized Crime Task Force had climbed the parking lot fence, popped the…
this prick. This must be doing his stuff, too. You know, >> you know the shot. It’s maybe 10 seconds of screen time, and it’s one of the most quoted moments in the history of crime cinema. Tommy Devito walks through a door in his best suit, expecting a room full of made men waiting…
On the night of August 19th, 2011, a 22-year-old woman named Julian Jones stepped outside her home on Macon Drive in South Atlanta. She had just put her four children to bed. Her fiance had dropped her off half an hour earlier, and he had an engagement ring in his pocket he planned to…
1987, May 18th, 2:30 in the morning. A sidewalk in front of 1043 Liberty Avenue, Cypress Hills section of East New [music] York, Brooklyn. Liberty Avenue at that hour is empty. Streetlights, broken glass, warm spring air. The 75th Precinct logged 82 murders that year. Frank…
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