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299. Mafia's Finest: Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It is November 6th, 1990. The air was crisp, the Belt Parkway humming with the usual New York traffic. Among the cars was Eddie Lino—an old-school Gambino enforcer, a man whose name carried weight in the city's underworld. He’d spent years dodging the law. But this time, the flashing red and blue lights in his rearview weren’t just another routine hassle. As the unmarked car closed in, Lino must’ve felt it—something was off. Before he could react, gunfire rang out. The ambush was clean and professional in a city where power shifts with a trigger pull; Eddie Lino’s time was up. For a man who had made a living by the gun, there were only two ways out: a prison cell or a body bag. Lino avoided the first. And he paid his dues in full on that Brooklyn highway in 1992. Dirty cops and the mob—nothing new in New York. But this case? This was different. Two high-ranking NYPD detectives weren’t just looking the other way; they worked for the Lucchese crime family, pulling jobs and covering tracks for over a decade. They didn’t just take bribes—they were on the payroll.

Join Cam and Jen on this episode of Our True Crime Podcast entitled ‘Mafia's Finest: Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito.’


Listener discretion by @octoberpodVHS

Music is by our editor @theinkypawprint

Sources:
Mafia Cops Interview - Louis Eppolito on the Sally Jesse Raphael show

https://www.amazon.com/Mafia-Cop-Lou-Eppolito/dp/1416517014

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https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/nye/pr/2009/2009mar06b.html

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https://nypost.com/2005/07/07/victims-mom-fingered-mafia-cop-from-tv-talk-show/

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Edward October. Over the years, I've narrated more ghost stories, horror shows,

0:05.9

and creepypastas than I can count. And yet, the crimes discussed on our true crime podcast

0:12.0

managed to scare the shit out of me. This program is not suitable for children or the faint of heart.

0:18.2

If you are such a person, go ahead and switch off this podcast.

0:21.7

Listen to something else.

0:24.5

Are you still with us?

0:26.7

Well, we've warned you. Hi, Jen.

0:48.6

Cam, how you doing?

0:49.8

I'm doing pretty okay.

0:50.8

How about yourself?

0:51.6

I'm doing great.

0:53.2

I feel the sun is a shining today and it's

0:55.6

almost going to be 50 i think a blustering 50 yes considering it's been in the negatives negative 50 okay

1:02.4

not really but felt like it well i got a case for you today this is a little bit a little bit older

1:07.3

a little bit older case i mean it's not that old but you know I love me some mafia, right? Anything. And this is a doozy. It's like just a dozy. All I got to say about that,

1:18.1

humdinger maybe, I don't know. But you ready? Sure. So we are traveling back to November 6th, 1990. The air was crisp and the belt parkway was humming

1:37.2

with the usual New York traffic. Among the cars was Eddie Lino, an old school Gambino

1:43.4

enforcer, a man whose name carried weight in the city's

1:46.8

underworld. Now, he had spent years dodging the law, slipping through the fingers, all that stuff.

1:52.6

You know, he's pretty used to having to deal with police officers, the law, Johnny Law,

1:57.6

if you will, and getting out. But this time, the flashing red and blue lights and his

2:02.4

rearview weren't just another routine hassle. As the unmarked car closed in, Lino must have felt it.

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