90: Frank Oldfield vs. the Black Hand w/ William Oldfield and Victoria Bruce

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In the early 1900s police were stymied by a series of murders of Italian grocers and fruit vendors in midwest America. Witnesses refused to cooperate, which made the crimes impossible to solve. Enter the United States Postal Service. Postal Inspector Frank Oldfield finds a man willing to testify, and suddenly the organization is knee-deep in a massive investigation which leads them to one of the first crime rings of Sicilian gangsters in American history. For the first time, law enforcement agencies realize that an organized mafia (known as the Black Hand) exists in the United States. My guests are William Oldfield and Victoria Bruce, authors of "Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society", and share some of the most interesting details from their book on this episode. More information at the publisher page: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Inspector-Oldfield-and-the-Black-Hand-Society/William-Oldfield/9781501171215 Become a Most Notorious patron: https://www.patreon.com/mostnotorious Most Notorious website: https://www.mostnotorious.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:49.1	episodes in the past on the mafia. They're consistently some of the highest listen to episodes
1:55.0	but because we focus on older history here,
1:58.0	I tend to shy away from it.
1:59.0	Plus there are other podcasts that concentrate broad history of the mob from its origins all the
2:08.6	way to its current incarnations better than I am able to do in this format. But there is something about the Black Hand, that
2:18.4	mysterious affiliation of Sicilian gangsters in America, especially at the turn of the century, just fascinates me to no end.
2:27.8	And its structure and methods have always been of great interest to me.
2:32.4	We touched on it in our Axman of New Orleans episode,
2:36.7	but when I came across the book
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