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The Underworld Podcast

Calabria’s ‘Ndrangheta vs the Good Mothers with Alex Perry

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6871 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

For decades the ‘Ndrangheta rose to become the world’s most powerful organized crime group—and barely anybody knew who they were. Then the deaths and defiance of women trapped in their medieval, ultra-patriarchal systems exposed the grim truth behind the ‘Ndrangheta’s centuries-old myths. Alex Perry, author of The Good Mothers, joins us to speak about his discoveries writing the book, Mafia fact and fiction—and the dreaded “Lupara Bianca”, or “White Shotgun”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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For a few short days in November 2009, 17-year-old Denise Costco allowed herself to dream of a family life.

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Her mother, Leah Garofalo, was 35 years old, the daughter of a prominent

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member of the Calabrian mafia, the Undrangita. Leah married the rough-necked and pugn get her. Leah married a roughnecked and Pugnose local named Carlo Costco when she was just 16 and

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had Leah a year after that.

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Leah thought Carlo was a way out of the organisation, once steeped in mythology and comprised,

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if you believe the legend, that is, of 141 families strewn in towns and villages along the rugged Calabrian coast.

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But Carlo, an outsider, had seen otherwise.

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Leah was his ticket into the Andrangetta, and he almost immediately embarked upon a career of violence

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and cocaine smuggling, setting up shop in a Milan tower block notorious for his links to

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killers and people smugglers.

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Age 21, Leah had helped cops send Carlo to Milan San Bitore Prison.

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And from age 25 to 31, she and Denise have lived on the run, hiding themselves away in a nearby

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