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Mob Queens

Chapter 12: The Godmother

Mob Queens

Jessica Bendinger & Michael Seligman

Business, News, Psychology, 047524, Society & Culture

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Jess and Michael arrive at Anna's gravestone to a bitter surprise. But, their heroine is one step ahead. In the season finale of Mob Queens, Anna Genovese proves she had the last word.

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Look, Genovese, right there on the street.

0:07.0

There it is.

0:09.0

Wow.

0:10.0

Jessica and I are with our producer Claire at St. John's Cemetery in Queens.

0:15.0

I've seen this in pictures.

0:17.0

This is one of the first reporting trips we recorded way back at the start of this year.

0:24.0

We're in the place where our queen, Anna Genovese, is buried right next to her husband,

0:29.0

Vito, in the Genovese family vault.

0:32.0

This is the place where her story ends.

0:35.0

This angel.

0:37.0

So her arms are folded very defiantly.

0:40.0

We are looking at a big tombstone that says Genovese and we know from cemetery records.

0:46.0

Anna was buried here in 1982, but we can't find her name.

0:51.0

Right, just a massive stone slab with the carving of a

0:54.5

palm frond and the words family vault engraved into it. I'm a little

0:58.7

confused. I think we'll find that separate stones. Okay. Well, like I said, this says 11E19.

1:05.4

Anna's name is not carved into any kind of stone anywhere.

1:10.7

It is weird. It feels, it's very, a littleactic. You know in a way I didn't I guess I really thought it would say

1:16.2

Anna Genovese here and it would say a don'tana and there and again the feeling I have that makes me kind of sad is that they are totally erased

1:25.8

from the narrative even in death. I mean this is the closest that we'll ever get to

1:31.6

Anna. Yeah. You know, like in a weird way it's like

1:37.3

we can go to the places that she lived but this is like her physical remains and I think we've been so obsessed for so long with

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