Hey, Crimetown listeners, this is Mark Smirling. I want to tell you about a new podcast from my friends over at Tenderfoot TV. It's called Crook County, and it's the true story about a young man named Kyle, came to find out that his father was not exactly the man he thought he was. By day, Kyle's dad was a fireman. But for more than 20 years, he was leading a double

life. You see, at night, Kyle's dad was a mafia hitman. Recruited into the legendary Chicago

outfit when he was just 17, Kenny the Kid, Tequila, started off as a doorman at a mob-run

brothel, and he rose through the mafia ranks to become one

of Chicago's most ruthless assassins.

Now he's telling his story to the one guy he definitely owes an explanation to, his son.

Part true crime, part mafia story, part family saga, Crook County doesn't disappoint.

Check out this trailer. While you listen, search

Crook County and your podcast app to follow the show.

I've done criminal defense now for almost 37 years. It takes one guy out there to say,

who's that fucking asshole Kyle who thinks he can just

get on a goddamn microphone on a podcast and start publicizing this shit.

Earlier this morning, detectives and federal agents invaded a junkyard in DuPage County just west of Chicago.

In keeping with the legendary MO of the Chicago mob, officials fully expected that they

might find corpses inside the trunk of the automobile. From IHeart Podcasts and Tenderfoot TV

comes a new true crime podcast, Crook County. I got recruited into the mob when I was 17 years old. Me Kenny, aka the kid.

I ran whorehouses and I did hits.

An enforcer for the legendary Chicago outfit.

I wanted him to know I meant fucking business here.

Put the gun back up to his forehead.

He lived a secret double life as a firefighter paramedic for the Chicago Fire Department.

I had a wife and I have two children. Nobody knew anything. I always believed whatever he said,

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