Did Marshall Caifano kill Ray Ryan?

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Venmo me @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup click here Ray Ryan was a wealthy developer, casino owner, and Texas oil Man. He beat Nick the Greek Dandolos out of a lot of money in a poker game. Later, the Chicago Outfit’s man in Vegas, Marshall Caifano, went to Ryan and threatened to expose him as a cheat in this game unless Ryan paid him off to keep his mouth shut. Ryan refused and ended up testifying against Caifano. At trial, a jury convicted Caifano and sentenced him to ten years. Thirteen years after the trial, on October 18, 1977, Raymond Ryan worked out in his exercise club in Evansville, Indiana, left, entered his Lincoln Continental Mark IV, and died from a bomb rigged to the car. I suspect Caifano, what do you think? Venmo me @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here. To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast.

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0:00.0	Well, hey, all you wiretappers out there.
0:01.5	I've got a fun little story for you today.
0:03.3	I'll have to refer to my notes here a little bit.
0:05.3	I just stumbled across it.
0:06.3	I just thought it was interesting.
0:08.2	One of my motorcycle riding friends from Chicago, Alex sent this to me.
0:13.8	He sends me something every once in a while.
0:15.4	And all these stories are like they're too long to have to do a lot of research.
0:20.1	So I have to think about what I'm
0:21.3	going to do. But this is kind of a short one, just interesting little story I thought was a guy
0:26.4	named Ray Ryan, businessman, an oil man, a developer, and a notorious gamble. He discovered the
0:36.9	largest oil field in West Texas, and he developed a lot of Palm Springs,
0:43.3	California. So he's pretty well known out on the west coast there. And he owned hotels and
0:49.0	resorts all over the world. It was hugely wealthy, particularly in Europe. He had a lot of movie stars that were his
0:56.9	friends, you know, because of Palm Springs, he probably played golf, Bob Hope, and Brin Cosby, Clark
1:03.8	Gable, William Holden, kind of all the macho guys who probably liked golf and gamble, too.
1:10.0	So in 1963,
1:13.3	maybe this is when he became the most famous gambler of all.
1:17.3	He did a head-to-head-and match at the Flamingo in Las Vegas with Nick the Greek.
1:24.0	Oh boy, I don't know how to pronounce that name.
1:26.4	Nick the Greek, anyhow, he was a famous gambler in those 50s and 60s in Las Vegas.
1:32.2	I think he's the guy that ended up doing the, sat in the line, used to be on TV.
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