Episode 113 - The Hustler
The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories
themindsofmadness
4.4 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Whether or not you're into mafia films like The Godfather or Goodfellas, you're guaranteed to love this episode - a story filled with all the makings of a Hollywood movie: comedy, romance, schemes, scams, sketchy characters, violence...and the occasional murder.
This is a story about a man born into a life of crime and raised by a prominent mafia family in Detroit, Michigan - Gunner Alan Lindbloom. In this episode, he takes us back to his troubling childhood and into his professional life of crime where he eventually finds redemption and love in the unlikeliest of places.
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Research & Writing:
Ryan Deininger
Special Thanks:
Gunner Lindbloom
https://www.youtube.com/c/GunnerLindbloom
https://www.facebook.com/gunnerdetroit
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https://www.amazon.ca/BE-KING-Gunner-Lindbloom-ebook/dp/B01N6RQ3AE
Maria Lindbloom
https://player.fm/podcasts/maria-lindbloom
Justin Rimmel
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Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/c/GunnerLindbloom
https://www.gunnerdetroit.com/
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/detroitnews/name/peter-tocco-obituary?pid=182296126
https://detroit.cbslocal.com/2011/06/24/organized-crime-in-detroit-forgotten-but-not-gone/
https://americanmafiahistory.com/giacomo-black-jack-tocco/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tocco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Partnership
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| 0:00.0 | The opinions expressed in the following episode do not necessarily reflect those of the minds |
| 0:05.0 | of Madness podcast. |
| 0:06.8 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:37.7 | Throughout the 20th century, the Detroit Mafia established itself as one of the most organized |
| 0:43.6 | and successful crime families in the United States. Officially founded in 1931, |
| 0:49.8 | under the leadership of William Blackbill Toco, the family, known as the Detroit Partnership, |
| 0:56.4 | built an underground empire, essentially using the millions that made during prohibition |
| 1:01.7 | as a startup fund. Smaller and more secretive than the crime families of New York and Philadelphia, |
| 1:08.0 | the Detroit Mafia has quietly persisted as one of the most powerful, loyal and unassailable crime |
| 1:15.0 | families in America. Join me now as we take a look at the life of Gunner Allen Lindblum, a child |
| 1:23.4 | born into the world of organized crime. You'll learn how one of the most violent enforcers on the |
| 1:29.9 | streets of Detroit found redemption and love in the unlikeless of places. |
| 1:45.6 | When Detroit mob boss Blackbill Toco was arrested for tax evasion in 1936, his brother-in-law, |
| 1:53.1 | Joseph Zarelli, was appointed boss. Zarelli successfully ran the Detroit mob for the next 41 years, |
| 2:00.8 | passing away in 1977 without ever admitting he had any involvement with organized crime in Detroit, |
| 2:08.4 | and with his passing, leadership was transferred onto his nephew, Jack Toco. |
| 2:14.6 | The secrecy surrounding the Detroit Mafia is without equal anywhere else in the United States, |
| 2:20.8 | but this isn't by accident. Their strict code of keeping membership exclusively within the family |
| 2:27.6 | has been the key to their success and unparalleled loyalty for nearly 100 years. |
| 2:34.3 | In 1973, Gunner Allen Lindblum was born to Grace Carmilla Toco, the daughter of a respected |
| 2:41.6 | Mafia member in Detroit, and a last name that's still to this day carries the weight of mob royalty |
| 2:49.1 | in the motor city. But Gunner's father wasn't from one of the families. In fact, he wasn't even Italian, |
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