Episode 2: The Murder

Deep Cover

Pushkin Industries

True Crime, History

4.3 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

September 1972. A teamster named William Logan is gunned down outside his home, in what’s widely thought to be a mob hit. The Logan family is determined to get justice, but it may not be so easy.

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0:00.0	Pushkin
0:11.0	Jake Halpern here.
0:12.5	Before we get started, I wanted you to know that Deep Cover Season 2 will be dropping
0:17.6	weekly on Mondays.
0:19.8	But the full season is available right now, ad-free for Pushkin Plus subscribers.
0:26.8	That's all 10 episodes right away.
0:29.8	Find Pushkin Plus on the Deep Cover Show page in Apple Podcasts or at Pushkin.fm.
0:47.6	Ever since the days of Al Capone, the outfit had been an almost unstoppable force in the
0:53.4	city of Chicago.
0:55.6	The mob had corrupted many of the city's judges and politicians, and its hitmen killed
1:00.3	with impunity.
1:02.9	Then in the spring of 1986, something unexpected happened.
1:07.4	A mob lawyer named Bob Cooley walked into the offices of federal prosecutors and offered
1:13.5	to switch sides.
1:15.3	The prosecutor he spoke with was stunned.
1:18.3	You know, why have the gods delivered this gift to me?
1:22.7	There has got to be something wrong with this.
1:24.8	I had profound questions about his motivation.
1:28.9	I think everybody did.
1:31.2	In the eyes of federal prosecutors, Bob's story and his offer seemed almost too good to
1:37.1	be true.
1:38.7	So the feds couldn't help but wonder what was Bob Cooley really after?
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