Mob Fences, Cocaine, and Prison Ministry | Bill Corum Interview
Gangland Wire
Gary Jenkins
4.6 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Bill Corum recounts his journey from car theft and prison escapes in the early 1960s to his deep involvement in Kansas City’s criminal underworld in the 1970s and early 1980s. He describes his work around pornography, prostitution, stolen property, cocaine trafficking, and his connections to notorious Kansas City underworld figures.
Gary and Bill discuss legendary Kansas City mob fence Sol Landi and his murder by assassins sent by the mob, the River Quay era, Junior Bradley, corrupt influences in local politics and the courts, and the explosive cocaine culture that swept through Kansas City during the 1980s. Bill also shares stories involving Weld Wheels founder Kenny Weld, cocaine trafficking operations, and the dangerous atmosphere surrounding organized crime in Kansas City.
The conversation dives into:
Bill’s prison escape and stolen car career
The prostitution business in Independence, Missouri
Mob-connected fences and stolen property rings
Cocaine trafficking in Kansas City during the early 1980s
The murder of Saul Landy
River Quay nightlife and mob influence
Corrupt officials and criminal networks
Kansas City organized crime personalities
Prison life and criminal culture
Bill Corum’s dramatic religious conversion in 1983
His decades-long prison ministry work across America
Bill also explains how he transformed his life after addiction, violence, and years in the criminal world, eventually dedicating his life to prison outreach and ministry programs throughout the United States.
You can learn more about Bill Corum and his book at either The Ultimate Pardon or Bill Corum Official Website
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, all you wiretappers. Gary Jenkins here, retired Kansas City Police Detective and the Intelligence Unit, |
| 0:05.8 | turned podcaster and author and documentary filmmaker. If you want to see any of my stuff, |
| 0:11.2 | go to my website and look in the show notes or look in the, I think, the donate page. |
| 0:15.6 | Of course, if you're in the donate page, you might want to hit the donate button. |
| 0:18.4 | We always use a little support. little support and i have a guy |
| 0:21.7 | that i'd heard of and i'd seen on youtube and i i have mute we have mutual friends but i had never |
| 0:29.4 | actually met him and i so i some people he knows asked me to be on their show and so i was on |
| 0:36.5 | their show and bill was on that show at the same time. So we started talking. We had lunch and we had all these. We were running in the same circles, but separate circles that it overlapped every once a while. He was on one side of law and I was on the other. So Bill Corum, welcome, Bill. Thank you, Gary. Thank you so much. |
| 0:54.8 | And we were running in opposite. |
| 0:56.8 | We were running real close, but I was careful. |
| 0:59.8 | When I got out of prison, when I got out of prison in 1964, I had two goals. |
| 1:05.7 | Never go back and never get caught. |
| 1:08.5 | And I started breaking the law the day I got out of prison and I broke the law |
| 1:12.9 | for almost 19 years and didn't get caught. I got caught a couple times in little things and I got, |
| 1:18.7 | I hired a high-powered criminal attorney that came out of Alex People's office, who's now a judge. |
| 1:25.0 | I won't even mention his name. He's now a judge. I think I told you |
| 1:28.3 | who it was. But Alex got me out of a couple deals way back when, but little things. And I was still |
| 1:34.5 | doing everything. And I went for almost 19 years and didn't get caught. Unlike many of my friends, |
| 1:40.7 | I've been in prison ministry for 40 years now. And I run around with a lot of guys that did a lot of time, 25 years, 40 years, they had double life without parole, |
| 1:50.1 | now they're out, but I never got caught. And I was speaking in a women's prison just recently, |
| 1:56.0 | and I was talking to the women, and I was telling that story. I said, I got out, and I went for 19 |
| 2:00.6 | years. She said, you must have been awful smart. I said, I wasn't too smart. I wouldn't have been doing that stuff. But I did no ways. And one thing was because I didn't talk to people. I didn't have a lot of kind of like the trench coat robbers. They robbed banks for 15 years and never got caught because they didn't email, text, |
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