Mob Stories from the Front Line – Bonus
Gangland Wire
Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective
4.6 • 645 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hey, all you are, tapers out there, back here in the studio. |
| 0:03.0 | As you can see, we had our, the last man standing in a way, Kansas City Mafia, and he's younger |
| 0:09.4 | and me, actually, he's only 73. |
| 0:11.5 | Willie Comasano Jr. died today. |
| 0:14.1 | His father was the feared mafia and capo named Willie the Rat or Willie Rats. |
| 0:20.5 | They mean Willie Rats because he had a rat terrier that like to go around and kill rats. |
| 0:24.6 | Willie Jr., we used to call him Willie the mouse. |
| 0:27.6 | A lot of people called him Little Willie, but he was his father's son, and they were both feared mafia enforcers. |
| 0:34.6 | So Willie Jr., I remember one time we tried to run in on him. He was, |
| 0:39.7 | he had a connection with a guy that had a buy here, pay here, use car lot. He must have probably |
| 0:44.9 | was getting money out of that. We had a guy undercover got him all decked out in a crappola car. |
| 0:52.3 | And he came in and was like looking for to buy a car and loaded up his |
| 0:57.8 | trunk with a bunch of property that looked like it might be stolen. And so he, you know, |
| 1:03.3 | he said, hey, I got a deal here. And they knew that Willie Jr., he's a big hunter and a fisherman, |
| 1:09.1 | you know, had fishing equipment, had really high-end |
| 1:11.2 | fishing equipment. He had some other things. I don't remember what all he had exactly, but mainly |
| 1:15.8 | the fishing equipment. And so he came in two or three times, and he tried to move in a little |
| 1:21.0 | closer when Willie Jr. was there and tried to interest him in some of this fishing equipment |
| 1:25.8 | he had. You know, come on out, take a look at this in the trunk and, you know, really high-end stuff. |
| 1:30.9 | And Willie Jr. just, you know, he didn't even hardly talk to him. |
| 1:34.2 | He just said, no, and walked back away and just stayed away from the guy. |
| 1:38.3 | So he was pretty canny. |
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