Nun Too Grande

The New York City Crime Report with Pat Dixon

Pat Dixon

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4.2 • 831 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

NYPD and a community of Hasidic Jews clash in Brooklyn, as de Blasio continues to impose his dreadful will on the formerly free people of New York City.

Brutal Crime History Lesson 001 - Brooklyn's All-time Meanest Pimp - DaVernon LeGrande

Phony preacher, pimp, rapist and serial killer DeVernon LaGrande put the fear of God into his Brooklyn neighbors even as he put a crew of hookers disguised as poor nuns out on the subways and in the streets to earn his fortune, which was estimated at $250,000 a year in 1950's dollars. He beat women to death, and had them buried on an upstate property he obtained as a burial ground. He's estimated to have killed 12+ but didn't keep a low profile, instead riding around the city in a cream-colored Caddy complete with a tv and bar inside. Ahead of his time in crime, he preyed on young victims during the 1950's and '60's until finally imprisoned, leaving behind a progeny of 46 children, many of whom followed in his criminal footsteps - notably, DaVernon LeGrande Jr., an ultra violent psychopath who met a bloody end in a Brooklyn numbers joint.

Host Pat Dixon and guest, retired NYPD NightWatch detective Pete Paduccio, take a hard but lighthearted look at one of the scariest killers ever to walk the streets of the city.

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0:00.0	From the smallest room of New York City, I've been depressed.
0:03.5	It gives you a reason to live.
0:05.9	Listen up.
0:10.4	I'm chatting today with 40-year NYPD veteran Pete Paduccio from The Night Watch.
0:17.3	He's a detective.
0:18.6	He's joining me again today.
0:21.4	Hey, Pete, how are you?
0:22.6	Good evening, Pat.
0:23.2	How are you?
0:23.6	I'm doing very well.
0:24.9	We promised to everybody on the last episode we'd be talking about De Vernon.
0:29.7	What's his name?
0:31.1	LaGrand.
0:31.8	What a great name.
0:33.8	De Vernon LeGrand.
0:35.1	It almost sounds like a room in Graceland or something.
0:37.2	The Deverning LeGrand Room. It almost sounds like a room in Graceland or something, the De Vernon LeGrand room.
0:38.6	It's a great name. Yeah. We'll talk about that a little bit later, but first to catch you up on some things happening in New York City.
0:45.9	Some hostile Hasidic demonstrators as they're characterized by the New York Daily News. Now, you can't trust that particular news source to characterize hostility. They don't even characterize their own local government is hostile. They certainly are. This is hours after the beating of an innocent man unconscious, it says, and the torching of masks. Protective face, but they had the nerve. That's worse than burning a flag as well. The beating you've got to take with a grain of salt.
1:12.3	He's a member of that community who, just from what I'm reading in the articles, they were calling
1:17.5	him a snitch.
1:18.2	A snitch.
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