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Crimetown

S1 E09: A Deal With the Devil

Crimetown

Gimlet

Government, Society & Culture, News

4.614.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

One night in 1982, a 20-year-old man is senselessly murdered at an abandoned gas station. A mobster is taken into witness protection after he pins the murder on his boss. This brutal crime will push three wiseguys out of the mafia in very different ways. For a full list of credits, and for more information about this episode, visit crimetownshow.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I owned a gold store. I sold jewelry, precious metals and stuff like that.

0:09.1

This is Bobby Wallaceon. You'll remember him from episode two, the guy with the tough

0:13.9

childhood who went to prison at 16 and wound up an enforcer in the Patriarcha Crime

0:18.8

family. By the 1980s, Bobby had opened a side business, a jewelry store. One day, a

0:25.9

mob associate of his, a guy named Billy Furley, came through the door. Billy came

0:32.4

walking in, says, hey, Bobby, are you doing listening to the war about nothing? Everything's

0:37.8

cool. Nothing's going to happen to you. I said, what? He said, yeah, yeah, everything's

0:45.7

cool. I'm just trying to let you know everything's all right. And he was wearing a big

0:49.9

down jacket in October. Very, very suspicious. So I said, come in here, Billy. I got to finish

0:58.9

this piece of jewelry. So I turned my lower system on and my buffer. Now, you can barely

1:06.5

hear each other. You know what I mean? I knew he was bugged. I knew he was wired for sound.

1:16.8

I said, what are you talking about? As they polished the ring. He said, I'm just telling

1:22.4

you don't worry about nothing. I don't worry. In the mob, when someone tells you not to

1:28.6

worry, it's time to worry, especially if that someone is Billy. I hated them. Piece

1:37.2

of shit. Nobody like Billy fairly except Bobo. He was Bobo's guy. Bobo is Frank Marpezi,

1:48.6

a powerful mob captain just two spots below Raymond Patriarcha on the mob chart. And he

1:54.7

was Bobby's boss. Bobo look like paparazzi. Same height, same belt. Miley's spoken man.

2:05.2

You know, he just like some of these guys, they get raspy voices. Hey, I don't know. He

2:11.1

wasn't like that. You know, he had a nice personality. He really did. After that visit

2:19.1

at the jewelry store, Bobby suspected Billy for a little hit flipped. So Bobby went to

2:24.2

Warren Bobo. I told him I said, listen, this guy, he's going to turn. I mean, I think

2:31.0

he's already turned. And I tell you the truth, I wanted to take him out, but we've got

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