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Michigan Monsters

S1 Ep8: Michigangsters

Michigan Monsters

Jenn Carpenter

True Crime, History

4.9656 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Al Capone, Mickey Cohen, The Purple Gang. Join Dani and Jenn as they discuss some of the most infamous gangsters ever to terrorize Mid-Michigan.

Support the show (http://patreon.com/sodeadpodcast)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, are you looking for a true crime podcast to binge?

0:04.5

Check out True Crime Obsessed, where we recap the true crime documentaries everyone's talking about.

0:09.3

We've been one of the top true crime podcasts for almost nine years.

0:12.2

And we have over 400 episodes for you to check out right now.

0:15.6

We cover the cases everyone is talking about, and we also highlight the cases that have been

0:18.8

underreported, overlooked, or forgotten.

0:25.9

With over 30,000 five-star reviews on Apple Podcasts, if you've never checked out True Crime Obsessed,

0:53.9

now's the time to give us Fairman. Happy True Crime Tuesday. Welcome to So Dead, a podcast So Good, it's Criminal.

0:55.3

I'm Jen Carpenter.

0:56.6

And I'm Deannie Fairman.

0:58.3

Happy True Crime Tuesday.

1:00.9

And happy Taco Tuesday, girls and boys.

1:04.3

Today we're going to be talking about gangsters.

1:05.2

Gangsters.

1:06.4

And I'm so excited.

1:17.9

Michigan isn't typically associated with organized crime, but we do have our connections to mob kingpins and other undesirables.

1:20.3

And we're talking the big guns too.

1:21.1

Yes. Like Al Capone, Mickey Cohen, the Purple Gang.

1:25.5

The big dogs.

1:26.6

Right.

1:27.5

So Mickey Cohen was the mob kingpin of the West Coast in the mid-1900s following the death of his mentor, famed gangster Bugsy Segal.

1:37.2

In his youth, Mickey Cohen was involved in an illegal boxing ring and was an accomplished prize fighter.

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