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Mafia

S3 Ep13: Bonus 05: Inside the Safes

Mafia

Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Gangsters Walter Scheib and Frank Hoffman owned one of the most successful speakeasies during the prohibition. But Hoffman disappeared in the 1940s, leaving behind 2 iron safes . . . and what was inside would pull a local family into a murder mystery.

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Mafia's theme is "Spellbound Hell" by Damiano Baldoni. Music in this episode is ”Misery" by Damiano Baldoni; “Rollin at 5,” “Heart of the Beast,” “On the Ground,” and “I Knew a Guy,” by Kevin MacLeod; “Oxygen Garden” by Chris Zabriskie; “Imminence” and “Dark Alleys” by Kai Engel; and “Angst” by Xenojam.

Sound Effects from freesound.org by carloscarty, kfosse13 , InspectorJ, tim.kahn, stereostereo, onteca, jorickhoofd, PeteBarry, constructabeat, Sandermotions, Suncord_Audiolab, and sound_ims. Additional sound effects from freesfx.co.uk. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.

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0:00.0

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0:05.8

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0:11.4

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0:18.2

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0:23.0

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0:27.8

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0:31.2

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0:33.2

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0:37.6

that will bring to life some of your favourite podcasts and amazing venues all across London.

0:43.2

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0:46.6

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0:49.8

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0:55.2

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1:02.6

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1:11.8

At the height of Prohibition, a small tenement in the East Village had a well-known secret.

1:16.8

A speak easy.

1:18.8

The little hangout on St. Mark's Place in Manhattan

1:22.2

was the hippest place around to get some illicit alcohol for everyone.

1:27.8

And so it was kind of like the downtown store club.

1:32.0

The, in the hierarchy of the places, the real economic elite went to the store club.

1:41.0

The political elite, the mayor, for example, would go to the 21 club.

1:45.4

The City Council would come here.

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