The Confessions of Anthony Raimondi

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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In 1978, Pope John Paul I was found dead in his bed just 33 days after he was elected. The official story is that he suffered a fatal heart attack. But in the years since his death, some have claimed he was murdered to cover up crimes in the Vatican. The question of the Pope’s death has never been definitively answered, but there is one man who claims to know the truth. A man from one of New York City’s crime families who has deep ties to the Italian mafia. He was there the day of the Pope’s death and witnessed his murder firsthand. Or, at least, that’s what he says. His name is Anthony Raimondi, and these are his confessions.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.4	It's like my father says, no matter what you're doing this world, you're going to pay a price.
0:12.0	Anthony Ramundi wants to make peace with God.
0:15.1	I'll probably drop there of either cancer or a heart attack.
0:18.1	There's nothing I can do that's going to stop it.
0:20.2	Recent health problems have Anthony reflecting on his 30 years in the Brooklyn Mafia.
0:25.3	On the street, you got a problem with a guy, the guy gets whacked, who gives a shit, you know?
0:29.5	But there's one murder from his past that Anthony Rumundi worries might get him turned away
0:34.0	at the pearly gates.
0:36.2	I'm going to go to heaven. God's going to say,
0:38.7	nah, fuck you.
0:39.6	You killed one of my popes.
0:42.5	A shocking update here from the Vatican.
0:45.6	Pope John Paul I, has died.
0:48.1	The youngest pope that died in 400 years.
0:50.9	They have said he died of a heart attack,
0:52.8	but he had no heart problems. I'm Mark Smirling,
0:58.4	filmmaker and podcaster, but for the past year, I felt like a priest, taking dizzying
1:03.3	confessions from a brutal mafia enforcer. They says, I want to be like you guys. My cousin
1:09.2	McElaglia gun, he put it right to my mouth.
1:12.0	From his baptism into the family business at just 16,
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