The Dallas Mafia Family – Bonus Episode

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Retired Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins brings you the best in mob history with his unique perception of the mafia. Gary gives an overview of the La Cosa Nostra in Dallas, Texas. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Remember to click on www.BetterHelp.com/gangland for 10% off Subscribe to the Podcast for a new gangster story every week. Support the Podcast. Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here. To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes click here. Please give me a review and help others find the podcast. Donate to the podcast. Click here! Transcript GARY JENKINS 00:00 Well welcome all you Wiretappers out there back here in studio Gangland Wire. As you can see, I don’t know why I say that each time. I’m going to look at the Dallas family now. Dallas. It was part of the Midwest families of those Dallas was they weren’t really connected to Kansas City or Chicago. They were more connected if anybody to Carlos Marcello down in New Orleans, you know southern people. There’s a little bit of action down in Houston and a regular family in Dallas, the first man who be like The Godfather, shall we say the first one from Sicily was a Carlo Paraino to Carlo Paranio came to the United States from Sicily in 1901, with his brother Joseph who will work with him and become his underboss. As he formed a family. They first settled in Shreveport, Louisiana, which is real close to Dallas. I don’t know if you know how close that is, but it’s real close. He began the Dallas faction in 1921, with Joseph as his underboss he will be described as mob historians look back as the original head of the mafia in Texas. Carlo Piraino was born in Corleone, Sicily in 1876. At the same hometown as one of the early New York bosses Giuseppe Morello. He married Carlo Pariano married an 18 year old Italian girl in 1903.

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0:00.0	Well, welcome all you wiretappers out there back here in the studio of Gangland Wire. As you can see,
0:04.5	I don't know why I say that each time. I'm going to look at the Dallas family. Now, Dallas,
0:09.5	you know, is part of the Midwest families. Although, Dallas was, they weren't really connected to Kansas
0:14.6	City or Chicago. They were more connected, if anybody, to Carlos Marcello down in New Orleans, you know, southern people. There's a little
0:22.8	bit of action down in Houston. And a regular family in Dallas. The first man who be like the
0:30.6	godfather, shall we say, the first one from Sicily was a Carlo Piranio. Carlo Perano came to the United States from Sicily in 1901 with his brother
0:40.7	Joseph, who will work with him and become his underboss as he forms a family. They first settled in
0:46.4	Sreveport, Louisiana, which is real close to Dallas. I don't know if you know how close that is,
0:51.3	but it's real close. He began the Dallas faction in
0:54.7	1921 with Joseph as he's under boss. He will be described as mob historians look back as the
1:02.3	original head of the mafia in Texas. Carlo Peronio was born in Corleone, Sicily, in 1876,
1:08.4	and the same hometown as one of the early New York bosses, Giuseppe Morello.
1:14.6	He married Carlo Parano, married an 18-year-old Italian girl in 1903.
1:19.0	They had a son, Angelo, in 1904.
1:21.5	By the time Carlo and his brother, Joseph, moved to Dallas.
1:25.5	It was probably 1905, 6, after Angelo was born. The April 1910 census says that the family
1:34.2	lived temporarily at 7744 Main Street in Dallas. That household had Carlo and Clemencia,
1:41.6	which would be the young 18-year-old girl from Sicily that he married,
1:45.5	his son, Angelo, and his brother, Joseph Parano, and his bride, Lena.
1:50.1	Carlo ran a real estate business out of his house, and Joseph worked as a grocery salesman,
1:55.1	supposedly. Joseph wasn't really settled in Texas. He moved back to Louisiana for a while. And then by
2:02.7	1914, 15, he and his family came back to Dallas. Prohibition takes off. And of course, they
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