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Gangland Wire

Tony Spilotro had a Bad Day

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.6647 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Retired Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins brings you the best in mob history with his unique perception of the mafia. In this episode, I describe details about the horrific demise of mobsters Tony and Michael Spilotro, as told in open court by the recently deceased Chicago Outfit member Nick Calabrese. I also introduce my latest book, "Windy City Mafia: The Chicago Outfit," which features gripping tales from my podcast about the rise of organized crime in Chicago. Overall, the episode offers a chilling glimpse into the realities of mob life while encouraging listeners to engage further with organized crime narratives through my book.

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0:00.0

Well, hey, all you wiretappers.

0:01.9

Gary Jenkins, retired Kansas Police Intelligence Sergeant, Detective Sergeant later on.

0:07.0

Back here in the studio, Gangland Wire, with this episode, I'm, you got to bear with me, guys.

0:12.8

I'm going to do a little selling at the very start.

0:16.1

I usually sell anything I got to sell at the end or asking for support or whatever. But at the start, we're going to do a little promotion. I have a book that I just did. And I'm going to give you, I'm going to reward you. I'm going to give you a story, an interesting story. But to start, I have a book here that I've done, Wendy City Mafia, the Chicago outfit. You can see it back over my shoulder

0:39.0

there like any good day. You ever seen any author being interviewed on a podcast on YouTube.

0:44.8

You'll see they have the book propped up over their shoulder. So anyhow, I've done this book.

0:49.3

And what I did says stories from Gangland Wire. So I took a bunch of my different chicago stories and i just

0:56.7

take my show notes and my uh the transcript and then distill that down into a short story so it's a

1:04.6

variety of different chapters each one is different it's uh let's see we got the, I did overview, the rise of the Chicago outfit,

1:13.5

kind of an overview of that. Then I've got seven chapters, which I've got Scarface on the

1:20.4

golf course, which I thought was a really funny story and a good one. The trial of Al Capone,

1:24.7

that's a first person account that I found, and I put some other things together and did a show on that.

1:30.7

The rise of Tony Acardo, Joe Batters, the murder of Estelle Carey, which was a particularly horrific murder.

1:41.2

I found a story about the Chicago Police Intelligence Unit serving a search warrant on an outfit gambling house and bookmen.

1:49.5

They found a bunch of bookmaking records.

1:51.9

Not a near and dear to my own heart.

1:54.4

I was part of the intelligence unit.

1:55.8

We never served any search warrants.

1:57.7

We set up some other people for advice to go serve the search warrants had an

2:01.8

interview with frank calabrese junior and so i went back through that and pulled out a lot of the

2:07.7

salient details about the calabrese family and finally i did a the executioner fear in the

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