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Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.6645 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Gary Jenkins interviews Lieutenant (Ret) Michale Callahan, who tells how the Illinois State Police assigned him to review a murder investigation. His command staff learned that the television show Dateline was doing a show that will allege the State's Attorney and the Illinois State Police wrongfully convicted two defendants. Lt. Calahan's assignment will lead to the court overturning two murder convictions and free one of these men from Death Row

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0:00.0

Where'd you get those shoes? Easy. They're from DSW, because DSW has the exact right shoes for whatever you're into right now.

0:08.0

You know, like the sneakers that make office hours feel like happy hour.

0:12.2

The boots that turn grocery aisles into runways, and all the styles that show off the many sides of you,

0:18.5

from Daydreamer to multitasker and everything in between,

0:22.0

because you do it all in really great shoes.

0:24.8

Find a shoe for every you at your DSW store or DSW.com.

0:34.6

You are listening to Gangland Wire, hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective, Gary Jenkins.

0:48.6

Well, welcome all you wiretappers out there. I'm down here in Texas, Actually, I'm on my spring break for the whole month.

0:56.0

As some of you guys may know by the time this comes out, it won't come out till probably be hot back up in Kansas City.

1:04.1

But I found out about a story from actually from a fan whose dad was a chief of police in Illinois and in in in this fan who's

1:13.1

all of a sudden I can't remember his name. He told me I need to get hold of a man named Mike

1:18.5

Callahan who was a former Illinois state trooper. He was a lieutenant and he was in charge of an

1:25.6

investigation that got a man off a death row and he also said

1:30.1

the pizza connection case was all wrapped up in this and you know i'm i'm interested in that

1:34.9

pizza connection i've done a lot of interviews about that and got a multi-episode series on that so

1:40.0

now that i'm down here in texas i just got hold of mike and and i'm sitting down here in Texas, I just got hold of Mike and I'm sitting down here

1:45.5

in his house right now.

1:46.8

Mike, welcome.

1:47.7

Thank you.

1:48.7

Now Mike was a lieutenant with the Illinois State Police when he retired.

1:53.6

Mike, tell the folks out there a little bit about your career as a state trooper.

1:57.7

Well, I started with the Illinois State Police in 1980.

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