There's a quote from author and journalist Hunter S. Thompson that says,

look is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their

balance on it. That is true of every Irish criminal on this countdown today. All of their

luck ran out eventually, some faster than others. And for the violent Irish mobster at number one,

he had no one to blame but himself.

Hey all you weirdos, welcome to Crime Countdown, a Spotify original from podcast. I'm Ash

and I'm Elena. Every week we'll highlight ten fascinating stories of history's most engaging

and unsettling crimes, all picked by the podcast research gods. This episode we're counting down

the top ten unlockiest Irish criminals. So I immediately think of whitey when I think of Irish

criminals because I am from Boston and I think that's just like in our DNA. Yeah Irish criminal whitey,

what? Of course, automatic. It's like being just pops up in your brain. He was the first person I

thought about when I found out we were covering this topic. And to be honest, I don't think I

recognized any of the other names on my side of the list. Oh, that's kind of funny. I recognized

a few, but even I was surprised and very horrified by number one. I did not know who that person was

and I was like, oh, and you said they were violent. Oh, horrifying. Okay, I'm, yeah, dare I say excited,

to find out who that is a little. Well, especially because I thought my number two would be number one.

So I feel like your number one has to be pretty bad. I bet I know who your number two is now.

That's like a running theme lately, but that's how this whole thing works. Alina has five Irish

criminals and so do I, but neither of us knows who is on the other ones list. Let's start the countdown.

10

Catherine Nevin

Catherine made a horrible discovery on March 19, 1996 when she found her husband murdered in the

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