Willem Holleeder Part 1

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Willem Holleeder In this story about Willem Holleeder, I interview a Netherlands based crime writer David Amaruso about the John Gotti of the Netherlands. He was a young guy from the middle class with all the advantages of a nice family until his father’s alcoholism caused the Heineken Brewery to fire him. Holleeder gets back at the Heineken company Willem Holleeder burst into the European public’s imagination for his audacious kidnapping of Heineken beer baron, Freddy Heineken. Anthony Hopkins starred in a biopic film titled Kidnapping Freddy Heineken adding to the myth of Willem Holleeder as a master criminal. He recruited some other small-time criminals and they walked away with about 20 million in U.S. dollars. Authorities solved this crime and in 1987, they caught him hiding in Paris. A Dutch court sentenced Hollender to 11 years in prison. Authorities released him in 5 years. Prison time In Part 1, David Amoruso tells the story of the kidnapping of Freddie Heineken, who was involved, how they were caught, and how this crime caught the public’s attention. The public and the press saw Willem Holleeder, aka “The Nose,” as a mythical benevolent criminal following in the footsteps of Robin Hood, Jesse James, John Dillinger, and John Gotti. The men who joined in this kidnapping were Cor van Hout, Jan Boelaard, Frans Meijer, and Martin Erkamps and all served prison sentences. the authorities were never able to recover several millions of the Ranson. While in prison, Holleeder met other gangsters and emerged from prison a full-fledged gang boss intent on living the life of a master criminal. David Amoruso I recommend you go to David’s website, Gangstersinc by clicking here. David has written about American gangsters and famous American crimes as well as the International Camorra and ‘Ndrangheta in Italy and Sicily and other European criminal organizations. To go to the store or make a donation Click Here. To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here. To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast

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0:00.0	You are listening to Gangland Wire, hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective Gary Jenkins.
0:16.7	Well, welcome all you wiretappers out there.
0:20.1	I'm going to be talking to my good friend from across the pond tonight. We're going to be talking with David M. Rousseau. He has the Gangsters Incorporated website, blog site, and Facebook page. David, welcome.
0:38.4	Thank you.
0:38.9	Thank you for having me, Gary.
0:40.9	So, David, I'm looking back over here.
0:44.3	You are a nationally known expert on global organized crime, which is, I like that idea,
0:52.4	and we're going to talk about an organized crime person that's not particularly
0:56.3	Lacostinoza or even mafia or even any kind of Italian mafia. He was his own criminal, but I like
1:03.5	these stories about these guys that think big, that go for the big score. And in the past, you've done, oh God, you are a co-author of the Encyclopedia of International
1:16.1	Organized Crime, Mafia, the book The Mob Wouldn't Want Published.
1:23.3	You write for Mob Candy magazine, the Tampa Mafia magazine, Guerrilla Convict.
1:29.3	You've been used as an expert by well-known outlets like Vice, USA Today, the BBC, and the Discovery Channel.
1:39.5	You work with Paramount Pictures, talking, brainstorming ideas for motion pictures about organized crime,
1:46.7	which, you know, that's a, there's a never-ending stream of organized crime pictures now on
1:52.1	Netflix and Amazon. There's a lot of money going in for out there for content. You are a contributor
1:57.5	to our friend Ron Chipposick, I think is how you pronounce that,
2:01.6	crime beat radio.
2:03.9	You're a crime expert and co-host on that once in a while.
2:07.7	Your Twitter feeds are at Gangsters Incorporated web.
2:12.2	That's at Gangsters, I-C-W-B.
2:16.3	You're on Facebook at Gangsters Incorporated, and Instagram at Gangsters, I-N-C-W-E-B. You're on Facebook at Gangsters Incorporated and Instagram at Gangters, Inc.
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