The Vice Squad
THE VICE SQUAD PODCAST True American crime history with host and author Vince Guerrieri. Season One of The Vice Squad Pod shines a light on the seedy underbelly of Youngstown, Ohio and the surrounding region. A midwestern, rustbelt crime town on Ohio's Northeastern border with Pennsylvania. Also featuring the writings of author/retired Police Chief Rick Porrello and filmmaker/podcast producer Johnny Chechitelli along with his fellow Youngstown Mob Talk co-host/mafia historian James Naples III. Together, The Vice Squad looks back at the most infamous, daring, bizarre and mysterious crimes of the 20th century. Rick Porrello is an author, drummer, and former police chief with a knack for writing books that attract interest from filmmakers (To Kill The Irishman and Superthief). Grab a copy of his latest book, There's More Bodies Out There: The True Story of a Mafia Associate and a Cop who Emerge as Suspected Serial Killers. He carries the last name of one of the first families in Cleveland's organized crime lore. Vince Guerrieri writes for a variety of publications, including The Smithsonian Magazine, Popular Mechanics, POLITICO, Defector, and CityLab. He's also co-author of one book and the author of two more, most recently, Weird Moments in Cleveland Sports. Johnny Chechitelli is a filmmaker and podcast producer behind the documentary Youngstown: Still Standing and the podcast Crooked City: Youngstown Ohio. He is one half of Youngstown Mob Talk with his co-host James Naples III and is the founder of Amazing Podcast Company. James Naples III is a descendent of Youngstown, Ohio's famous Naples brothers. He is also one half of the Youngstown Mob Talk podcast with Johnny Chechitelli, an accomplished mob historian with a Masters degree in Professional Communication, currently teaching for Youngstown City Schools.
Episodes
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Part 3 of this exclusive 5-part series, presented by Youngstown Mob Talk. In 1980, Youngstown Mob associate John Magda was found dead in a roadside dump site. His hands were bound and his face was wrapped in duct tape. For decades, speculation has run rampant about who killed him and why. Now, for the first time ever, the details of John "Maggie" Magda's death...
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Part 2 of this exclusive 5-part series, presented by Youngstown Mob Talk. In part 1 of this exclusive 5-part series, we detailed the Youngstown Mob scene in the late 1970s/early 1980s and the previously unsolved murder of Joe DeRose Jr.. Now in part 2, we explore who killed Dominic "Junior" Senzarino, a cousin of the Carabbia brothers and experienced burglar, ...
Youngstown Mob Talk and The Vice Squad Podcast presents Part 1 of a brand new, exclusive 5-Part investigative series: From Burglars to Murders, Who Hit the Hitman Joe DeRose?
This story was compiled from information contained within investigative task force files from the Ohio Attorney General’s Organized Crime Investigation Commission. Included are details about crimes which have never been publicly released. These files were provi...
James Mancini, aka "Big Jimmy" Munsene was the first notorious crime boss of Ohio's Trumbull County. Munsene controlled gambling in the county and had clubs as far away as Atlantic City, NJ before he was gunned down in cold blood, along with his nephew, in Warren on March 24, 1941. He famously went on trial for the same act of bribery on three separate occasions, even hiring the country's most famous trial lawyer, Clarence Darrow, ...
On this episode, author Rick Porrello writes about his own family's organized crime history in Cleveland, Ohio as his grandfather and great uncles waged a war with their former friends and fellow bootleggers, the Lonardo brothers. It was all over corn sugar, which was used to make booze during prohibition in America.
The Vice Squad Podcast delves into one of the most daring train robberies in American history. On November 7, 1935, as the mid-west crime wave continued, infamous criminal Alvin "Creepy" Karpis and his gang pulled off a heist that shocked the nation in Garrettsville, Ohio. In this riveting episode, our hosts explore the details of the crime, the personalities of its mastermind, and the aftermath of the robbery including FBI Directo...
There was once a place in Trumbull County Ohio, just outside of Youngstown city limits, called Halls Corners, which was "conceived in infamy!" according to Youngstown Police Chief Eddie Allen. Halls Corners was a tiny, unincorporated township created solely for the purpose of operating a casino called The Jungle Inn. A mob run establishment for years, The Jungle Inn was operated by twin brothers John & Mike Farah on behalf of t...
From Cleveland to Youngstown to Pittsburgh, a serial killer wreaked havoc along the railyards from the 1920s to the 1940s. Sometimes known as "The Mad Butcher," this murderer chopped up his victims and left them for police or passers-by to find. Despite best efforts from detectives in Ohio and Pennsylvania, the killer was never caught. Not even famed lawman Eliot Ness could solve the case and bring the "Mad Butcher" to justice.
On this episode we give you a condensed history of organized crime in the Mahoning Valley. Future episodes will air bi-weekly, and will dive deeper into individual criminals and crimes from the Youngstown/Cleveland/Pittsburgh region.
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