Vintage Crime Wave
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Vintage Crime Wave specializes in Prohibition and Depression Era crime and criminals with an emphasis on New York City's bootleggers, mobsters and desperadoes.
My name is Patrick Downey and I have been researching and writing about these guys, and in some cases women, for years. My books include Gangster City: History of the New York Underworld 1900-1935, Legs Diamond: Gangster, Bad..
Vintage Crime Wave
5d ago
Over the course of ten years, it is thought that gangland killer Harry Strauss AKA Pittsburgh Phil took part in over thirty underworld executions. During the Murder Incorporated investigations, the D.A.'s office was able to link him to at least seventeen. Those seventeen are explored in this video ..read more
Vintage Crime Wave
1M ago
During Prohibition, Southside gang leader Frank McErlane was called Chicago's deadliest gangster. A true psychopath, he was the first gangster to use a Tommy Gun and was said to have originated the "One-Way-Ride". Unlike most gang leaders of the era who separated themselves from murder. McErlane reveled in it ..read more
Vintage Crime Wave
2M ago
In 1931, NYC gangster brothers Abe and Al Wagner brought on the wrath of Murder Inc. They got one in New York but the other fled halfway across the country to save his life. Surely, he'd be safe 1200 miles away right ..read more
Vintage Crime Wave
2M ago
Charles "Chink" Sherman was a notorious drug dealer in Prohibition Era New York. As a member of Waxey Gordon's crime syndicate he was at odds with Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky. Like most other independent gangsters of that era, his end wasn't pretty ..read more
Vintage Crime Wave
3M ago
Thomas "Tanner" Smith was the leader of one of the Westside's Irish gangs in the years before World War I. Destined for the electric chair, Tanner did an about face and became a successful waterfront boss. His new-found success, however, couldn't save him from a gangland death ..read more
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