All posts tagged: Las Vegas

Crime Wire: Who Killed Chrissy?

You can hear Crime Wire Investigates Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Eastern. Please visit our Crime Wire Website for more discussion in the Forum section. Together we can make a difference. To LISTEN LIVE or to the Podcast: CLICK HERE Guest, Beverly Simcic, is the author of the new book Who Killed Chrissy? Who Killed Chrissy? is the story of two young women from Pittsburgh—Beverly Simcic and Christine Casilio—who went to Las Vegas in June of 1982 for a vacation and to check out employment opportunities. Just weeks later, on June 25, Christine’s body was found decomposing in the bathroom of her small studio apartment. The homicide remains unsolved to this day. Beverly was interviewed by Las Vegas Metro detectives at the time. But in the over 30 years since, she hasn’t shared her knowledge of events surrounding her friend’s death with the public until now. A miracle, a vision, a premonition, and an unsolved death in Las Vegas, have hung in my memory like a broken antique for the last twenty-four years of my life. I’ve had that long to …

MOB TALK with Denny Griffin

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Wednesday, November 16 at 9pm ETListen LIVE: http://blogtalkradio.com/crimewire Join famous Las Vegas True Crime and Mob Author, Denny Griffin, along with his special guests, discussing all things MOB! The popular 1995 movie Casino was a fictionalized account of the Las Vegas era of Chicago Outfit enforcer Tony Spilotro and Outfit associate Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal. One of the scenarios addressed in the film is the skimming of money from the casinos and into the pockets of several Midwest crime bosses. The skim was real, not a creation of Hollywood. On tonight’s show co-hosts Andrew DiDonato and Denny Griffin will talk with retired FBI agent Lynn Ferrin. Lynn was the Las Vegas case agent for the skim investigations called Operation Strawman. Lynn will tell us the real story about how the skim was run, by whom, and how the feds brought it down. He’ll also comment on the movie and how law enforcement was portrayed in the film. If you’re a Mob buff, a Las Vegas or Casino fan, you won’t want to miss this show. http://www.imaginepublicity.com …

MOB TALK RADIO with Dennis Griffin Welcomes Ex-Mobster, Frank Cullotta

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MOB TALK on Crime Wire Radio On Wednesday, October 12, 9pm ET, co-hosts Andrew DiDonato and Denny Griffin will welcome former Chicago and Las Vegas mobster Frank Cullotta to MOB TALK on Crime Wire Radio. Listen LIVE….click here Frank Cullotta was born in Chicago in 1938. He began his decades-long criminal career as a teenager, graduating from petty theft to burglary, armed robbery, arson and murder. While growing up he met another young tough on the streets of the Windy City: Tony Spilotro. The two boys became friends and criminal allies. As they grew older Frank preferred to operate independent of the Mob. But Tony went on to become a made man and feared enforcer of the Chicago Outfit. And in 1971 the Outfit bosses sent him to Las Vegas to keep an eye on their casino interests. Returning to Chicago after being released from prison in 1974, Frank was invited to join Tony in Sin City. It was an offer he initially declined. But by 1979 Frank was under intense pressure from law enforcement in Chicago and agreed to join Tony in Vegas. His role was to watch Tony’s back and apply muscle as …

“Vegas Rag Doll,” Wendy Mazaros Returns to True Crime Uncensored

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July 2nd — Return of VEGAS RAG DOLL Wendy Mazaros! 2pm PT/5pm ET/10pm UK time Listen Live Las Vegas, Binions, the Mob, Murder and Mayhem, Corruption and Greed, all words that can be added to the description of Wendy Mazaros, but…..there’s so much more! A rare Nevada native, Wendy Mazaros spent her early years “playing out in the desert with my brothers, chasing lizards, catching snakes, and digging caves”. At fifteen, she fell into the arms of Ted Binion, heir-apparent of the Binion’s Horseshoe Club family. Binion passed her off to Tom Hanley; a man she would marry, and later learn was a hitman for the mob. Today, Wendy makes her home in the Las Vegas suburbs, and enjoys a wide circle of family and friends. In addition to tracing Wendy Hanley’s harrowing life story, Vegas Rag Doll paints a vivid portrait of the final years of organized crime in Las Vegas, before the corporations took control. In a fascinating era when legitimate facades disguised dark secrets, Wendy Hanley had a front-row seat — and a knack …

LIVE From Las Vegas! Big Mob Sitdown! On the Air March 19

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Join the gang for an old fashioned Mob sit-down! Saturday, March 19, from 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. Come To hear the real stories of the Mob in Vegas! Hear first hand how the Chicago out fit and New York Mob landed in Las Vegas! Las Vegas, Nevada……Vegas has always been a watering hole for mobsters from the days when Bugsy Seigel built the Flamingo and others followed the yellow brick road paved in gold into the Nevada desert. The history of Las Vegas, and it’s fortunes, have been tied to the mob and mob money. A gathering place for those from the Chicago Outfit and the New York Mob, Las Vegas still holds mob glitz in its hands. The history of the mob in Las Vegas is the subject of several books and movies, holding the attention of the public, most who have never been near a mobster. Now is your chance to meet face to face with former members of the mob, and those who put them behind bars on Saturday, March 19. …