On this week’s episode of The Vice Squad Podcast, James Mancini, aka “Big Jimmy” Munsene was the first notoriouscrime boss of Ohio’s Trumbull County. Munsene controlled gambling in the county and had clubs as far away as...
This week on The Vice Squad Podcast, 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...
The Vice Squad Podcast Episode 2: The Torso Murders. From Cleveland to Youngstown to Pittsburgh, a serial killerwreaked havoc along the railyards from the 1920s to the 1940s. Sometimes known as “The Mad Butcher,” this murdererchopped up...
The debut episode of The Vice Squad Podcast. Episode 1: Mahoning Valley Mob. In our first episode, we’re giving you acondensed history of organized crime in the Mahoning Valley. Future episodes will air bi-weekly, and will dive deeperinto...