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John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Sam L. Amirante, Danny Broderick
• Narrated By Robin Bloodworth

“Sam, could you do me a favor?” Thus begins a story that has now become part of America's true-crime hall of fame. It is a gory, grotesque tale befitting a Stephen King novel. It is also a David and Goliath saga - the story of a young lawyer fresh from the public defender's office whose first client in private practice turns out to be the worst serial killer in our nation's history. This is a gripping true crime narrative that reenacts the gruesome killings and the famous trial that shocked a nation.

The Mafia at War: The Shocking True Story of America's Wartime Pact with Organized Crime

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Tim Newark
• Narrated By Michael Kramer

The Mafia at War reconstructs the relationships between the Mafia and Allied intelligence organizations.

Discover how Jewish gangsters clashed with Nazis on the streets of New York; how Mafiosi nearly issued contracts to kill top Nazis, including Hitler; how Mafia-backed bandits conducted a guerrilla war for Sicilian independence; and how Eisenhower was happy to arm the Mafia during the Allied invasion of Sicily.

The Tangled Web: The Life and Death of Richard Cain—Chicago Cop and Mafia Hitman

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Michael Cain
• Narrated By Clinton Wade

The Tangled Web tells the dramatic story of detective Richard Cain's criminal career as revealed by his half-brother, Michael. Cain led a double-life—one as a well-known cop who led raids that landed on the front pages, and the other as a "made man" in one of Chicago's most notorious mob families.

Gangster Squad: Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Paul Lieberman
• Narrated By Robert Petkoff
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Gangster Squad chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. In 1946, the LAPD launched the Gangster Squad with eight men who met covertly on street corners and slept with Tommy guns under their beds. But for two cops, all that mattered was nailing the strutting gangster Mickey Cohen. Sgt. Jack O’Mara was a square-jawed church usher, Sgt. Jerry Wooters a cynical maverick....

Betrayal in Dallas: LBJ, the Pearl Street Mafia, and the Murder of President Kennedy

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Mark North
• Narrated By Erik Davies

Here's what we now know: John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas by Mafia contract killers hired by Louisiana mob boss Carlos Marcello. Kennedy was killed in that city because it was the only place in the country where a crime of that magnitude could be committed without fear of punishment. Long-time local district attorney Henry Wade, an LBJ crony who would have sole jurisdiction over the prosecution of those responsible, had been corrupted by the local Civello crime family. Lyndon B. Johnson, while a U.S. senator during the 1950s, had accepted bribes from the same mobsters so that they could avoid deportation.