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The Crime Wire Team, Denny Griffin, retired investigator and author, Susan Murphy-Milano, violence expert and author, Vito Colucci Jr., private investigator and author, and Thomas Shamshak, private investigator and CWIB Bureau Chief, invite you to join them each week as they discuss unsolved homicide, suspicious death and missing person cases. They, along with Crime Wire Consultants Peter Hyatt, Donna Pendergast, Anne Bremner, Gene Cervantes, Patricia Caristo, Sheryl McCollum and Monica Caison, shine the light on cases in which justice has been delayed or denied.

Susan Murphy Milano welcomes two well known authors Tricia McNight author of "My Justice" and Lynn C. Tolson Beyond The Tears: A True Survivors Story who have published their stories of survival.   Join us if you are or know someone who is a victim of intimate partner violence and stalking.

Join co- hosts Denny Griffin and Andrew DiDonato as they and their guests take listeners beyond the newspaper headlines and into the real world of organized crime. Tonight's guest is former Chicago and Las Vegas mobster Frank Cullotta.

 

Frank Cullotta was born in Chicago, where he began his decades-long criminal career. As a teenager, he met another young tough on the streets: 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.

 

In 1974 Frank was invited to join Tony in Sin City. He eventually joined Tony in Vegas. His role was to watch Tony’s back and apply muscle as necessary. He formed a crew of burglars, robbers, and killers that became known as the Hole in the Wall Gang.  

 

However, Frank and Tony had a falling out in 1982; and at Tony’s request the Chicago bosses approved a contract to kill Frank. Facing either life in prison for his myriad crimes or death at the hands of Outfit hit men, Frank rolled and became a government witness. His subsequent testimony resulted in the convictions of several of his former associates. 

 

In 1995 Frank was contacted by screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi regarding the Martin Scorsese film Casino.  He was hired as a technical consultant to the movie. Frank Vincent played “Frankie,” a character based on Cullotta.

 

In 2007 Frank wrote his biography titled CULLOTTA – The Life of a Chicago Criminal, Las Vegas Mobster, and Government Witness.

The Crime Wire Team, Denny Griffin, retired investigator and author, Susan Murphy-Milano, violence expert and author, Vito Colucci Jr., private investigator and author, and Thomas Shamshak, private investigator and CWIB Bureau Chief, invite you to join them each week as they discuss unsolved homicide, suspicious death and missing person cases. They, along with Crime Wire Consultants Peter Hyatt, Donna Pendergast, Anne Bremner, Gene Cervantes, Patricia Caristo, Sheryl McCollum and Monica Caison, shine the light on cases in which justice has been delayed or denied.

The Crime Wire Team, Denny Griffin, retired investigator and author, Susan Murphy-Milano, violence expert and author, Vito Colucci Jr., private investigator and author, and Thomas Shamshak, private investigator and CWIB Bureau Chief, invite you to join them each week as they discuss unsolved homicide, suspicious death and missing person cases. They, along with Crime Wire Consultants Peter Hyatt, Donna Pendergast, Anne Bremner, Gene Cervantes, Patricia Caristo, Sheryl McCollum and Monica Caison, shine the light on cases in which justice has been delayed or denied.

We are pleased to announce that Mob Talk will debut on Crime WireRadio on September 21 at 9 p.m. Eastern. Co-hosts Andrew DiDonato and Denny Griffin will have former FBI undercover agent Jack Garcia as their guest.

Joaquin "Jack" Garcia is considered by many of his peers and leading FBI experts, to have been the most successful undercover agent in the history of the Bureau.

         

In his 26 years of service with the FBI, and as an undercover agent in over 100 major operations, Jack is best known for his role as "Jack Falcone," a self-described Sicilian jewel thief and drug dealer from Miami, Florida, who infiltrated New York’s Gambino crime family. After nearly three years of investigation, the case resulted in the arrest and conviction of 39 mobsters, including the top members of the Gambinos. Jack played his undercover role so convincingly that he was even proposed for membership into La Cosa Nostra.

Jack's other successful undercover investigations included corrupt politicians in Atlantic City, New Jersey; and corrupt police officers in the Hollywood, Florida, Broward County, Florida, Boston Police Department, and the San Juan, Puerto Rico Police Department. He also worked undercover in major drug cases, including dealers and leaders of the Colombian and Mexican drug cartels.

Jack’s book, Making Jack Falcone, was a New York Times bestseller.

Listeners can interact with the hosts and guest through the show’s chat room or by telephone call in.

Mob Talk is presented by BEAR Media Consultants, LLC

On January 24, 2011, Amy Sue Henslee and Tonya Howrath went missing from Hartford, MI.  A massive search took place under the direction of the www.missingyoufoundation.org.  Searcher Jamie Jones dilligence in the case recovered the remains of the women in a shallow grave.  On tonight's show James Henslee and Jamie Jones will discuss the events of the case,  that lead to an arrest and conviction of Junior Bebee sentenced on September 13, 2011 to 2 life consecutive terms.

The Crime Wire Team, Denny Griffin, retired investigator and author, Susan Murphy-Milano, violence expert and author, Vito Colucci Jr., private investigator and author, and Thomas Shamshak, private investigator and CWIB Bureau Chief, invite you to join them each week as they discuss unsolved homicide, suspicious death and missing person cases. They, along with Crime Wire Consultants Peter Hyatt, Donna Pendergast, Anne Bremner, Gene Cervantes, Patricia Caristo, Sheryl McCollum and Monica Caison, shine the light on cases in which justice has been delayed or denied.

The Danielle Hill Alvarado case with Citizens Against Homicide and Crime Wire Consultant Gene Cerventies. The Crime Wire Team, Denny Griffin, retired investigator and author, Susan Murphy-Milano, violence expert and author, Vito Colucci Jr., private investigator and author, and Thomas Shamshak, private investigator and CWIB Bureau Chief, invite you to join them each week as they discuss unsolved homicide, suspicious death and missing person cases. They, along with Crime Wire Consultants Peter Hyatt, Donna Pendergast, Anne Bremner, Gene Cervantes, Patricia Caristo, Sheryl McCollum and Monica Caison, shine the light on cases in which justice has been delayed or denied.

The Victor Bach case and the Joseph Martinez case. The Crime Wire Team, Denny Griffin, retired investigator and author, Susan Murphy-Milano, violence expert and author, Vito Colucci Jr., private investigator and author, and Thomas Shamshak, private investigator and CWIB Bureau Chief, invite you to join them each week as they discuss unsolved homicide, suspicious death and missing person cases. They, along with Crime Wire Consultants Peter Hyatt, Donna Pendergast, Anne Bremner, Gene Cervantes, Patricia Caristo, Sheryl McCollum and Monica Caison, shine the light on cases in which justice has been delayed or denied.

If you were a child growing up in America in the 1980s, there is a good chance you spent some of your idle time watching the Smurfs on television. And if you were a parent or grandparent in that era, you may have been thankful that the adorable little characters occupied the kids for a while so you could take care of other duties or just relax.

But was there a hidden agenda behind the Smurfs? Were the kids actually being brainwashed while the adults were sipping coffee, doing the laundry or washing the car?

We'll ask that question of a person with intimate knowledge of what the Smurfs were really all about. Rena Winters is the author of Smurfs: The Inside Story Of The Little Blue Characters. She was a key executive at the company that created the Smurfs for TV and movies.

Rena will tell us whether the Smurfs were providing innocent entertainment, or teaching America's children the benefits of communism.