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Retired Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins brings you the best in mob history with his unique perception of the mafia. Gary found a little-known story about a famous WW2 war hero/movie star who took on Fifi Bucceri of the Chicago Outfit.
\nAudie Murphy was the most decorated soldier in World War II. He also suffered from a gambling addiction after the war. In this fantastic story, we learn how he killed 50 Germans single-handedly to win the Congressional Medal of Honor and came home to a grateful public. Jimmy Cagney sponsored him in the Hollywood movie industry, where he became a film star in many action movies. The most famous was To Hell and Back. Murphy’s gambling addiction led him into the hands of two scam artists from Chicago. The rest is right out of an Audie Murphy movie.\xa0 Let us just say that he was not afraid of the Mob.\xa0
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\n[0:00]Well, hey guys, welcome back into the studio of Gangland Wire.
\nGary Jenkins here, retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit detective.
\nI’ll tell you a story. I found this story in a book titled Pay, Quit, or Die.
\nIt was written by a former Chicago police detective named Don Heroin.
\nAnd it’s a story that I never heard. I couldn’t find online.
\nIt was about a war hero that I I remember as a child, his name was Audie Murphy.
\n[0:32]And the title of the chapter was from War Hero to Hollywood Star to Mob Buster, in a way.
\nAnyhow, Audie Murphy. Let me tell you a little bit about Audie Murphy.
\n[0:46]Every kid, everybody my age, post-war baby boomer that knew about World War
\nII, Every boy probably has heard of Audie Murphy.
\nIt was a remarkable journey. He was born in 1925 down in Texas,
\nmade him just right to be a young man.
\n1941, whenever the war was really rocking and rolling, he fought in Europe.
\nHis early years were he grew up poor and
\nin hardship on the farm now you know he may be poor
\nto have have hard conditions but you know usually had enough to eat uh just
\nthat farm life is it’ll make you tough i’ll tell you i was raised on a farm
\nman a little tough of your butt up went in the army in world war ii like everybody
\nelse even a lot of the mob guys went in And Johnny Roselli,
\nI just read an article about him,
\nand he went in, and by the end of the war,