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Mafia
Journey into the underworld of American organized crime and the stories behind the rise and fall of the most notorious mobsters in history. From Charles “Lucky” Luciano and John Gotti, to Donnie Brasco, “Bugsy” Siegel and Dutch Schultz–Mafia explores the lives of our greatest gangsters and the cops...
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63 EpisodenIntroducing Killers, Cults and Queens
From Audioboom Studios, Nikki Druce and Cheryl Hole (RuPaul's Drag Race UK) will be traveling to the strangest corners of the world, stopping to learn...
From Deep Cover: Who Was Bob Cooley?
Deep Cover tells true stories of crime and corruption. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Halpern reveals dark underworlds most of us know nothing...
S4 Ep12: Crossing Paths
To the casual observer, organized crime is viewed as a singular entity, spearheaded by a powerful mafioso or crime family. In reality, it’s a multi-fa...
S4 Ep11: Raymond Patriarca (Part 2)
Following the retirement of Filippo Buccola in 1952, Raymond Patriarca was promoted to boss of the New England crime family. He became a dominant forc...
S4 Ep10: Raymond Patriarca (Part 1)
Prior to Prohibition, two separate Mafia families emerged in New England, one based in Boston, Massachusetts and the other based in Providence, Rhode...
S4 Ep9: Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti
1920's Chicago – the beginnings of the infamous Chicago Outfit. Frank Nitti, friend of notorious gangster Al Capone, went from struggling breadwinner...
S4 Ep8: Kirksey Nix
It’s the early 1970's in Biloxi, Mississippi. Kirksey Nix, one of the leading members of the Dixie Mafia, had been convicted of murder and began a lif...
S4 Ep7: Jimmy Fratianno (Part 2)
Jimmy Fratianno had gained notoriety within the LA crime family as someone who was trustworthy, and willing to do whatever it takes to get the job don...
S4 Ep6: Jimmy Fratianno (Part 1)
In 1946, a young man by the name of Jimmy Fratianno moved from Cleveland, Ohio to Los Angeles, California. Fratianno had spent most of his life immers...
Mobbed Up: The Fight For Las Vegas, Season 2
From casino floors to count rooms to courtrooms, and from Washington, D.C., to Detroit to the neon glow of the Las Vegas Strip, Las Vegas Review-Journ...
S4 Ep5: Silvestro “Silver Dollar Sam” Carollo
During the 1920s, The Big Easy was home to some of the most notorious members of the New Orleans Underworld, including Silvestro “Silver Dollar Sam” C...
S4 Ep4: James "Whitey" Bulger (Part 2)
In the mid-1990s, renowned Irish mobster Whitey Bulger was in hiding from local Massachusetts police, the FBI, and US Marshals. In this episode, we'll...
S4 Ep3: James "Whitey" Bulger (Part 1)
In the mid-90s, South Boston based Irish mobster, James "Whitey" Bulger would go on the run after being tipped off about an indictment coming his way....
S4 Ep2: Stephanie St. Clair (Part 2)
Stephanie St. Clair had become one of the most successful policy bankers in 1920’s New York City. She made a fortune running a Harlem based numbers ra...
S4 Ep1: Stephanie St. Clair (Part 1)
In the 1920's, Stephanie St. Clair was known as "The Queen of the Policy Racket." She made a fortune running her Harlem numbers racket, gaining notori...
S4: Season 4 Trailer
Mafia returns Wednesday, May 12th! This Audioboom Original delves into the criminal underworld, exploring the lives and careers of America’s most infa...
Introducing: Truth vs Hollywood
Introducing the newest Audioboom original podcast, Truth vs Hollywood. Join Film lovers David Chen and Joanna Robinson as they do a deep dive into wel...
Introducing: Mobbed Up
Mobbed Up chronicles the rise and fall of organized crime in Las Vegas through the eyes of those who lived it: ex-mobsters, law enforcement officials,...
S3 Ep14: Bonus 06: The First Casino
In Upstate New York, 200 miles from the bustling gang-run city, something new was born. As the rich headed upstate for summer vacations, a gangster ha...
S3 Ep13: Bonus 05: Inside the Safes
Gangsters Walter Scheib and Frank Hoffman owned one of the most successful speakeasies during the prohibition. But Hoffman disappeared in the 1940s, l...
S3 Ep12: Joe Colombo (Part 2)
Colombo was flooded with cash from his numerous rackets and enjoying the good life. Distress grew in the highest circles of the Mafia that law enforce...
S3 Ep11: Joe Colombo (Part 1)
Joseph Colombo was a mid-ranking Mafioso in one of New York’s Five Families. But when Colombo decided to break one of the mob’s most important rules,...
S3 Ep10: Joe Valachi (Part 2)
Valachi took the stand and revealed some of the strangest Cosa Nostra secrets - but the Mafia wouldn't stand idly by while their rules were broken. An...
S3 Ep9: Joe Valachi (Part 1)
Joe Valachi had been in the Mafia for years, but hadn't risen much in the ranks. But when he was facing a life sentence, there was one group of people...
S3 Ep8: Don Vito and the Prime Minister (Part 2)
While Costello made his mafia money through gambling, Vito Genovese found something more lucrative: drugs. The brash and homicidal Don Vito was put in...
S3 Ep7: Don Vito and the Prime Minister (Part 1)
Vito Genovese had been biding his time for 4 years to take over the Luciano crime family. But when an old crime came back for him, the position was ta...
S3 Ep6: Arnold Rothstein (Part 2)
After gaining fortune and notoriety, Rothstein moved from bootlegging to drug smuggling to labor racketeering. With his connections and friendly demea...
S3 Ep5: Arnold Rothstein (Part 1)
Before the Mafia existed, at the turn of the century, there was Arnold Rothstein, known as The Brain. Rothstein would teach an entire generation of ga...
S3 Ep4: Roy DeMeo (Part 2)
Three investigators try to put together the murder of Andrei Katz with the car thievery that the DeMeo crew has been doing for years without notice. A...
Introducing: What Makes a Killer
Listen to new episodes of What Makes a Killer for a look into the life and crimes of the world’s most infamous serial killers. Featuring interviews wi...
S3 Ep3: Roy DeMeo (Part 1)
From car thief to the operator of the Murder Machine, Roy DeMeo and his crew were possibly responsible for more than 200 murders in the 1970s. DeMeo m...
S3 Ep2: Al Capone (Part 2)
With his rivals wiped out, Capone had taken over the prohibition scene in Chicago. His love of the spotlight would soon get him in trouble with the la...
S3 Ep1: Al Capone (Part 1)
At the height of Prohibition, Al Capone made a killing selling illegal alcohol and by making a spectacle of the gangster lifestyle. But with the booze...
S3: Season 3 Trailer
Mafia is coming back October 16th, taking you inside the American mob from interviews with experts, law enforcement, and educators. Season 3 brings st...
S2 Ep16: Bonus 04 - Rats
One of the unwritten rules of the Mafia was Omerta, the code of silence. No one was allowed to talk about the existence of the Mafia, reveal how it wo...
S2 Ep15: Bonus 03: The Establishment
There is a long list of people and organizations who were in one way or another in the Mafia’s pockets. In this bonus episode, we’ll look at the conne...
S2 Ep14: Bonus 02: The Crackdown
For years, the mob was able to rule New York, Chicago, and many other cities, free to run gambling rackets, flood the street with drugs, and corrupt o...
S2 Ep13: Bonus 01: The Jewish Connection
Organized crime and street gangs were originally strongly divided along ethnic lines, but into the 1930s, those lines began to blur, especially betwee...
S2 Ep12: Joe Massino (Part 2)
In the 1980s and 1990s, four of the bosses of the five families had been taken down by the FBI. But one family, the Bonnanos, remained untouched. But...
S2 Ep11: Joe Massino (Part 1)
Joseph Massino was the legendary godfather of the Bonnano crime family, known as ‘The Last Don’ of a generation. And he absolutely crushed anyone who...