He is being accused of ordering the kidnapping and murder of 265 people, men and women. Killing was a hobby of his, it seemed. His favorite technique was putting a person in a barrel, filling it up with gasoline, and setting it on fire as his victim screamed and cried while being burned alive […]
George Hassett’s new book, Gangsters of Boston is a well written and researched volume that goes in-depth to all things criminal in Boston. The city’s underworld is explored and examined in this thorough and detail orientated book […]
To many in his hometown of Washington, D.C., during his 1980s reign as the city’s biggest cocaine and crack dealer, Rayful Edmond was public enemy number one. At the height of Dodge City’s brutal crack epidemic in 1987, this 22-year-old man was responsible for distributing 60 percent of the cocaine that flooded the city’s streets […]
This is the true story of a gangland hit man, and the parallel people and events that altered Detroit’s organized crime underworld. Drug wars, conspiracies, espionage, corruption and murder […]
We have covered a lot of the East Coast street legends who are a part of hip-hop’s lyrical lore due to numerous rappers name checking them in their rhymes, but the West Coast street stars have largely been ignored […]
LeRon Barton is the author of Straight Dope: A 360 Degree Look into American Drug Culture. This book looks into American drug culture and delves into why drugs are so prevalent in America […]
A new book on the legendary black Godfather Frank Matthews, written by crime expert and author Ron Chepesiuk, has been released on Strategic Media Books. Because we cover all things gangster, we got the exclusive on the book and the author […]
With the capture of FBI Top Ten Most Wanted fugitive Whitey Bulger in 2011 and now the ensuing trial, where Bulger will finally have to face the music and pay for his alleged crimes of running the Irish mob in Boston for two decades, committing multiple murders and remaining a fugitive for another decade […]
The streets of New York are vicious, as Tupac found out when he got robbed and shot in an event that ignited the East Coast/West Coast rap war which left two hip-hop legends dead. A lot for speculation has taken place over the years but from deep within the belly of the beast, an original Brooklyn gangster, Dexter Isaac, has written a book, From Friends to Enemies, which breaks down what happened, why it happened and who was behind it all […]
On June 6, Boston will hold organized crime’s, “Trial of the Century,” when infamous Mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger gets his day in court for allegedly murdering 19 people during his stay atop Boston’s gangland. After 16 years on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted list, Bulger was apprehended on June 22, 2011 in Santa Monica, California […]
