White Boy Rick
It’s hard to summarize the story of Richard “Rick” Wershe, Jr., also known as “White Boy Rick”, because there is so much to tell. He has spent his entire adult life behind bars, yet he’s …
Category: Street Lit & True Crime
Gorilla Convict has been interviewing and writing about street lit authors from the jump. Check out these exclusive interviews with your favortie urban fiction authors and true crime writers who pen stories on American gangsters.
Transitions Crime Series- Meet Hanibal Chancellor
Creator, writer, director, producer- these are only a few words to describe Hanibal Chancellor and all that he brings to the world of entertainment. The CEO of Overdose Entertainment has been doing it for over …
The Saga of Michael Brown and the Ferguson Protests
I’ve kept a pretty close eye on Ferguson from here in St. Louis these past two months. After Michael Brown’s shooting, I expected the worst, especially since I was living in a halfway house in …
Finally Home After 21 Years
About six weeks ago on July 31, 2014 I was released from FCC Forrest City in Arkansas. It was my first taste of freedom in 21 years. I got locked up when I was 22, …
Lucky Luciano: Mysterious Tales of a Gangland Legend
Charles “Lucky” Luciano is one of the most researched, discussed and dissected American mobsters of all time. His name has become synonymous with New York City’s high drama gangland days of prohibition bootlegging, the formation …
Buccaneer: The Provocative Odyssey of Jack Reed- Adventurer, Drug Smuggler and Pilot Extraordinaire
I’m no God damn rat! I’m a player. I’m a pirate. I’m a hedonist; and one hell of good smuggler, but I’m no rat! This is the true story of the events of my life. …
World’s Most Wanted Cartel Boss “El Chapo” Guzman Caught
By David Amoruso (http://gangstersinc.ning.com Gangsters Inc.) Sinaloa drug cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been captured by U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials. He had been on the run since 2001 when he escaped …
HOFFA AMBUSHED
The way Sheeran saw it, the Mob only had two choices: murder Hoffa or put him in the plot. By doing that, they got a chance to make sure they could trust him—it was the only way […]
From the Delta to the D – the Real New Jack City
The rags-to-riches tale of the Chambers brothers, seven siblings who migrated to the Motor City from less than meager beginnings in the Deep South, plays out like a Hollywood movie script. The first member of the Chambers family set foot in Detroit in the early 1970s, and they would keep coming until the middle of the next decade […]
DEATH STRUGGLE
Escobar on morgue slab (3)In July 1993, Drug lord Pablo Escobar sneaked away into the night, even though 500 soldiers surrounded the prison. He first fled to a ranch, La Romelia, and waited in a hiding place until the initial search patrols left the area and the commotion surrounding his escape subsided […]