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  • Brooklyn's Most Wanted

  • The Top 100 Criminals, Crooks and Creeps from the County of the Kings
  • By: Craig McGuire
  • Narrated by: Gregg Rizzo
  • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Brooklyn's Most Wanted

By: Craig McGuire
Narrated by: Gregg Rizzo
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Brooklyn's Most Wanted parades an impressive perp walk of 100 of the borough's most notorious, ranking them meticulously from bad to worst. From crime bosses to career criminals to corrupt politicians, pedophile priests to Ponzi scammers - this is not your usual crime chronicle. You want labor racketeering, Ponzi scheming, hijacking, murder, loan sharking, arson, illegal gambling and money laundering? Fugetaboutit!

Take this guided tour through gangland that rips open the underbelly of Brooklyn - the broken land - to see what spills from the South Brooklyn Boys to the Soviet thugs of Brighton Beach's Little Odessa.

Want to know what Billy the Kid, John Wilkes Booth and the Son of Sam all have in common?

Brooklyn.

Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, Al Capone, Frankie Yale, Paul Vario, Roy DeMeo and so many more malicious malcontents and maniacs stalk this audiobook, as author Craig McGuire ranks a rogues' gallery of the best of the worst from Brooklyn's crime-ridden past and present.

This includes more than a century of screaming crime blotter headlines, spotlighting epic cases, like the Brooklyn Godmother, the Sex Killer of Brooklyn, the Nurse Girl Murder, the Long Island Railroad Massacre, the Thrill Kills Gang, and many more. From "Son of Sam" to "Son of Sal", "Little Lepke" to "Big Paulie", "The Butcher of Brooklyn", "The Vampire of Brooklyn", "The Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight", even "The Man Who Murdered Brooklyn Baseball" - they're all here.

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"Never has anyone put together a look into so many of Brooklyn's worst.... I highly recommend." (Thomas Dades, retired NYPD Detective and Best-selling Author of Friends of the Family)

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Obvious bad guys, and some surprising names

Craig McGuire ranks the 100 most notorious bad guys that have Brooklyn roots. There are the obvious lawbreakers - serial killer "The Son of Sam" David Berkowitz, "Scarface" Al Capone, Mickey Cohen, Bugsy Siegel, and gunslinger Billy "The Kid." John Wilkes Booth makes the list as his theatrical career brought him to New York City. Perhaps a surprising name on this nefarious list is businessman Walter O'Malley, best remembered for moving the beloved Dodgers baseball team to the west coast. I appreciate McGuire's scrupulous research outlining the petrifying crimes of Murder, Inc., corrupt politicians, abominable clergymen, etc. Find out which monstrous individual tops this list.

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They Fought The Law... But The Law Won

There are many things that one imagines when they think about Brooklyn, but criminals may not top that list. Craig McGuire walks us through the many different criminals that have called Brooklyn home, or have passed through the city on one pretense or another.

I enjoyed this book immensely. There was so much information presented that I feel that I am going to have to break this book down again, and read through it - marking different crimes and seeing where they might connect elsewhere.

Perfect for those who love true crime - this is one book you are NOT going to want to miss!!

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