Audie Murphy and the Mob

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. Audie 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.  Let us just say that he was not afraid of the Mob.  Support the Podcast Subscribe to get new gangster stories every week. Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup, click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here.  To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes click here. Please give me a review and help others find the podcast. Donate to the podcast. Click here! Transcript Transcript [0:00]Well, hey guys, welcome back into the studio of Gangland Wire. Gary Jenkins here, retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit detective. I’ll tell you a story. I found this story in a book titled Pay, Quit, or Die. It was written by a former Chicago police detective named Don Heroin. And it’s a story that I never heard. I couldn’t find online. It was about a war hero that I I remember as a child, his name was Audie Murphy. [0:32]And the title of the chapter was from War Hero to Hollywood Star to Mob Buster, in a way. Anyhow, Audie Murphy. Let me tell you a little bit about Audie Murphy. [0:46]Every kid, everybody my age, post-war baby boomer that knew about World War II, Every boy probably has heard of Audie Murphy. It was a remarkable journey. He was born in 1925 down in Texas, made him just right to be a young man. 1941, whenever the war was really rocking and rolling, he fought in Europe. His early years were he grew up poor and in hardship on the farm now you know he may be poor to have have hard conditions but you know usually had enough to eat uh just that farm life is it’ll make you tough i’ll tell you i was raised on a farm man a little tough of your butt up went in the army in world war ii like everybody else even a lot of the mob guys went in And Johnny Roselli, I just read an article about him, and he went in, and by the end of the war,