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Kansas City Underworld Deep Dive with Expert Gary Jenkins

·1 hr 10 min·1 clip
Eddie Cox had a fake DEA badge and a Crown Vic—he'd pull over drug dealers, they'd think it was the feds, then he'd rob them.
Gary Jenkins, ex-mob buster and Kansas City historian, discusses the recently-released Eddie Cox (89), a legendary criminal figure whose story bridges Black and Italian organized crime networks. Cox transformed from heroin ring operator to paralegal, using jailhouse legal expertise to help others gain freedom.

As heard by us

A Kansas City mob story built from tavern surveillance, grand jury pressure, and the records that tied it together.

The episode tracks Kansas City as a quieter but still potent organized crime scene, where the same family names from the 60s and 70s keep showing up in a lower-profile version of the old power structure.

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Press play if you want Kansas City mob history with the screws turned down.

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