1 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:08,200 Speaker 1: From my Heart Media. This is Missing in Alaska, the 2 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:11,640 Speaker 1: story of two congressmen who vanished in nineteen two and 3 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,160 Speaker 1: my quest to figure out what happened to them. I'm 4 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:29,159 Speaker 1: your host, John Wallzac, March fourth, ninet, Tucson, Arizona. The 5 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 1: sun is setting. The temperature sinks below sixty. There's a 6 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:36,879 Speaker 1: light breeze. It's early in the evening. At the El 7 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 1: Dorado Lodge, a luxurious desert resort. A gorgeous tree line 8 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 1: road leads up to a complex of old stone clad buildings. 9 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 1: Tranquil mountains lurk in the distance. Sitting at a bar 10 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 1: is Tom Davis, a detective with the Arizona Department of 11 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: Public Safety. He's joined by a supervisor and a reporter. 12 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 1: They're all undercover. And that's say you shaped bar, and 13 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:08,199 Speaker 1: on one side is the public side. On the other 14 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:12,479 Speaker 1: side is a room and it's just you know, it's 15 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: just an alcove. Well, if you set on the public side, 16 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:18,759 Speaker 1: you could see what was going on in the alcove. 17 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: Lo and behold, here comes this party and it's Jerry 18 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 1: and his wife and his one of the people that 19 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: he had gone to Anchorage with. And you know it 20 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: for me being a brand new guy. This was fascinating. 21 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: Jerry is Jerome Jerry Max Paisley, a thirty three year 22 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 1: old murderer and bomber with close ties to two prominent 23 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: mafia families. So we sat there and we just kept 24 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 1: making notes and watching all the activities and the pictures 25 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: being taken, and boom, it's noted that Jerry married Peggy. 26 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 1: Peggy is Peggy begat the widow of Congressman Nick beget 27 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: at the time of the wedding. Did you know who 28 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 1: Peggy was? I probably did, but I probably didn't put 29 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: any significance to it. Were you aware at the time 30 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:18,639 Speaker 1: of the wedding that Peggy was the widow of a 31 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 1: missing congressman? Uh? Yeah, but it didn't take it seriously. 32 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 1: Why because it was it was an accident plane crack 33 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 1: pause for a minute. Let this sink. In. Sixteen months 34 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: and sixteen days after her husband, a U S congressman, 35 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: disappeared in Alaska, Peggy Begett married Jerry Paisley, a mobster, 36 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 1: at a wedding in Arizona. It sounds sensational, It is sensational, 37 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: but I want to be clear it's true. It's not 38 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 1: some baseless conspiracy. It did happen. I have a copy 39 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 1: of the marriage license and photos of the reception. In fact, 40 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 1: I have the original photos. Tom Davis gave them to me. 41 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: The pictures I gave you with Jerry. That's the last 42 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 1: I have unless I resurrect. Uh. Those are the originals 43 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 1: I took and sent to you. But you can look 44 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 1: at the paper and tell that that came out of 45 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,919 Speaker 1: the book, out of the Bible. This is from your bible. Yep. 46 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:33,119 Speaker 1: That's the last existing piece. Davis, who had to distinguished 47 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 1: thirty six year career in law enforcement, worked on a 48 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 1: small team that battled organized climb in Arizona. He had 49 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 1: a secret book, a so called bible, which listed about 50 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: a hundred local mobsters and their associates. In the bible 51 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 1: was Jerry Paisley. Man Paisley, Where to start? He's so 52 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 1: important to this story. I need to tell you about him, 53 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 1: his history, his personality, his shocking laims. But I don't 54 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 1: want to glorify him. He was a murderer and a bomber, 55 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: an abusive, violent man. He doesn't deserve glory. Paisley was 56 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:17,600 Speaker 1: born in Detroit in nineteen forty one. He grew up 57 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: in a bad neighborhood. As a teen, he enlisted in 58 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: the Navy. I don't know much about his early years, 59 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 1: just bits and pieces I picked up along the way. 60 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 1: But I can share with you an incident that occurred 61 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 1: when he was nineteen, a violent attack that illustrates the rough, 62 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:37,159 Speaker 1: jagged nature of his life from birth to death. On 63 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 1: May three, nineteen sixty, Paisley was hitchhiking in California when 64 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 1: four men accosted him using either a razor or a 65 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: sharp piece of glass. Paisley wasn't sure which. They carved 66 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: a four inch cross and two letters ZS into his arm. Thankfully, 67 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 1: the wounds were superficial he didn't need stitches. Two years later, 68 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:03,720 Speaker 1: after the Navy discharged him, Paisley returned to Detroit. That's 69 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 1: where he started working for the lick of Oli Family, 70 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: an organized crime syndicate led by Pete Horseface lika Oli Senior. 71 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: That's also where he befriended pete seniors sons, especially Pete Jr. 72 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: In fact, the two men got close enough that in 73 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four, Pete Locooli Jr. Attended Paisley's wedding to 74 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 1: Peggy Begat Pete Jr. And his wife Cathy even traveled 75 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: with Peggy and Paisley on their honeymoon in Mexico. The 76 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:31,799 Speaker 1: lick of OLiS were a mid tier mob family, nothing 77 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 1: special mid century. They moved from Detroit to Tucson. Paisley 78 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:40,679 Speaker 1: went with them. Soon thereafter, another much more famous mafia 79 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: family also moved to Tucson, The Bananas. Remember Vito cor Leoni. 80 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:50,040 Speaker 1: Marlon Brando's character from the Godfather. Cor Leoni was based 81 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 1: in part on famed mafia don Joe Bonano Senior. During 82 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 1: the sixties in Tucson, Paisley befriended Banano's sons Bill and 83 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 1: Joe Jr. He was captivated by the family's flashy infamy 84 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 1: and gritty glamour ine. He even made a brief cameo 85 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: and honor thy father. A best seller on the Bananas 86 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:14,279 Speaker 1: written by legendary author Gay Talise. I asked Talise, who's 87 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:17,599 Speaker 1: eight eight, if he remembers Paisley. He said he doesn't. 88 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 1: That was a long time ago. The Bananas were not 89 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 1: only celebrities in Tucson, they were well known throughout the nation. 90 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:31,799 Speaker 1: Joe Sr. Was quite literally the Big Cheese, a nickname 91 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:35,599 Speaker 1: he got by sinking his teeth into the dairy industry. Laugh, 92 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: go ahead, but there was a lot of money to 93 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: be made in the cheese trade, counterfeit, mazzarella, money laundering, 94 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: stuff like that. Bonano was a big deal, one of 95 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 1: the most important mafioso's in American history, the patriarch of 96 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:53,360 Speaker 1: one of the so called Five families which dominated organized 97 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:56,720 Speaker 1: crime in New York City during the early twentieth century. 98 00:06:56,839 --> 00:06:59,839 Speaker 1: Bonano saw himself as a gentleman. He liked to say 99 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:04,799 Speaker 1: that he lived by old school values. Booze but not narcotics. Murder, sure, 100 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 1: but only if you deserved it. But he distorted reality. 101 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: The Banano family was brutal. They were violent gangsters. They 102 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 1: maimed and murdered, and bombed and extorted and kidnapped and 103 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 1: committed fraud. Later, they tried to rehabilitate their image, But 104 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 1: Joe Banano didn't become Joe Banano by being a polite 105 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: man who just dabbled in bootlegging. For three decades from 106 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: the nineteen thirties to nineteen sixties, Banano held an iron 107 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: grip on his family. His stranglehold began to unravel in 108 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: the mid sixties when he got greedy and tried to 109 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 1: assassinate rival mob bosses. The plot failed, igniting a bloody 110 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 1: mob war called the Banana War, or, as the press 111 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 1: sarcastically dubbed it, the Banana Split. See. One of Banano's nicknames, 112 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: which he absolutely hated, was Joe Bananas, hence the name 113 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 1: of his signature war. At one point during the war, 114 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 1: Banana was kidnapped and for while he disappeared. It's thought, though, 115 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 1: that he staged the kidnapping in order to avoid testifying 116 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: before a grand jury. When he eventually resurfaced, he decided 117 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 1: to make a strategic retreat to Tucson, where he quote retired. 118 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: But that was bullshit. He was diminished, but not dead, 119 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 1: and he certainly wasn't retired. I know, I'm throwing a 120 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 1: million names at you, so let's recap. We have a 121 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: Jerry Paisley, who married Peggy Beget, the widow of Congressman 122 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: Nick Beget, in nineteen four b The Lick of OLiS, 123 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 1: a mid tier mob family from Paisley's hometown of Detroit 124 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 1: who relocated to Tucson and for whom Paisley worked. And 125 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:45,960 Speaker 1: see the Bananas, a famous mob family from New York 126 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:49,960 Speaker 1: who also relocated to Tucson and for whom Paisley also worked, 127 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 1: Jerry Paisley, the Lick of Olies, the bananas, They're all 128 00:08:54,800 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 1: tied together. But why Tucson. It seems random, right, an 129 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 1: odd place for the mob to me. Not really, It's sunny, 130 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: it's pretty removed from the violence of Chicago and New York. 131 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: In Detroit, it makes sense, and Arizona had lacks laws 132 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: which allowed the mob to easily launder money. Arizona was 133 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 1: Switzerland in the United States. Arizona had a blind trust 134 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:24,959 Speaker 1: system in his banking system that allows people to hide 135 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 1: moneys here just as effectively as they could in Switzerland. 136 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 1: And the blind trust accounts that could be set up 137 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 1: with laundered money the bank accounts themsels could also own 138 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 1: real estate. And when I first began working over here 139 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 1: in nearly seventies, Peccati was owned by number and nobody 140 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 1: knew who owned anything. It was all through blind trust 141 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: accounts at a bank. That's Don Devereaux a seasoned investigative 142 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:54,080 Speaker 1: reporter in Arizona who covered organized crime for decades. He's 143 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:57,079 Speaker 1: best known for his never ending investigation into the nineteen 144 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 1: seventy six assassination of reporter Don Bowles, who was killed 145 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 1: in Phoenix by a car bomb. Something will cover later. 146 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,719 Speaker 1: Devereaux also dug into both the Banano and Locavoli families. 147 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:10,959 Speaker 1: With two major mob families in Tucson, you'd figure there 148 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 1: would be some bitter rivalry, so many angry egos crammed 149 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,199 Speaker 1: into a small desert city, but that wasn't the case. 150 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 1: We're looking Holy moved out here from Detroit, and he 151 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 1: was a friend of Joe's and and and writed The 152 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:27,560 Speaker 1: Look of Religion. Lots of rolling people from around the 153 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: country to move to Tucson and the Phoenix to retire. 154 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 1: Look at really largely came to the Tucson area to retire. 155 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:37,559 Speaker 1: But Ana was still active when he was at me too, 156 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 1: so but look a Holy largely had left Detroit behind. 157 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 1: And there was a retired bob guy living comfortably in Tucson, 158 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 1: um on a place called the Grace Ranches they called 159 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:54,079 Speaker 1: with his family. Uh and close friends and close enough 160 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: they know they shared the same accountant um they were. 161 00:10:57,679 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 1: You know, there were secrets between those guys. They were 162 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: both friends and not competitors, and you know, happily you know, 163 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: seeing each other as good friends. Yeah, even though the 164 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 1: Bananas and Look of OLiS maintained peace between their respective families, 165 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,120 Speaker 1: their presidence was detrimental to Tucson as a whole. In 166 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 1: the late sixties, the city became a hot spot for 167 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:22,960 Speaker 1: mob violence, most notably a series of high profile bombings. 168 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: Many of these bombings were tied to extortion attempts, insurance scams, 169 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 1: and vigilante payback. The motivation behind some, though, was more complicated. 170 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 1: In July, the homes of both Joe Banano Senior and 171 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 1: Pete Lacavoli Senior were bombed. There was a war started 172 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:44,559 Speaker 1: between Banana and Lukavoli by a rogue FDIH named David Hale. 173 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 1: Back in the day, Hale began planning bombs on most 174 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:51,440 Speaker 1: of Banana and the look of Holy people as if 175 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 1: they were fighting back and forth between themselves, trying to 176 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: start some sort of an internet scene mob war between 177 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 1: Lukaolian and It obviously didn't work, and David Hale got 178 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 1: exposed as having you know, done this himself as an 179 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 1: FBI agent. David Hale denied that he was behind the bombings. 180 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 1: Hale was never convicted of any crime tied to the bombings. 181 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 1: He didn't respond to interview requests in night, someone also 182 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:25,080 Speaker 1: bombed the house of a prominent judge named Evo Diconcini. 183 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: DeConcini had been friends with Joe Banano, but later, when 184 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:30,840 Speaker 1: his son Dennis was elected to the U. S. Senate, 185 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 1: he distanced himself from the mob boss. I just said 186 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: someone bombed Judge Deconcini's home. But guess who that someone was. 187 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:44,960 Speaker 1: Jerry Paisley, the same Jerry Paisley who only six years 188 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 1: later would marry Peggy Baggage. Several sources told me Paisley 189 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 1: was behind the DeConcini bombing. Paisley was something of a fixer, 190 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:57,320 Speaker 1: they said, a wanna be gangster. He was technically a mobster, 191 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: but low and seniority, more the guy you turn to 192 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:02,839 Speaker 1: to break some legs or chuck some dynamite over a 193 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 1: fence than the mastermind of any operation. To my knowledge, 194 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 1: he was responsible for at least three bombings, including the 195 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 1: DeConcini bombing. So how on earth did Jerry Paisley, a 196 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 1: mobster who bombed to judge's house, end up marrying Peggy Begett, 197 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: the widow of a missing congressman. How did they meet? 198 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 1: The official story is this in late nine About a 199 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:54,960 Speaker 1: year after Nick Beggetts vanished, Peggy was with a friend 200 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:57,560 Speaker 1: at the holiday in an Anchorage when she ran into Paisley, 201 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 1: who was tending bar. They hit it off, and a 202 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 1: few months later, in March nineteen seventy four, they got 203 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: hitched in Tucson. I've already told you why the mob 204 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 1: was in Tucson. But why was the mob in Alaska 205 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:13,160 Speaker 1: in the seventies. Why was Jerry Paisley in Alaska in 206 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 1: the seventies? One word oil. After the discovery of oil 207 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty eight at Prudeo Bay, Alaska boomed. Everything 208 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 1: in modern Alaska history can be split into pre nineteen 209 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 1: sixty eight and post nineteen Pre nineteen sixty eight, Alaska 210 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 1: was scenic and had timber and bears a stereotype, sure, 211 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: but people in the lower forty eight didn't really care 212 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 1: about it except for its natural beauty, some of its resources, 213 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 1: and at the height of the Cold War, it's strategic 214 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 1: location near the Soviet Union. Post ninety eight, Alaska was 215 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 1: an oil state, a state with immense wealth waiting to 216 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 1: be tapped, a state with mounds of money just waiting 217 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 1: to be pumped into people's pockets. Pre nineteen sixty eight, 218 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 1: there was crime, but wasn't exorbitant. Post ninety eight, it boomed. 219 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 1: Pre ninety eight, you could still find affordable housing. Post 220 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 1: night with a crush of new workers, you couldn't. It 221 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:16,400 Speaker 1: was during this boom atmosphere in nineteen seventy that Alaskin's 222 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 1: first elected, Nick Baggetts, to the u. S. House. Beggetts 223 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 1: had run a campaign promising to maximize oil prosperity, but importantly, 224 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: he also acknowledged the problems that stirred up. Here's an 225 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:30,440 Speaker 1: ad he ran in nineteen seventy. You don't have to 226 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:32,680 Speaker 1: be an economist to know that we have a critical 227 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 1: housing shortage. All you have to do is try to 228 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 1: find a place to live. Five years ago, the typical 229 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,880 Speaker 1: monthly payments for a twenty thousand dollar home would be 230 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 1: about one Now, a twenty thousand dollar home that's if 231 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:50,920 Speaker 1: you can find one, would be well over two dollars 232 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 1: a month. America's leading housing official recently stated that less 233 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 1: than of Americans can really afford to buy a home. 234 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 1: That's the problem nationwide. The last situation is worse. There 235 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 1: are practical solutions. Nick Beggatch finds practical solutions as a 236 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 1: state senator. He's been doing it for eight years, and 237 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 1: he's been vocal about it. Nick begat has always wanted 238 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 1: you to know where he stood. He still does. Nick 239 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 1: beggat is Alaska's man for Congress. Beggatte went on to 240 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:32,280 Speaker 1: help pass the Alaska Native Claim Settlement Act or ANKSA, 241 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:36,040 Speaker 1: a monumental piece of legislation that removed a major obstacle 242 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 1: blocking construction of the Trans Alaska Pipeline, but the pipeline 243 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: still faced countless legal, political, and environmental hurdles. It wasn't 244 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 1: until March nine, two and a half years after Beggett's vanished, 245 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 1: that construction finally began. Poor morning. After years of planning, 246 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: court fights, and stockpiling of materials, construction of the Alaska 247 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 1: Oil Pipeline begins. It will run almost eight hundred miles 248 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:03,239 Speaker 1: from the North supe of Alaska to the port of Valdes. 249 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,160 Speaker 1: The pipeline is supposed to be finished in about two 250 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 1: years at a cost of at least six billion dollars. 251 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:13,159 Speaker 1: The Big boom is already underway in Alaska. Asked the 252 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 1: people in the city of Fairbanks, for example, Jack Perkins did, 253 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 1: and here is his report. It used to be in 254 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:24,879 Speaker 1: fair Banks that keeping the snow shoveled half the roof 255 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 1: was one of the main problems. But today, with the 256 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 1: coming of the pipe loving, Fairbanks is a boomtown and 257 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:35,359 Speaker 1: there are new problems they never thought of here before. 258 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: Used to be in Fairbanks you can make a telephone 259 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:48,120 Speaker 1: call right away without having to try for an hour 260 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:54,160 Speaker 1: without getting buzzed off. But with the pipeline, the local 261 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,880 Speaker 1: phone system is flooded with more calls than a year 262 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:01,120 Speaker 1: ago and can't handle them. Used to be, you could 263 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 1: get an apartment, nothing fancy, but sheltered for a couple 264 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 1: hundred dollars. Now rents have doubled and tripled, one bedroom 265 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:14,120 Speaker 1: five hundred a month and hardly anything available. Vacancy rate 266 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 1: in Fairbanks about zero. And consider crime rates. Always a 267 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 1: drinking town, but arrests for drunkenness now up a hundred 268 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:31,359 Speaker 1: and thirty five percent, juvenile arrests up fifty robberies up 269 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:34,359 Speaker 1: a hundred and twenty three percent, and with all the 270 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: pipeline workers passing through town with their rolls of money, 271 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:42,439 Speaker 1: prostitution arrests up seven percent. Many of the people who 272 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 1: moved to Alaska long before the oil boom were upset 273 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 1: to see the pristine home changing so rapidly. What you're 274 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:52,560 Speaker 1: getting here, of course, is what is what they call progress, 275 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:54,880 Speaker 1: isn't it? Now that's one name for it. I've heard 276 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:59,119 Speaker 1: other names for it which might not be arable. It 277 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 1: happens to sit. Is this bursting and straining toward what 278 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:06,640 Speaker 1: is sometimes called progress? But maybe nowhere has it ever 279 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:10,399 Speaker 1: happened so much and so fast. And it's not just 280 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:13,320 Speaker 1: the people of Fairbanks weren't ready for it is there? 281 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 1: Many of them don't want it at all. Jack Perkins, 282 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 1: NBC News, Fairbanks, Alaska. Two years later, in June nine, 283 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:28,199 Speaker 1: construction on the pipeline wrapped up. Oil Mania reached a 284 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 1: fever pitch. Now the richest could really flow. There's oil 285 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:35,680 Speaker 1: in the pipeline, the Trans Alaska Pipeline. This evening pump 286 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,679 Speaker 1: station number one at Prudeoe Bay, two hundred and fifty 287 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:41,679 Speaker 1: miles north of the Arctic Circle today began pushing heated 288 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: crude oil into the pipe. Don Oliver was there here. 289 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:50,920 Speaker 1: It is finally finished after eight years of planning and building. 290 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 1: The oil companies rattled off all sorts of superlative statistics 291 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:58,400 Speaker 1: about it. Eight hundred miles long, built by a peak 292 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 1: workforce of more than tw thousands from one end to 293 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,040 Speaker 1: the other, it will hold three hundred and eighty million 294 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:09,879 Speaker 1: gallons of oil. The cost nearly eight billion dollars, the 295 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 1: largest most expensive project ever attempted by a private enterprise. Okay, 296 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 1: so again, by this point it should be blatantly obvious 297 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,960 Speaker 1: why the Mob and Jerry Paisley specifically came to Alaska 298 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,880 Speaker 1: in the seventies. Oil oil is what drew the Mob 299 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 1: to Alaska. Oil is what drew Paisley to Alaska. It 300 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:34,760 Speaker 1: was a black gold rush. Here's Mike Grimes, a retired 301 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,959 Speaker 1: cop who worked for the Anchorage Police Department. That was 302 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,439 Speaker 1: the period when Alaska was just booming. It was like 303 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 1: a goal rush count because of oil pipeline being constructed, 304 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 1: so much money up there. They had such a dramatic 305 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: increase in population, and everybody coming from somewhere else, uh 306 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 1: to get rich in Alaska. And so it was a 307 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 1: very fascinating time to be working vice. And there was 308 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 1: only three of us on the vice squad at that time. 309 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 1: And uh, we had such an influx of prostitutional vainly 310 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 1: off the West coast. So the prostitution industry was just 311 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 1: booming up there on the gambling that we were having 312 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:29,360 Speaker 1: people come from all over with organized crime behind them 313 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:34,920 Speaker 1: from other states and set up underground gambling joints in 314 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:40,680 Speaker 1: Anchorage and uh and then after hours clubs that were 315 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 1: illegally serving alcohol. So we were inundated for the three 316 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 1: man vice squad. It was a wild time and Paisley 317 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 1: and the mob wanted to cash in drugs, sex work, 318 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 1: you name it. Paisley moved to Alaska nineteen seventy three 319 00:21:56,160 --> 00:22:00,159 Speaker 1: with his close friend Sal Spinelli. Like Paisley, Spinelli was 320 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,160 Speaker 1: a mobster with ties to both the lick of Oli 321 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:06,119 Speaker 1: and Banano crime families. When Paisley wed Peggy beget in 322 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 1: March n Spinelli was his best man After the wedding. 323 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: When Peggy, Paisley, and Spinelli returned to Anchorage, Spinelli opened 324 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 1: a jewelry store with Peggy's oldest son, Nick Begett's Jr. 325 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:21,399 Speaker 1: Multiple law enforcement sources told me the store was a 326 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:26,119 Speaker 1: front for stolen jewelry, including turquoise traffic from Arizona to Alaska. 327 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 1: Nick Begats Jr. Now a well known conspiracy theorist, was 328 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 1: only a teenager at the time. He declined interview requests. 329 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:36,959 Speaker 1: He was never convicted of any crime pertaining to the 330 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:40,200 Speaker 1: theft of jewelry, and again, he was only a kid, 331 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,040 Speaker 1: a kid who lost his dad and ended up with 332 00:22:43,080 --> 00:23:13,160 Speaker 1: a violent new stepfather, Jerry Paisley. As Paisley settled into 333 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:17,359 Speaker 1: married life, Peggy Begett now Peggy Paisley, showered him with money. 334 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 1: After Nick, her first husband, disappeared, Peggy had received a 335 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 1: windfall of cash. According to documents I found archived at 336 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 1: the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, there was a fifty five 337 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:31,639 Speaker 1: thousand dollar life insurance policy which had a double indemnity 338 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,840 Speaker 1: clause for accidental death, so a hundred and ten thousand 339 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,879 Speaker 1: dollars from that, and there was a one time forty 340 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,880 Speaker 1: five dollar benefit from Congress, plus the balance of Nick's 341 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:46,040 Speaker 1: checking in retirement accounts. Altogether, Peggy got at least a 342 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty eight thousand, four hundred and thirty one 343 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 1: dollars and seven cents, about a million dollars today when 344 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:57,360 Speaker 1: adjusted for inflation. She inherited other things too, including apartment buildings. 345 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 1: Peggy spent much of that money on her new husband 346 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:04,040 Speaker 1: and Paisley. The newlyweds honeymoon in Mexico. They were joined 347 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 1: on that trip, as I said earlier, by Pete Lacavol Jr. 348 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 1: And his wife Cathy. Peggy bought Paisley expensive jewelry and 349 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 1: fancy cars too, including a Cadillac El Dorado and a 350 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 1: Jaguar x K. She also bought him a bar. In 351 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 1: May nineteen seventy four, two months after Peggy and Paisley wed, 352 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 1: they started a business called Max Inc. I obtained the 353 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 1: company's records from the state of Alaska. Peggy was the president, 354 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,320 Speaker 1: Paisley was the secretary treasurer, and another man whom I'll 355 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:38,240 Speaker 1: discussed later was the vice president. Max Inc. Operated a 356 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:41,440 Speaker 1: bar and anchorage called the Alaska Mining Company, the type 357 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 1: of watering hole that minted money during the oil boom. 358 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:48,119 Speaker 1: It had previously been called the Green Dragon. Here again 359 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,520 Speaker 1: is Mike Grimes, the retired Anchorage cop who worked vice 360 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:55,840 Speaker 1: in the seventies. I heard Paisley was involved in the 361 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,679 Speaker 1: it's called Laska Mining Company before it was a reading dragon, 362 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 1: that he was involved in that place with the Beggy 363 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:06,679 Speaker 1: just and I said, God, what are they doing this scumback? 364 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,280 Speaker 1: You know, because uh, I mean, I was a lifelong 365 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 1: Alaskan Nick Beggy towards my congress. Peggy and Paisley's marriage 366 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 1: wasn't exactly common knowledge, at least to the general public, 367 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,679 Speaker 1: but a good number of politically connected folks and members 368 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:26,359 Speaker 1: of law enforcement knew about it. Perhaps this is a 369 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 1: good time to pause to examine why the marriage is 370 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: even newsworthy at all, because I know what people will say. 371 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:37,360 Speaker 1: They'll say I'm reporting it because it's salacious. They'll say 372 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,639 Speaker 1: I'm trying to sex up this story in order to 373 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 1: sell it. But that's not true. They don't know what 374 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 1: I know. At first glance, Peggy Begett seems to be 375 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:50,680 Speaker 1: a sympathetic character, a woman whose husband vanished, a woman 376 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,879 Speaker 1: who became a single mother to six kids, a woman 377 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:58,120 Speaker 1: who's now a grandmother in her eighties. Typically her personal 378 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:00,840 Speaker 1: life would be none of my business. Sure, she ran 379 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,120 Speaker 1: for Congress several times after Nick disappeared, so she was 380 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,440 Speaker 1: for a while a public figure. But that's not why 381 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:10,399 Speaker 1: I'm reporting this, So bear with me. We have a 382 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:13,280 Speaker 1: ways to go. I also want to be clear about 383 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:17,120 Speaker 1: something else. I'm not reporting everything I know. I learned 384 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:21,119 Speaker 1: a lot, but certain things, while salacious, aren't pertinent to 385 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 1: this story, and I'm purposely leaving them out. Also, one 386 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:29,119 Speaker 1: more thing, Mark beget, Peggy's son, served for six years 387 00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 1: in the U. S. Senate. So let me say too 388 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 1: that I have no political agenda here. In fact, I 389 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:36,959 Speaker 1: think Mark was a good senator, and he was just 390 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 1: a kid when all of this happened, a kid traumatized 391 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,120 Speaker 1: by the loss of his father. Peggy Beggett and Mark 392 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 1: Beggett declined multiple interview requests. Living large on Peggy's money, 393 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:54,399 Speaker 1: Paisley spiraled out of control by nine six. He was 394 00:26:54,440 --> 00:27:00,399 Speaker 1: heavily into drugs, was married to Peggy. He just couldn't 395 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 1: leave a cocaine alone. And it's since the cocaine and 396 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 1: the women and this and that, and it just it 397 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:13,000 Speaker 1: was terrible to to watch the deterioration of his and 398 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 1: Peggy's relationship. I felt sorry for Peggy, you know, and 399 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 1: she got herself into something that she probably had no idea. 400 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 1: Do you know if she knew of his background really 401 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,680 Speaker 1: when they got married. I would say she did not, 402 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,320 Speaker 1: but I have no way of knowing for sure. That's 403 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:40,639 Speaker 1: Paisley's friend. George Schaefer. I've known Paisley since the early sixties. 404 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:45,800 Speaker 1: I probably knew him better than anybody in Alaska. Schaefer 405 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:52,040 Speaker 1: met Paisley in Arizona sometime around nineteen. He owned a bar, 406 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 1: it was called the Cabaret Lounge in Tucson in Arizona, 407 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:03,600 Speaker 1: and at that time, there was a lot of things 408 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:07,960 Speaker 1: going on with the well, there was all those bombings 409 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:14,439 Speaker 1: in Tucson. They were there was a group of people 410 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 1: that were coming in and trying to get a protection 411 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 1: racket on with some of the local bar owners around 412 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:32,840 Speaker 1: the town. And I was kind of brought in and 413 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,199 Speaker 1: used as a little bit of a muscle for them. 414 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 1: Just they were coming in and intimidating the bar owners 415 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 1: themselves and just trying to get them to pay protection 416 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 1: money like they did back east. Who doesn't work that 417 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:53,720 Speaker 1: well in the West. So that's how I originally met Paisley. 418 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 1: He was kind of on the other side, and we 419 00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:04,000 Speaker 1: kind of became friends, but not not to any great extent. 420 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,480 Speaker 1: When you say he was quite of on the other side, 421 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:14,800 Speaker 1: what do you mean by that, Well, he was associated 422 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:23,800 Speaker 1: with several of the so called mafia people, mainly the 423 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:31,560 Speaker 1: Nanos and and Lickabli. Paisley, Shafer said, was a quote 424 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:38,240 Speaker 1: crazy person wherever he went because trouble as far as 425 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 1: the deal with Peggy she did by him that mining company, 426 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 1: which is the bar. I guess you don't. You're well 427 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:50,440 Speaker 1: aware that I got shot there. I don't know the details. 428 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 1: I do know that you were shot there. Okay, Well 429 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:57,719 Speaker 1: I was shot there by somebody. You know that no 430 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 1: one knew. I mean, it was just a an incident 431 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 1: that I was in the wrong place the wrong time. Pasically, 432 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 1: he had a partner in the bar long you know, 433 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,280 Speaker 1: his wife gave him that more or less as a 434 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 1: wedding gift. As far as the ownership in the bar, 435 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:19,800 Speaker 1: his partner was a real straight ace guy, would never 436 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 1: break the law. In fact, when I went there to 437 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,720 Speaker 1: go to work, the only reason he called me in 438 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:35,360 Speaker 1: is because his regular bouncer from Phoenix, ron Moawyer was 439 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,800 Speaker 1: his name, and he had cleaned the bar up as 440 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 1: far as riff raff and all that. Well, he he 441 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:45,040 Speaker 1: worked two years, had to go on vacation. Jerry wanted 442 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:48,400 Speaker 1: me to work there for the two weeks while he 443 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 1: was on vacation, and I originally said no, and then 444 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:56,880 Speaker 1: he talked me into it anyway, So I was just 445 00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,440 Speaker 1: supposed to be paid under the table for two weeks 446 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,440 Speaker 1: and his partners, Oh, no, we can't do that. We 447 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:06,240 Speaker 1: need to put him on the payroll. Yeah, we gotta 448 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:11,520 Speaker 1: keep everything above board. And so I was lucky that 449 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 1: I was on work in the cop when I got shot. 450 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 1: But Danny Ziminich was the guy's name was partner's name, 451 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,920 Speaker 1: Daniel Max. Zevinich was the third person who had an 452 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,840 Speaker 1: ownership steak in Max Inc. The business Peggy and Paisley 453 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,880 Speaker 1: started after they got married. Sevenich was the company's vice president. 454 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 1: The company was called Max Inc. Because both Zivinich and 455 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:37,600 Speaker 1: Paisley shared the same middle name. Max Zeveni is a 456 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,480 Speaker 1: key figure in this story, someone you'll hear about in 457 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:44,640 Speaker 1: later episodes. He's still alive. He owns a popular bar 458 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,760 Speaker 1: in Anchorage. He declined multiple requests for an on the 459 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:55,360 Speaker 1: record interview. In late nineteen Peggy and Paisley got divorced. 460 00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,680 Speaker 1: Newly single, Paisley moved back to Arizona. For the next 461 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,200 Speaker 1: fifth teen years, he was in and out of prison 462 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:06,840 Speaker 1: on a variety of charges, including aggravated assault. Sometime around 463 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 1: he was paroled and he got a job in Phoenix 464 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 1: selling cars. There was a deal or another guy got 465 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,680 Speaker 1: out of prison that he was in with. After a 466 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:22,120 Speaker 1: few months they got together and there was a gal 467 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 1: involved a little bit. I don't know. He's told me 468 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 1: the details and I have forgotten them, except that he 469 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,400 Speaker 1: ended up killing that guy and was going to kill 470 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,480 Speaker 1: He told me that he pointed the gun. I guess 471 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 1: he killed a couple of guys, two of them in 472 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,120 Speaker 1: the front seat, and he pointed the gun at the 473 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:46,080 Speaker 1: girl and it jammed and didn't go off. Uh so 474 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:50,360 Speaker 1: he didn't kill her. But anyway, now he's wanted by 475 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:54,440 Speaker 1: the law. And that's when he came to live with me, 476 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,920 Speaker 1: just for a few weeks, and I got him a 477 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 1: job where they didn't even want to know his name 478 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:07,280 Speaker 1: and it was cashing to the table. Well, he he 479 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:12,080 Speaker 1: destroyed any anything, any kind of friendship we ever had 480 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:17,240 Speaker 1: because he ended up robbin some people while he was there. 481 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:21,400 Speaker 1: And of course he left left my truck at the 482 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,280 Speaker 1: Seattle airport. I was on vacation, left my truck at 483 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:26,960 Speaker 1: the Seattle Airport. I had to go get it and 484 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:31,120 Speaker 1: then I had to explain to the sheriffs. But there 485 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,760 Speaker 1: was that he was on the ten most wanted and 486 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:39,000 Speaker 1: they called him jealous Jerry. Well, he got so mad 487 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:43,000 Speaker 1: about that because that wasn't a story at all. He 488 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,959 Speaker 1: had nothing to do with the girl or he he 489 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,160 Speaker 1: didn't have any affair with her or nothing. But so 490 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:55,440 Speaker 1: that's motivated him to turn himself in. And that was in. 491 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:00,360 Speaker 1: You just heard Schaefer say Heisley was on the ten 492 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:04,680 Speaker 1: Most Wanted list, presumably the famous FBI list. Other people 493 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:08,360 Speaker 1: told me Paisley was on America's Most Wanted. Neither is accurate. 494 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:12,040 Speaker 1: In fact, Paisley was on a show called Prime Suspect. 495 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:14,319 Speaker 1: Think of it as a kind of rip off of 496 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:17,640 Speaker 1: America's Most Wanted. We tried to dig up the segment 497 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,920 Speaker 1: to share it with you, but we couldn't find it. 498 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:24,600 Speaker 1: When it aired. Sometime in ninety three, Paisley was living 499 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,960 Speaker 1: with George Schaefer, hiding out from the cops in Eagle Creek, Oregon, 500 00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:31,799 Speaker 1: about thirty minutes southeast of Portland. By that point, he 501 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:35,160 Speaker 1: had murdered at least five people, and he still had 502 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:38,280 Speaker 1: murder on his mind. I'll tell you another interesting story 503 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:43,200 Speaker 1: before we go, just like if you're interested in it. 504 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:48,520 Speaker 1: It was an obsession to Jerry Head. While he was 505 00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:54,000 Speaker 1: in Oregon. He was obsessed with wanting to kill a 506 00:34:54,120 --> 00:35:00,640 Speaker 1: dentist in Safford, Arizona, and evidently the dentist had done 507 00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:05,080 Speaker 1: something to him. Farley was in prison in Arizona. He 508 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,560 Speaker 1: was sent down there to have a tooth pole or something, 509 00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:11,200 Speaker 1: and a guy wouldn't give him enough novacaine. And then 510 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,480 Speaker 1: he told Jerry, I'm here to State to extract pain 511 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:18,160 Speaker 1: on you. I make you feel good. So Jerry was 512 00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:21,560 Speaker 1: obsessed with that, and he sware someday he was going 513 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:30,040 Speaker 1: to kill a dentist. Paisley didn't end up killing the dentist. Instead, 514 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:35,280 Speaker 1: in March, he turned himself in. He was subsequently convicted 515 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,640 Speaker 1: of murder and sentenced to life in prison. By late 516 00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:43,240 Speaker 1: Paisley was fifty three. He had no chance of getting out, 517 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:47,440 Speaker 1: no chance of leniency or reduced sentence. He was going 518 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:51,400 Speaker 1: to die behind bars. That's when he figured, fuck it, 519 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:55,280 Speaker 1: what do I have to lose? And he started talking 520 00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:00,640 Speaker 1: next time on missing in Alaska. That blow him up. 521 00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,719 Speaker 1: I don't know that JB have him blown up. I 522 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,239 Speaker 1: don't know. I know I took a fucking package up 523 00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:08,440 Speaker 1: there and they said it was a bum. They might 524 00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:16,160 Speaker 1: have been bullshit me. Here are your three tasks for 525 00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:18,880 Speaker 1: the week. First, I'd really like to get a copy 526 00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,799 Speaker 1: of the episode of Prime Suspect that featured Jerry Paisley. 527 00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:26,719 Speaker 1: I know it aired sometime between June and March. Help 528 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:29,640 Speaker 1: me find it. Second, I'd also like to get a 529 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:32,440 Speaker 1: copy of a nineteen one special report produced by k 530 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,879 Speaker 1: g u N, the Tucson ABC affiliate, called The Big 531 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:40,000 Speaker 1: Cheese Joe Bonano's Notes. Finally, I mentioned earlier than an 532 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:43,759 Speaker 1: undercover reporter witnessed Jerry Paisley's wedding to Peggy Baggage. I 533 00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:47,000 Speaker 1: believe that reporter is still alive, possibly living in the UK, 534 00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,120 Speaker 1: but I haven't been able to find him. His name 535 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:54,320 Speaker 1: is Alex Dressler d R E H S L e R. 536 00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:58,200 Speaker 1: If you know him, contact us. 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