WEBVTT - 8. The Red Dot Photos 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:20.599 Mm hmmmm mm. If you've never been to Arizona, much 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:24.799 of it is as you might expect, vast stretches of scrubby, 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:28.200 empty desert. I'm a fan of greenery, so I've never 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:30.680 thought of the Southwest as a place for me. But 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:33.760 to watch storm clouds gather on the horizon, or a 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:38.120 glowing desert sun sink into darkness is sublime. To see 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:42.160 oranges and purple's light up the sky, mountains backlit twilight, 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:46.280 to feel a dry breeze, It's an awe inspiring place. 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:50.000 I had only been to Arizona once before to Tucson 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:53.760 actually years ago, when I did a semester of grad school, 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.080 I flew into profile a militia leader who hunted down 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:00.960 undocumented immigrants with thermal cameras and a pack of German shepherds. 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:04.760 Now back in Tucson, I had a much different mission. 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:07.640 After a trip to Phoenix, I had only a few 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.880 days left to track down sources as I investigated Jerry 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:14.319 Paisley's claim that the missing Congressman Nick Beget and Hail 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:18.520 Bogs were assassinated in nineteen seventy two their plane bombed. 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:22.760 It was here in Tucson where Paisley wed Peggy Begets 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:26.360 in nineteen seventy four. It was here in Tucson where 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.080 he worked for two mafia families, the Bananas and the 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:32.400 Lick of Olie's. And it was here in Tucson where 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:35.240 I hope to figure out once and for all, did 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:45.560 Paisley tell the truth? From my heart Media, This is 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:48.680 Missing in Alaska, the story of two congressmen who vanished 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.400 in nineteen seventy two and my quest to figure out 0:01:51.400 --> 0:02:03.880 what happened to them. I'm your host, John Wallzac. This episode, 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:07.480 We're going to focus on two photos. It sounds simple, right, 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:11.400 just two photos. But these photos, the red dot photos, 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.320 are at the center of a web we will explore extensively. 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:18.240 These are the wedding photos that investigators secretly obtained and 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:22.760 marked up with stickers red dots with black numbers. Paisley 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:26.640 is red dot number six, Peggy is red dot number seven. 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.480 Standing next to them are mobsters and X cop, a 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:34.839 judge and others. I got the photos, the originals from 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:38.440 Tom Davis, who worked for the Arizona Department of Public Safety. 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:43.239 While working undercover in Tucson in n Davis secretly observed 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:46.800 Peggy and Paisley's wedding in Phoenix. Davis and I spoke 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:50.080 for more than five hours. After I left. We stayed 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:54.760 in touch. Hey Tom, how are you? I'm doing good 0:02:55.360 --> 0:03:00.919 and sent Davis again. Is also one of the reinvestigators 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.160 who conducted the pivotal Paisley interview at the Pima County 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:08.720 Jail when Paisley first disclosed the alleged bombing of the 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:12.080 congressman's plane. So I saw your text. You tell me 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:16.480 what the text said and just how you found it out. Okay. 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.800 I pulled up Google Match and I went to the 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:26.880 corner of wilmotin Speedway. If you go there and you 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:32.080 go in the main building, asked them where the old 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:37.360 Eldo Lodge used to be. The Eldrado Lodge is where 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:41.520 the wedding took place. Turns out it no longer exists. Well, 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:44.480 the buildings are still there, but today they're home to 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.960 the Mountain Oyster Club, a private club. I drove there 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:54.240 with Paul Decan, our supervising producer. The outside hasn't changed, 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:58.840 still stone. The inside, however, has been renovated. It's western 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.920 in ornate, a lot of would no more seventies to court. 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:06.200 We sat down with Pauline loftus, the manager. Could I 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.880 show you two photos and see if any of it 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:14.240 seems familiar. So these are photos from a wedding, a ceremony, 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:18.240 and a reception that took place in nineteen four on 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:26.000 this property when it was the El Dorado. Um m 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:30.840 hmm not yet. Let me think about it for a 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.320 little bit. I mean, most of the doorways in the clever, 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.200 big archways, and this one's kind of just a small, 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.279 regular doorway. It could almost be in the room that 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:43.599 we're sitting in. Um or either that or in the 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:48.000 lobby there's or is that a picture behind them? Is 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:52.560 that a picture? It looks like a picture, yeah, so 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.880 or is it a mirror? It's hard to tell. Gums 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.760 Tree detectives. Now, the three of us wandered through the club, 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:05.039 impairing certain features, doorways, etcetera. To what exists today? Where 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:07.800 were the red dot photos taken? Where was the bar 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:11.920 where investigator Tom Davis sat undercover? Um, there's a bar? 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.200 Can you sure you were saying you think you know 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.600 where the bar was? Could you take a We're going 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:20.040 to go around this way. I think it wasn't here 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:22.479 because if you look at that window. I don't think 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.279 this wall was here. I think that staircase was open 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.560 to upstairs because there were rooms up there, and so 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:30.440 you would have come down the stairs. There was the 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:37.839 bar in here and then the doorway there and that window. Yeah, 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.160 we thought we found some of the spots in the photos, 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.040 but it was hard to tell. So much had changed. 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.880 We don't have original plans of the building. We don't 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.479 know half the time. We don't know what's in the walls. 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:53.040 So it's like we have a lot of surprises nobody 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:57.400 so far. No. No. In fact, we had a pretty 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:01.760 major kitchen remodel last summer, and that kept occurring to me. 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:03.599 I would think, my god, I hope we don't find 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:09.680 any bodies when they dig that. In the Peggy Paisley 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.960 wedding photos taken at the Eldorado, red dot number three 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.600 is Pete look of Oli Jr. The son of mob 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:19.280 boss Pete horse face look of Oli Senior. Pete Jr. 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.920 Was Paisley's friend. He and his wife Cathy, even accompanied 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.280 Paisley and Peggy on their honeymoon in Mexico. For months, 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.680 I tried to reach Pete Jr. Who still lived in 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.479 Tucson to no avail now. As we left the Mountain 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:35.400 Oyster Club, I pulled up another list of possible numbers 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:48.440 and dialed away Hi the number. That ranger in recording 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:51.320 the error can check the number and your call again. 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:57.640 So apparently the rule of from is if you are 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:01.160 an old mobster, you do not have a working phone number. 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.360 None of them have working phone numbers. They're all dead. 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.320 They all sound like crazy modem sound. At the end. 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:11.680 All I want to do is to call some mobsters. 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.440 I kept striking out. I've reached a number that does 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:19.600 not accept solicitations. If you are a solicitor, please add 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.040 this number to your do not call list and hang 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:25.920 up now. Otherwise, please press one or stay on the line. 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:41.080 I'm gonna press one, thank you, lease hold Okay, I'm 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.400 sorry this mailbox has not yet been set up by 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:49.840 the subscriber. Please try again later. Goodbye. Jee here trying 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.040 to block me As a solicitor, I can't leave a 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:58.880 voicemail somebody who doesn't want to be found. Yes, we're 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:02.280 just gonna have to go to house then, So that's 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:05.640 what we did. We went to Pete Lukavoli Jr's house. 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.680 At first, We circled the block. Then we pulled up. 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:15.040 I hopped out of the car and rang the bell. Nothing. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:22.400 I knocked nothing. We drove to his brother, Mike's house nearby. 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.720 Mike Lacavoli isn't in any of the wedding photos, the 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:29.360 red dot photos. I think, I say I think because 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.440 there are a few unidentified men. Maybe he is one 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.640 of the red dots. I don't know. Like Pete Jr. 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.560 Mike had been friends with Paisley. When I walked up 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:42.840 to Mike's door, I heard a muffled TV. I rang 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:48.560 the bell, A dog barked. Someone told it to shut up. 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:56.880 I waited. No one came to the door. The TV 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:05.079 cut off. I knocked nothing. I wondered if the Look 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.240 of OLiS had been tipped off that we were in town. 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:11.000 I know that sound paranoid, but hear me out. The 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.959 day before, I had spoken by phone with Louis Marconi, 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.680 an X cop who back in the day was friends 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.360 with both Paisley and the Look of Olie kids in 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:23.120 the wedding photos. Marconi is red dot number five. When 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.720 we spoke, I played dumb, testing Marconi because I already 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.640 knew the answer. I asked whether or not he attended 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:33.200 Peggy and Paisley's wedding. He said no. I told him 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:35.600 I had a photo of him at the wedding. He 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:39.240 said basically, okay, prove it. Send me the photo. So 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.440 I cropped out everyone but him and emailed it to him. 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.079 He was like, yeah, that might be me. I'm not sure. 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:49.320 I asked if he didn't recognize himself, maybe it was him. 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:53.680 He said maybe it wasn't. That was a long time ago. Yeah, okay, 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.960 but you don't recognize yourself. I asked him if he 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.679 still spoke with the Look of Olie kids. He said no. Remember, 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:02.760 this was the day before Paul and I went to 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.760 the Look of Always Holmes. This is why I wondered 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.559 if someone had tipped them off. I wondered if Marconi 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.520 had tipped them off. After we left Mike lick of 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.520 Ali's house, the house where someone was clearly home, but 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:18.320 nobody came to the door. I called Marconi again. I 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:20.560 asked again whether or not he was still in touch 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.360 with the Lick of Olie kids. The day before, he 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:27.360 said no. Today he said yes. I asked if he 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.280 had alerted them that we were in town digging. He 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:36.280 got flustered and hung up on me. Frustrated, I turned 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:40.360 my attention to Salth Spinelli Red dot number four. Spinelli, 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:44.240 a mobster, was Paisley's close friend, his business partner, and 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.120 the best man at his wedding to Peggy Baggage. He 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.640 was so close to Paisley, in fact, that even his 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:53.840 father attended the wedding. Spinelli Sr. Is red dot number eight. 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.640 At the time, I wasn't sure whether or not Spinelli Jr. 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:00.640 Was even alive. I'm good at finding people, but he 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:04.520 was a ghost for months. I called and called, an emailed, 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:08.720 and emailed and mailed letters to addresses all over the place. Now, 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.560 in a last ditch effort, Paul and I drove around 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:15.480 knocking on doors. The first was a bust an empty house. 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.079 The second was an apartment on the edge of town. 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.400 So I just went looking for this apartment that we 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:23.800 thought Salth Spinelli might be in, and I knocked on 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.880 the door. Had to walk through this apartment complex, and 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:31.840 it's this kind of dingy, dark little corridor, so I 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:36.720 was hoping I didn't get jumped. Um. But I knocked 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.320 on the door and I could hear a woman, and 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.199 then another woman, and then I could hear them talking 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:46.760 about me, just like who is this guy? Like, don't 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.800 answer it? Should I answer it? Like he might ask 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:53.200 about Graham or Grant, and so I don't. I'm like 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:57.240 the hiding some old lady or I don't know. It 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.120 was weird. And then I started walking away and I 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.240 circled around the bill name because I said I was 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:05.080 I was looking for Sal. And then they were completely quiet, 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.400 and I stood there for like a minute, and I 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.840 walked around the building started to leave, and this guy 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.880 pulled up in a car and asked me, like, Hey, 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:15.680 are you banging on the door looking for a Sal? 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.520 And I said yes, and he said, oh, I don't know, 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.840 no fucking Sal. So don't don't do that again. Don't 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:27.240 bang on the door again. So this is seal possible 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.960 address number two. The first one was for sale and 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:36.800 nobody was living there. So on with Seal spelunking hunting. 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:41.080 Please don't use this audio. We checked more addresses, but 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:45.960 none worked. Turns out Spinelli's dead, so too is Toby 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:49.679 levettter Red Dot number twelve, the judge who presided over 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:54.439 Peggy and Paisley's wedding. Interestingly enough, Lovetta also presided over 0:12:54.480 --> 0:13:00.160 sal Spinelli's nine extortion trial. Go figure as afternoon Mel did. 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.600 In the evening, Paul and I decided to make one 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:06.400 final stop at the home of Alganum, Red Dot number one, 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:10.960 except that failed to Ganum lived in a gated community 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:14.560 and we couldn't get in by the way. Poor Paul. 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:17.960 That day was his birthday and he was stuck driving 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.800 me around Tucson looking for old mobsters. So we went 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.720 back to our hotel and and then we kept working 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.800 into the night. But work is a stretch. Paul is 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:29.840 something of a foodie, so I told him to just 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.360 pick a place wherever he wanted and we'd go there 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:41.120 for dinner. Turns out he was cool with a desert 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:46.040 tiki bar, specifically the Contiki, so dinner doubled as work. 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:54.800 The Contiki. What a place. It's a tiki bar in Tucson, 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.680 one of the oldest surviving tiki bars in the nation. 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:01.080 This is the place where a core THNK to Jerry Paisley. 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:04.520 Peggy Beggett allegedly dined with Joe Banano in the summer 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:08.680 of nineteen seventy two before Nick Beggett, her husband disappeared. 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.360 The inside can best be described as dark and tropical. 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.640 Paul and I sat down, We ordered a few drinks. 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.840 For hours, the only music that played was the Red 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:22.040 Hot Chili Peppers. At first, we didn't tell our server, 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.080 Kaylee Anne, who we were or why we were there. 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.560 When we did tell her, she was, to say the 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:33.160 least surprised. So we are standing outside the CONTI key, uh, 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.480 could you tell me your name? Kyle? And how long 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.320 have you works here? I've warned here I think about 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:41.960 five months so far? And what do you know about 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.880 this place? How old is it? Well, it was either 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:48.400 sixty two or sixty three that it first got established. 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:51.360 It started as a fine dining steak restaurant. From what 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:55.840 I've heard, people say that the interior has barely changed 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.080 besides the point that they got rid of the red 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:03.840 carpet finally this last year. And we've had like birds 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.200 and lizards outside on what is our patio now? So 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:11.800 have you ever seen any mobsters in here? I have 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:15.080 not seen any mobsters. Do you know who Joe Bano was? 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.800 I have no idea who that is. Okay, so Banana 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.120 was the guy. Have you ever seen the Godfather? Yes? 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.480 Okay Banana was the guy. Who inspired Don Corleone and 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:27.120 The Godfather, and he was he was in New York 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:31.200 and he retired, quote retired to Tucson and he actually 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.960 lived here for a very long time and died. And 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:38.920 there's an allegation from someone who was associated with him 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:42.440 that in the summer of nineteen seventy two that Joe 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:47.600 Banano met with the wife of a congressman at the Contiki. 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:52.840 But hearing this and just standing outside the Conti Ki 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:57.440 and we've all tell us your neighbor a good Kaylee, 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:59.200 John Paul. The three of us have all been in 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:01.480 there for what three hours? You're probably be in the 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:07.360 locker than us. What is what do you think here that? 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.560 I mean, I just couldn't imagine that happening in the 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:13.440 place that it is now, and considering that it's like 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.040 a tiki bar. People come here like from all over 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:19.040 the United States just to kind of collect our mugs 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:21.800 and do other things like that in our scorpion bowl 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:23.680 is what we're known for, which just has a lot 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:28.160 of boozes. So it's kind of crazy to think at 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.560 one point something like that could have happened because it 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.200 just seems like a free loving place. But if I 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:35.840 mean I could believe it if it really was the 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:39.240 luxurious steakhouse that everyone made it out to be beforehand, 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.200 because of course, why when mobsters go there? Right from 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:48.360 what we know from movies, that's just that I cannot 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:52.040 fully wrap my mind around it. From how the Conti 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:58.920 key is now, the County keys and FBI documents, I 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:00.960 couldn't see that. I mean, we just have a lot 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:04.240 of fun people that come in. It's such a diverse crowd. 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:07.960 But tell me, could you describe the Contiki to me? 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.320 Oh my goodness, Well, you can definitely tell that it 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.679 has some history to it. I mean just with the 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.440 decorations and everything we've had, like a lot of them 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:22.200 are original pieces that are in there. I mean, it's 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.359 just a fun place. It's so when you drive up 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.320 to the Contiki, you're thinking, what is this because the 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:32.040 buildings on the side, some of them aren't feels like 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:34.520 some of the storefronts and all that. And you just 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:37.520 walk inside and it's like you're in your own little oasis, 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:39.920 and you're like, there's no way that in the middle 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:44.080 of Tucson on Arizona could be this place. And I 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.399 mean people just come here to have fun, have a 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:51.120 good time escape. It's an island escape. And to hear 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:55.840 the allegation that allegedly an assassination plot was hatched partially 0:17:55.960 --> 0:18:00.440 at the Contiki and that it's in FBI documents. I mean, 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.359 the Tiki is supposed to be a happy place either. 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:06.320 My manager, he's like, it's it's a Tiki day, It's 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:09.800 a day in Tiki paradise. So I couldn't imagine that 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:21.399 an assassination was planned in the teach. I know, I 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:25.680 know it sounds absurd, but guess what, The conti Ki 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:29.239 was controlled by the mob, at least in part. A 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:32.240 few months after our Arizona trip, I traveled with another 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:35.600 one of our producers, Chris Brown, No, not that Chris Brown, 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.720 to Columbia, Missouri, where we spent a day digging through 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:43.880 archived records at the State Historical Society of Missouri. Why Missouri, Well, 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.399 we had been granted special access to a trove of 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:50.199 valuable records. These records were compiled in the seventies by 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:53.680 journalists working on the Arizona Project. The project launched in 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:57.000 the aftermath of the assassination of reporter Don Bowles, who 0:18:57.119 --> 0:19:00.520 was killed in Phoenix by a car Bomb amazingly indies 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:04.159 records which document widespread crime and corruption. Chris and I 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:08.440 kept finding names. We recognized the Bananas, the Lick of Olie's, 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:14.640 Jerry Paisley, Peggy Beggitte, Danny Zivinach sal Spinelli, Louis Marconi, 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:20.080 Joeya Tarola, and the Contiki. Yes, even our beloved Contiki. 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:23.480 I found the Conti he described three times as a 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:27.320 mob owned business, specifically that Pete Likavoli Senior owned it 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:30.520 at the time, at least in part. Again, the Conti 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:34.000 key was the place where, according to Paisley, Peggy Beggett 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:37.280 allegedly met with Joe Banano. In the records, I also 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:40.960 found a memo dated December sixteenth, nineteen seventy six, written 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:44.440 by Alex Dressler, the reporter who secretly observed Peggy and 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:50.800 Paisley's wedding. The subject Bill Bonano, Joe Banano's son, Quote D. S. 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:54.520 Forty is a confidential law enforcement source in Anchorage, Alaska. 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:58.040 He told me that one of his confidential informants, a woman, 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:00.560 was on a huge Air West flight to December four, 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:04.959 ninety six from Phoenix to San Jose. On board the plane, 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:07.800 sitting next to her was a man who identified himself 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:11.040 as Bill Bonano. When she told him she was from Anchorage, 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:13.959 he stated that he had a bar in Anchorage. Because 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:16.640 of salth Spinelli and Jerry Paisley's involvement with a bar 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:18.920 in Anchorage and the fact that they have been close 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:21.760 to Bill Bonano in the past, it is conceivable that 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:25.480 Banano meant that this was his bar end quote. If 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:28.600 this source was accurate, and if Bill Bonano was referring 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:31.639 to Paisley's bar, then he was in fact referring to 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:34.960 the Alaska Mining Company the bar co owned by Paisley, 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:38.760 Peggy Baggett, and Danny Zevanich as his bar, a Banano bar. 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:43.760 Another Dressler memo, citing a different law enforcement source, said quote, 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:47.760 the word is that Peter Locavoli Jr. Year old son 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:51.800 of Detroit mafia boss Peter Locavoli Sr. With Jerome, Max 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:55.320 Paisley and Salvator Spinelli, are in the process of setting 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:58.400 up their own group. This alliance would consist of younger 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:01.520 members of the Likavoli and Banana families and would attempt 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:05.840 to control gambling, narcotics, trade, and prostitution organized in Western 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:10.200 United States and Alaska. Information has it that Licavoli would 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:13.240 head up this new organization with Paisley and Spinelli, who 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:16.240 both hold allegiances to Joseph Bonano, who would control the 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:19.800 lucrative Alaska market. It appears that younger members of different 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:24.159 organized crime families, namely the Likavolian Banano families, are forming 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:27.639 to control the operations in the Western States, including Alaska. 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:30.600 This new venture apparently has the sanction of the old 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:35.119 downs Joseph Bonano Senior and Peter Likavoli Senior end quote, 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:40.119 and there was much much more. In December nineteen seventy two, 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:43.439 according to one document, mob boss Joe Banano met at 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:47.439 a Tucson hotel with two men, including Joeya Tarola or 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:51.120 Joey the i Ayah Tarola again was the man Paisley 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:54.400 claimed dined with him, Peggy Baggett and Joe Banano at 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:57.119 the Conti Ki in the summer of nineteen seventy two, 0:21:57.480 --> 0:22:00.200 the man who allegedly gave Paisley the lock suit case 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:02.919 with a bomb that he flew to Alaska, the bomb 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:06.720 that allegedly killed the missing congressmen. Another memo states that 0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:10.600 in nineteen seventy five, Jerry Paisley sal Spinelli and Nick 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:14.320 Begett Jr. Attended a Banano wedding in Tucson, though it 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:18.440 doesn't specify which wedding. Quote. We are interested in these 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:22.840 people because of information that they are involved in running prostitutes, narcotics, 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:26.840 and stolen goods from Arizona to Alaska, with Peter Licavoli 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:30.440 Junior in charge of the criminal group end quote. Back 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:34.359 in the seventies, Pete Lacavoli Junior denied these allegations. I 0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:36.720 tried several times to reach him for comment, but he 0:22:36.760 --> 0:22:41.560 didn't respond. Nick Begetts Junior declined an interview request in 0:22:41.640 --> 0:22:44.840 March nineteen seventy five, and this was deering Paisley's marriage 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:48.160 to Peggy Baggage. An informants saw Paisley with Bill Bonano 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:52.240 and Sal Spinelli. Quote Paisley and Spinelli are involved in 0:22:52.280 --> 0:22:57.879 the following activities and Anchorage cocaine, speed, prostitution, gambling, and 0:22:57.960 --> 0:23:02.800 stolen turquoise jewelry end quote quote Stolen turquoise jewelry is 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:05.880 being run from Arizona through the Nick Vegats jewelry store 0:23:05.880 --> 0:23:09.720 and Anchorage end quote. Also in the archives. And yes, 0:23:09.760 --> 0:23:11.960 I know you're probably sick of me. Using that phrase. 0:23:12.320 --> 0:23:14.879 I found a copy of Jerry Paisley and Peggy Beggat's 0:23:14.920 --> 0:23:18.920 divorce settlement. Paisley and Peggy filed for divorce on March eighth, 0:23:19.040 --> 0:23:23.600 nineteen seventy six, reconciled, filed again for divorce on September thirtieth, 0:23:23.680 --> 0:23:27.359 nineteen seventy six, and finally were granted to divorce on 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:31.400 November sixteenth, nineteen seventy six. As part of the divorce settlement, 0:23:31.440 --> 0:23:34.840 Peggy kept several pieces of land in both Arizona and Alaska. 0:23:35.280 --> 0:23:38.680 Paisley renounced his interest in the Nick Begets Junior jewelry store. 0:23:39.080 --> 0:23:42.399 Peggy kept a nineteen seventy six Buick Wagon, a seventy 0:23:42.480 --> 0:23:46.080 six Oldsmobile, a seventy four Jaguar, and as seventy three 0:23:46.119 --> 0:23:50.639 Dotson quote. Jerry gets the seventy five Caddy end quote. 0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:54.520 The settlement also details how Peggy, Paisley, and Danny Zevanich 0:23:54.640 --> 0:23:57.760 split up ownership of Max Inc. Their business, the one 0:23:57.840 --> 0:24:00.840 behind the Alaska Mining Company. I could go on and 0:24:00.920 --> 0:24:03.720 on and on, but I have to get to explosives. 0:24:04.280 --> 0:24:07.320 In the red Dot photos, the Paisley Peggy wedding photos, 0:24:07.480 --> 0:24:11.439 there are three unnamed men Now, via these records, I 0:24:11.480 --> 0:24:14.199 was finally able to identify one of them as Robert 0:24:14.240 --> 0:24:18.800 Thomas Smith or Bobby Smith. Paisley and Smith were business partners. 0:24:18.960 --> 0:24:22.399 They started a company called the Paisley Smith Construction Company, 0:24:22.480 --> 0:24:26.680 and guess what. In nineteen Smith was indicted on extortion 0:24:26.760 --> 0:24:31.240 charges after allegedly bombing a Tucson nightclub. Another man, Victor 0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:35.720 Vincent Livingston, was indicted alongside Smith. According to a memo 0:24:35.800 --> 0:24:39.760 I found, Livingston was quote an explosives expert who once 0:24:39.800 --> 0:24:43.119 worked for the Apache Powder Company. Smith reportedly is a 0:24:43.240 --> 0:24:46.439 driver for Livingston when they're on a job end. Quote. 0:24:46.920 --> 0:24:49.120 So here we have a man in Peggy and Paisley's 0:24:49.119 --> 0:24:51.480 wedding photo, one of the red dots, who was a 0:24:51.560 --> 0:24:55.879 driver for and indicted alongside an explosives expert who allegedly 0:24:55.920 --> 0:24:59.400 bombed a Tucson nightclub in nineteen sixty eight. But wait, 0:24:59.720 --> 0:25:04.720 there's more. A memo dated January nineteen seventy seven states 0:25:04.760 --> 0:25:07.800 that salth Spinelli, Paisley's close friend and the best man 0:25:07.840 --> 0:25:11.119 at his wedding to Peggy Baggage, had quote ties to 0:25:11.160 --> 0:25:14.439 a Robert Lloyd Lusk, who was present when Charles O 0:25:14.720 --> 0:25:18.320 Louderback was arrested in Alaska for possession of one pound 0:25:18.320 --> 0:25:22.000 of heroin, a half pound of coke, twenty one firearms, 0:25:22.400 --> 0:25:26.919 live moorder rounds, and thousands of rounds of ammunition. End quote. 0:25:27.359 --> 0:25:30.240 So Spinelli was one degree of separation from a guy 0:25:30.359 --> 0:25:34.320 arrested in Alaska for possession of drugs, guns, thousands of 0:25:34.400 --> 0:25:39.040 rounds of ammunition, and live moorder rounds. There's still more though, 0:25:39.440 --> 0:25:45.040 there's still Suitcase Charlie. Yes, Suitcase Charlie. Journalists working on 0:25:45.080 --> 0:25:49.320