1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: I've done criminal defense now for almost thirty seven years. 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: It takes one guy out there who saying. 3 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 1: Who's that fucking asshole Kyle who thinks he can just 4 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:08,720 Speaker 1: get on. 5 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 3: A goddamn microphone on a podcast and start publicizing this shit. 6 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:17,680 Speaker 2: Earlier this morning, detectives and federal agents invaded a junkyard 7 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:20,959 Speaker 2: in DuPage County, just west of Chicago. In keeping with 8 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 2: the legendary mo o of the Chicago Mob, officials fully 9 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 2: expected that they might find corpses inside the trunk of 10 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 2: the automobile. 11 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:32,880 Speaker 1: From iHeart Podcasts and Tenderfoot TV comes a new true 12 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 1: crime podcast, Crook County. 13 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 3: I got recruited into the mob when I was seventeen 14 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:40,520 Speaker 3: years old. 15 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 1: Meet Kenny aka the Kid. 16 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 3: I ran whorehouses and I did hits. 17 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 1: An enforcer for the legendary Chicago outfit. 18 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:51,559 Speaker 3: I wanted him to know I meant fucking business here. 19 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 3: Put the gun back up to his forehead. 20 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: He lived a secret double life as a firefighter, paramedic 21 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 1: for the Chicago Fire Department and a wife and I 22 00:00:59,320 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: have two children. 23 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 3: Nobody knew anything. 24 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 2: I always believe whatever he said, so I was. 25 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:06,760 Speaker 3: Not aware of his mafia involvement. 26 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:12,960 Speaker 1: Dad was a fucking crazy bastard. Welcome to Crook County, 27 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: the true story of one man's life inside organized crime 28 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 1: and his family left to pick up the pieces when 29 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:20,039 Speaker 1: it all went wrong. 30 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 3: You could see why he could be an enforcer. 31 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 1: People are dying. 32 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 2: Is he doing this every night? Does he go out 33 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 2: when they go to bed and they don't even know 34 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 2: He's not even in the house. 35 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 1: Torn between two worlds. 36 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 3: Just when you think you're away from all this shit, 37 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 3: I'm covering up fucking murders that these cops are. 38 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 1: Doing, tearing him and his family apart. I don't know 39 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: why I deserve this. 40 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 3: Ken's gonna die one day, and now Ken's got up 41 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 3: sit in front of the big guy and try to 42 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 3: explain his way out of this one. You know where. 43 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 3: I had every fucking opportunity in the world to do 44 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 3: the right thing, but I chose not to. 45 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 2: Ken is this great guy, and he's a legend, and dad. 46 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 1: Was a heroin addicts. He was a freaking crazy man. 47 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:12,919 Speaker 1: We don't know who he is really. He is my father, 48 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:17,080 Speaker 1: and I had no idea about any of this until now. 49 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 1: Welcome to Crook County available now listen for free on 50 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio, app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.