Speaker 1: I've done criminal defense now for almost thirty seven years.
Speaker 2: It takes one guy out there who saying.
Speaker 1: Who's that fucking asshole Kyle who thinks he can just
Speaker 1: get on.
Speaker 3: A goddamn microphone on a podcast and start publicizing this shit.
Speaker 2: Earlier this morning, detectives and federal agents invaded a junkyard
Speaker 2: in DuPage County, just west of Chicago. In keeping with
Speaker 2: the legendary mo o of the Chicago Mob, officials fully
Speaker 2: expected that they might find corpses inside the trunk of
Speaker 2: the automobile.
Speaker 1: From iHeart Podcasts and Tenderfoot TV comes a new true
Speaker 1: crime podcast, Crook County.
Speaker 3: I got recruited into the mob when I was seventeen
Speaker 3: years old.
Speaker 1: Meet Kenny aka the Kid.
Speaker 3: I ran whorehouses and I did hits.
Speaker 1: An enforcer for the legendary Chicago outfit.
Speaker 3: I wanted him to know I meant fucking business here.
Speaker 3: Put the gun back up to his forehead.
Speaker 1: He lived a secret double life as a firefighter, paramedic
Speaker 1: for the Chicago Fire Department and a wife and I
Speaker 1: have two children.
Speaker 3: Nobody knew anything.
Speaker 2: I always believe whatever he said, so I was.
Speaker 3: Not aware of his mafia involvement.
Speaker 1: Dad was a fucking crazy bastard. Welcome to Crook County,
Speaker 1: the true story of one man's life inside organized crime
Speaker 1: and his family left to pick up the pieces when
Speaker 1: it all went wrong.
Speaker 3: You could see why he could be an enforcer.
Speaker 1: People are dying.
Speaker 2: Is he doing this every night? Does he go out
Speaker 2: when they go to bed and they don't even know
Speaker 2: He's not even in the house.
Speaker 1: Torn between two worlds.
Speaker 3: Just when you think you're away from all this shit,
Speaker 3: I'm covering up fucking murders that these cops are.
Speaker 1: Doing, tearing him and his family apart. I don't know
Speaker 1: why I deserve this.
Speaker 3: Ken's gonna die one day, and now Ken's got up
Speaker 3: sit in front of the big guy and try to
Speaker 3: explain his way out of this one. You know where.
Speaker 3: I had every fucking opportunity in the world to do
Speaker 3: the right thing, but I chose not to.
Speaker 2: Ken is this great guy, and he's a legend, and dad.
Speaker 1: Was a heroin addicts. He was a freaking crazy man.
Speaker 1: We don't know who he is really. He is my father,
Speaker 1: and I had no idea about any of this until now.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Crook County available now listen for free on
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