THE ARCHIVES: INSIDE THE LIFE “You can’t understand the man until you understand the world that made him.” Most people think the Mob was just New York and Chicago. They think it was just Tommy guns and cannoli. They’re wrong.The real war was fought in the Rust Belt. It was fought in the “neutral zones”…
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THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS HAS RUN OUT. I used to be hard to find. Now I’m an open book. For decades, the rule was simple: “Keep your mouth shut”. We were the Secret Seven. We moved in the shadows between Erie, Buffalo, and Cleveland . If you were looking for me back then, it usually…
THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE RUST BELT UNDERWORLD “If Murphy can’t fix it, we’re all in trouble.” THE ELEVATOR PITCHThe Book: One Man Crime SpreeThe Genre: True Crime / MemoirErie, Pennsylvania was the “Switzerland” of the American Mob, a neutral zone exactly 100 miles between the crime families of Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo . Operating…
You saw the movie. You know the bomb. But you don’t know what happened when the hitman came home for Sunday dinner. You’ve seen the movies. You’ve seen Danny Greene, the Celtic warrior who laughed at the Mafia, get blown to pieces in a dentist’s parking lot in Cleveland . You’ve read about the Cleveland…
WELCOME TO THE SPREE “Mr. Murphy, on paper you appear to be… A ONE MAN CRIME SPREE.” – The Honorable Judge Penny Wolfgang, NY Supreme Court, 1985 Latest Murph NewsTimothy “Murph The Surf” Murphy is giving his testimony at Southtowns Christian Center in Lake View, NY on November 30th, 2025 at 10am service. You can…
Rogues Gallery Jimmy “JR” Russell: The Mentor “If you’re gonna do it, you’re gonna do it right.” The man who started it all. A legend in Lackawanna and Erie, JR was an original “OG” who spent 27 of his 57 years in prison because he refused to rat. He was a chess master in a…
One Man Crime Spree The true story of the “Secret Seven,” the last of the Goodfellas, and the Kid who survived the crash. In 1985, Judge Penny Wolfgang looked over her glasses in the New York State Supreme Court, thumbed through a two-inch thick FBI jacket, and told me I better have brought my toothbrush.…