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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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…
COMING SOON: ONE MAN CRIME SPREETHE BOOK “Most of what follows is true… The rest is just how I remember it.” In the dying days of the American Mob, there was a “neutral zone”—Erie, Pennsylvania. It sat about 100 miles from Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo. It was a sanctuary city for thieves, hitmen, and safecrackers…
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…
Asphalt & Alleys: The Lay of the Land The Offices, The Battlegrounds, and The Cages. This is the map of “The Life.” The concrete and steel backdrop where it all went down. Erie, Pennsylvania: The Neutral Zone On the surface, it was “quiet little Erie,” just a sleepy waterfront town. But that was the…
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.…