CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - “He just wanted to kill as many of these people as he could.” In the latest episode of the 19 Investigates true crime podcast series, Dark Side of the Land, investigator Kelly ...

CLEVELAND - Nov. 14, 1933: Danny Greene is born in Cleveland to Irish immigrants, John Greene and Irene Fallon. Danny Greene's mother died three days after his birth. Not long after, Greene is placed ...

The Dec. 2 Plain Dealer included two notable stories about criminal enterprises. The first was about the death of an old Mafia hit man (”A quiet end to a violent life: Mob enforcer dies in prison”), ...

For years, Kevin McTaggart fought in Cleveland’s mob wars, doling out violence amid the push to control the city’s rackets and drug pipelines. He served as Danny Greene’s close ally, made his money ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - This season on Dark Side of the Land we’re profiling organized crime and mob activity from the 60s, 70s and into the 80s in Northeast Ohio. Pete DiGravio was known as the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Danny Greene wasn’t just any mobster. The Cleveland union president-turned-gangster was a force of nature; a wild card in the deck of organized crime, blurring the lines ...

The Sugar Wars chronicles the story of the Lonardos, the first organized crime family in Cleveland, Ohio. On his deathbed, Angelo Lonardo comes out of hiding at 90 years old to tell the story of the ...

Reporting on organized crime requires tenacity and a lot of patience. Months of work often prove completely unproductive, results rarely come rapidly. But last week an investigation into the mob’s ...

CLEVELAND -- Even by tough, urban-crime standards it was a grisly attack: Up to 15 people chased a man, then kicked and beat him to death on the street. Before police arrived, one attacker urinated on ...

“Did I live in fear? No. Was I cautious? Absolutely… I never sold my former associates short — I knew they were very capable.” In a recent phone interview, former “made man” and capo for New York’s ...