It's A Crime With Margaret Mclean

On the first hour learn about crime and policing in the post WWI period of high unemployment, the Irish Rebellion, and America's Red Scare with James Redfearn author of The Rising At Roxbury Crossing. Also the Drew Peterson trial, mafia secrets, and another unsolved rewards case with Max Cannon. On the second hour, ex-mafia man Mark Silverman Rogue Mobster: The Untold Story of Mark Silverman and the New England Mafia chronicles the inside story of the Boston mob wars of the 1990’s when over two dozen gangsters were killed in a vicious war for control of the Boston underworld. Rogue Mobster is told in the words of Mark Silverman, an outsider from Medford who got inside the mob and became an integral part of the ensuing war. His account is the first-ever inside glimpse into what went on at the street level, why people were killed, and what the stakes were. Silverman grew up in the shadow of Whitey Bulger, Howie Winter, Raymond Patriarca and Jerry Anguilo, bosses of Boston’s most infamous crime families.