UPCOMING EPISODES

Mobster Joey Gallo rose from the slums of Brooklyn to take on some of the biggest Mafia dons of the 1950s and 1960s. With his gangster-chic style and high-society connections, Gallo inspired blockbuster movies and best-selling novels before meeting a dramatic end.

Notorious, heroin kingpin, Leroy "Nicky" Barnes, went from organizing one of the most powerful African-American heroin rings in New York to government informant. Out of spite, Barnes turned on his fellow associates and destroyed the drug trafficking empire he took so long to build.

"The Mob's Greatest Hits" explores six of the most notorious mafia killings of all time and the everlasting effects these murders had on organized crime.

This episode delves deep into the life and times of Joe "Mad Dog" Sullivan. A husband and father, a notorious Mafia hit man and the only person to ever escape from Attica Correctional Facility. When "Mad Dog's" phone rang, it usually meant someone was going to die. He was an Irish-American gun-for-hire, killing some 30 people, usually for New York's Genovese Crime Family. Sullivan tried to keep his dark secret from his family, but an addiction to drugs, betrayal, and murder would become his undoing. Sullivan is now sentences for three murders and will die in prison. He is not up for parole until 2082.

Mobster Joey Gallo rose from the slums of Brooklyn to take on some of the biggest Mafia dons of the 1950s and 1960s. With his gangster-chic style and high-society connections, Gallo inspired blockbuster movies and best-selling novels before meeting a dramatic end.

Notorious, heroin kingpin, Leroy "Nicky" Barnes, went from organizing one of the most powerful African-American heroin rings in New York to government informant. Out of spite, Barnes turned on his fellow associates and destroyed the drug trafficking empire he took so long to build.

"The Mob's Greatest Hits" explores six of the most notorious mafia killings of all time and the everlasting effects these murders had on organized crime.

This episode delves deep into the life and times of Joe "Mad Dog" Sullivan. A husband and father, a notorious Mafia hit man and the only person to ever escape from Attica Correctional Facility. When "Mad Dog's" phone rang, it usually meant someone was going to die. He was an Irish-American gun-for-hire, killing some 30 people, usually for New York's Genovese Crime Family. Sullivan tried to keep his dark secret from his family, but an addiction to drugs, betrayal, and murder would become his undoing. Sullivan is now sentences for three murders and will die in prison. He is not up for parole until 2082.

As leader of Murder, Inc., Albert Anastasia was one of the most vicious and feared mob bosses of the twentieth century. Italian-born Albert Anastasia jumped ship in Brooklyn in 1919, when he was 15 years old. Hardened by life's injustices, Anastasia killed a fellow longshoreman and was recruited by the mob while on death row. When the witnesses for his case turned up dead, Anastasia was released and began his long service to the New York mafia. As one of Lucky Luciano's top enforcers Anastasia led the Syndicate's hit team, the notorious Murder, Inc., believed responsible for as many as 1,000 murders across the country.

After New York's Bonanno mob family was nearly destroyed by an undercover FBI agent, Joseph "Big Joey" Massino brought them back to prominence and became the only major Mafia boss left on the streets...the "Last Don."

An Irishman through and through, Danny Greene's brazen, Celtic-warrior attitude brought him into fiery conflict with the Cleveland mafia throughout the 1960s and `70s. He began his criminal career as president of the Cleveland dockworkers union, quickly transforming the port into a lucrative racket--and himself into a feared Irish mobster. Eventually, he was forced off of the docks and wound up at the epicenter of organized crime. He became an enforcer for Shondor Birns, a local numbers kingpin, and learned how to assemble bombs. In one early, failed bombing attempt, he blew the roof off his own car. Thankful to be alive, he attributed his survival to "the luck of the Irish." This luck would serve Danny well as he began edging in on traditional mob rackets.

In the worst case of police corruption in NYPD history, two decorated cops, Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, betrayed their badges and moonlighted as hitmen for the Mafia. Eppolito was born into the mob life, with a father and uncle who were heavy hitters in the Gambino crime family. But instead of following his relatives into the Mafia, Eppolito decided to take a job on the police force. It was there that he met Stephen Caracappa and the two became partners. The combination would prove deadly when the two were recruited by Lucchese family underboss Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso to provide confidential information and carry out hits.

As leader of Murder, Inc., Albert Anastasia was one of the most vicious and feared mob bosses of the twentieth century. Italian-born Albert Anastasia jumped ship in Brooklyn in 1919, when he was 15 years old. Hardened by life's injustices, Anastasia killed a fellow longshoreman and was recruited by the mob while on death row. When the witnesses for his case turned up dead, Anastasia was released and began his long service to the New York mafia. As one of Lucky Luciano's top enforcers Anastasia led the Syndicate's hit team, the notorious Murder, Inc., believed responsible for as many as 1,000 murders across the country.

After New York's Bonanno mob family was nearly destroyed by an undercover FBI agent, Joseph "Big Joey" Massino brought them back to prominence and became the only major Mafia boss left on the streets...the "Last Don."

An Irishman through and through, Danny Greene's brazen, Celtic-warrior attitude brought him into fiery conflict with the Cleveland mafia throughout the 1960s and `70s. He began his criminal career as president of the Cleveland dockworkers union, quickly transforming the port into a lucrative racket--and himself into a feared Irish mobster. Eventually, he was forced off of the docks and wound up at the epicenter of organized crime. He became an enforcer for Shondor Birns, a local numbers kingpin, and learned how to assemble bombs. In one early, failed bombing attempt, he blew the roof off his own car. Thankful to be alive, he attributed his survival to "the luck of the Irish." This luck would serve Danny well as he began edging in on traditional mob rackets.

In the worst case of police corruption in NYPD history, two decorated cops, Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, betrayed their badges and moonlighted as hitmen for the Mafia. Eppolito was born into the mob life, with a father and uncle who were heavy hitters in the Gambino crime family. But instead of following his relatives into the Mafia, Eppolito decided to take a job on the police force. It was there that he met Stephen Caracappa and the two became partners. The combination would prove deadly when the two were recruited by Lucchese family underboss Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso to provide confidential information and carry out hits.