True Crime Authors The Westies (Season 1, Episode 10)
TV Episode | 44 min | Documentary

True Crime Authors

The Westies (Season 1, Episode 10)

TV Episode | 44 min | Documentary

Adapted from the critically acclaimed true crime bestsellers, each author tells their infamous stories on-camera. Each story is told only from the author's perspective. Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Out of a partnership ...See moreAdapted from the critically acclaimed true crime bestsellers, each author tells their infamous stories on-camera. Each story is told only from the author's perspective. Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Out of a partnership between two sadistic thugs, James Coonan and Mickey Featherstone, the gang rose out of the inferno of Hell's Kitchen, a decaying tenderloin slice of New York City's West Side. They became the most notorious gang in the history of organized crime, excelling in extortion, numbers running, loansharking, and drug peddling. Upping the ante on depravity, their specialty was execution by dismemberment. Though never numbering more than a dozen members, their reign lasted for almost twenty years-until their own violent natures got the best of them, precipitating a downfall that would become as infamous as their notorious ascension into the annals of crime. Author TJ English covered their trial. Written by History Channel See less

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Name	Known for
T.J. English Self - Author, 'The Westies' Self - Author, 'The Westies' See fewer	Homicide: Life on the Street (1993)
Paul Castellano Self - Boss of the Gambino Crime Family (archive footage) Self - Boss of the Gambino Crime Family (archive footage) See fewer
Edna Coonan Self - Wife of Jimmy Coonan (archive footage) Self - Wife of Jimmy Coonan (archive footage) See fewer
Jimmy Coonan Self - Leader of the Westies (archive footage) Self - Leader of the Westies (archive footage) See fewer
Roy DeMeo Self - Soldier in the Gambino Crime Family (archive footage) Self - Soldier in the Gambino Crime Family (archive footage) See fewer
Mickey Featherstone Self - Member of the Westies (archive footage) Self - Member of the Westies (archive footage) See fewer	Network First (1994)
Nino Gaggi Self - Capo in the Gambino Crime Family (archive footage) Self - Capo in the Gambino Crime Family (archive footage) See fewer	Lynchpin of Bensonhurst: The Dominick Montiglio Story (2021)
Carmine Lombardozzi Self - Capo in the Gambino Crime Family (archive footage) Self - Capo in the Gambino Crime Family (archive footage) See fewer
Mickey Spillane Self - Boss of the Hell's Kitchen Irish Mob (archive footage) Self - Boss of the Hell's Kitchen Irish Mob (archive footage) See fewer
Ruby Stein Self - Loan Shark (archive footage) Self - Loan Shark (archive footage) See fewer
Brian Bogulski Danny Grillo (uncredited) Danny Grillo (uncredited) See fewer	Shameless (2011)
Matt Weber John Reilly (uncredited) John Reilly (uncredited) See fewer	Mattress Mann (2013)