“Breaking Bad” gets permanent display at Mob Museum

Purchase Museum Admission The line on which the title of Breaking Bad is based comes during the television show’s pilot…


Did Frank Matthews get away with it?

Written: February 3, 2016 It was the first week of January 1973. Frank Matthews and his young girlfriend had just…


San Francisco crime boss ‘Shrimp Boy’ Chow convicted of racketeering and murder

The two-month federal racketeering trial of Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, alleged boss of a San Francisco organized crime group, ended…


Author disputes Mafia witness testimony in Lufthansa robbery case

Written: January 6, 2016 —  Scroll to the bottom for a story update On November 12, in a stunning upset for the…


FIFA executives Blatter and Platini banned from soccer for eight years

Check out The Mob Museum’s interview with journalist Andrew Jennings from our Video Vault When lame-duck FIFA President Sepp Blatter…


Slaying of singer Barbara McNair’s Mob-connected husband in Las Vegas remains a mystery since 1976

Who killed Rick Manzie, husband of popular singer and actress Barbara McNair, in the couple’s Las Vegas home 39 years…


Nevada gas chamber chair goes on display

Jesse Bishop was ready to face death. The man convicted in the 1977 killing of a tourist during an armed…


Ten legacies of Prohibition

The end of Prohibition was perhaps the biggest political reversal in American history. The passage of the 21st Amendment to…


Best Bars in Downtown Las Vegas

Home to lavish resorts and grandiose casinos, Las Vegas has earned quite the reputation for its extravagant lodging and gambling…


Interview with journalist Andrew Jennings, who exposed FIFA scandal, is first entry in online video archive

When The Mob Museum considered who to interview for a planned video production on the bribery scandal embroiling top executives…