Tupac was shot and killed on the Vegas strip in 1996, but the police made no arrests for 27-years - why not? The fourth season of my podcast - CrimeWaves - that I do with my students at the University of New Haven. We are taking a look at a number of famous cold cases. We start with the murder of Tupac Shakur. He was, at that time, one of the biggest recording stars in...
The connections between legal and illegal bookmakers - in a criminal sports gambling network featuring NFL, MLB athletes/coaches, the Mob and the royalty of Las Vegas betting bosses. Scott Sibella is Las Vegas royalty. The former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MGM Grand has virtually no equals in the city of gambling. There might be a few withered ghosts of eccentric billionaires like Howard Hughes, Sheldon Adelson or Steve Wynn floating around the corporatized towers of “sin city” - scrubbing away germs...
Stephen Paddock and the aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting It has been over-two weeks since Stephen Paddock went into a Las Vegas hotel room, took out 19 automatic machine guns and shot hundreds of people enjoying a country music concert in front of the hotel. In a 10-minute spree, Paddock killed 59 people and injured over-two-hundred others - some of them critically. Since that time, the U.S. media has been full of articles denouncing gun laws, postulating about Paddock’s mental...
