Gangland Graveyard

Featuring first-hand accounts from FBI special agents, Gangland Graveyard explores the brave new world of federal investigation, a discipline that combines old-fashioned undercover work with cutting-edge forensics and complex financial sleuthing. The programme tracks the dramatic downfall of mobster "Big Joey" Massino, and delves into FBI efforts to cripple the Italian-America mafia. Gangland Graveyard focuses on the events of May 5, 1981, when three Mafia captains, Phil "Lucky" Giaccone, "Big Trin" Trinchera and "Sonny Red" Indelicato, were invited to an "administration meeting" that turned out to be ambush. The three captains were killed on the orders of "Big Joey" Massino as he made a play to take control of the Bonanno crime family. But what really happened that evening and what happened to the bodies of Giaccone and Trinchera? Forensic archeologists help dig up the stories behind the bodies, taking an unprecedented look into the grisly underworld of the mob, complete with vicious dog fights, revenge plots, takeovers and brutal murders. With the latest forensic techniques used by the FBI, including DNA testing and wound analysis, Gangland Graveyard finally gets the lowdown on the grisly events of that fateful night in 1981.