Marriage, Murder, Malice & The Mob - Palos Park, Illinois

This week, in Palos Park, Illinois, a twisted murder plot comes to the surface after a high-powered attorney's spouse is pulled from a car trunk, exposing corruption, brothels, bribery, and cold-blooded murder, welcome to Small Town Murder. Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Small Town Murder! Yay! Yeah, indeed, Jimmy. Yeah, indeed. My name is James Petrogallo. I'm here with my co-host. I'm Jimmy Wiseman. Thank you, folks, so much for joining us today on another. Absolutely, bonkers edition of Small Town Murder. This is a crazy, twisted, it's just every dark thought you could have, it's all true in this one. It's the weirdest, weirdest show ever. We will get to all that. Add more. First, though, head over to shutupandgivememerder.com. Go ahead and get your tickets for live shows and come out and see us live shows. Just do it. Fine. If you've never seen a live show, we have to tell you, it is a comedy show. 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This is a comedy show, everybody, you know, this is what there's going to be murder because that's the name of the show, but there's also jokes here and you go, well, that sounds weird. How does that work? Actually, very easily, you'd be surprised how easily it actually works. All you have to do, it's really simple. I'm surprised everyone hasn't figured it out yet. All you have to do is we don't make fun of the victims or the victims' families because we're assholes, but we're not scumbags. That's it. That's it. If you understand that, you kind of understand where we're coming from and how this works. Thus, this is a more digestible way to do this. So much. It makes it a little lighter to make some jokes around the edge. Just someone being like, oh, then the body was dismembered. The corpse was cut in a, it's creepier like that. So we're as uncomfortable as you are and so we like to make some jokes around it and all that kind of shit. And plus we make fun of a murderer who cares if we make fun of a murderer. So yeah, fuck them exactly. So if that sounds good to you, holy hell, do you have a good crazy episode ahead of you? Let's go. If you think that your crime and comedy should never, ever go together, we might not before you, but I think we are. So check it out. No complaining later. That said, I think it's time, everybody. Let's sit back. What do you say here? Clear the lungs. Arms to the sky and let's all shout shout off and give me murder. Let's do this, everybody. Let's go on a trip. Shall we? Yeah. All right. We're going to Illinois this week. We are going to the Chicago burbs, baby. Not so bad. Not bad. Palo, Palo Spark, Illinois. And if someone says it's palos or I don't care. I really don't. That's a shit. I don't care. You can shove your. Illinois loves that, too. I love for you to be. El Dorado. Yeah. You can shove your sport pepper, adorn hot dog right up your ass. I'm not. I don't care. I'm not deal. I'm really not. So 35 minutes down. We love Chicago. By the way, it was one of our favorite. Great. It's one of the best cities in this. I love it. My wife's from there. Trust me. I'm pro Chicago, but calm down about the pronunciations. It's 35 minutes to Chicago. So just in the burbs there, 45 minutes to Gary, Indiana. If you want to see where Michael Jackson grew up, I guess I don't know. And an hour and a half to Spring Grove, Illinois, which was our last Illinois episode. And I believe our first, I think it was our first Netflix episode, the fire place poker one. Oh, yeah. Fireplace poker murder. I think that was the first one. So this is in Cook County. India code 708, little bit of history here, apparently early people that came here, built log houses and cut timber. Basically, just this place was just to get shit for Chicago. Oh, so they cut timber and all this stuff and loaded it on canal barges for Chicago to be used for the construction and fuel and that sort of thing. So that's, that's kind of how this place, you know, settled basically Abraham Lincoln style shit. There were some farms and cattle and chicken and pigs and goats and farmlands and, you know, all that kind of thing there, um, there was the I and M canal in 1848 that brought a lot of Irish and German immigrants to the area to work on the canal, because who's going to dig the canal? Who just got here? You're going to dig the canal back then. So you're up. You're up. Yeah. Then there was the subways. All of us were down there. You know, that's it's stick all the Italians in the sick, but I'm in the hole. Let them dig. That's just how it works. The population of early settlers were farmers, laborers, blacksmiths, woodcutters, that sort of thing. In the 1850s, Palos township was named Trenton, like New Jersey, but it was changed to Palos by the first postmaster. Don't know why he picked that, but that's what he picked. That's what he liked. That's it. They felt the need for a local government around 1914 and incorporated. And did all that kind of thing here. Their village here, they tried to, they were trying to, later on, they had a village aid plan where they wanted new roads and electricity. They were like, eventually, we'll get electricity. This was like in the 1914. Electricity, indoor plumbing, telephones. Wow. Amazing. They also realized that they didn't want this to become houses on top of each other. And to keep the aesthetic at the time, they had a law requiring one acre residential lots. So no lots. Everybody gets an acre. No lots work to be, they would not zone a residential lot smaller than an acre. I love it. Yeah. So everybody has room is how they worked it out. That's awesome. That's awesome. And also limited the industrial and business development at the rail, just to the railroad site and nothing else. Yeah. They were like, there was this. That's like early 1900s. They were doing this. Around the World War one time. Here's some reviews of the town because we don't know we've never been in this place before. Let's find out what other people think. Here's, it has 4.5 stars on niche. So I mean, that's a pretty good. Here's five stars, cozy, quiet, friendly and professional community with a minimal commercial with minimal commercial real estate. See, just like they designed it, exactly like that. Green landscapes with hills and outdoor forest preserves, including lakes, trails for hiking, horseback riding, running and skiing, plentiful outdoor activities for all seasons. The former artist community and history enriched gardeners abound committed residents to excellent schools, parks, first responders and small local businesses. Sure. Jesus. Here's four stars. It's a peaceful area with lots of wooded areas. I liked living where there's four seasons and many places to explore nature. It's like someone who moved away. I liked living there. Now I live in Arizona and sweat the whole year. Yeah. No good. Here's three stars. I've lived in Palace Park for several years now and I've grown to appreciate its charm over that time. Sure. It's nice to live in a peaceful suburb that's within walking distance of both small businesses and a big grocery store. Ooh, yeah. The town's also home to many forms of nature and forest preserves, which is really nice because I enjoy to be in a place with nature accessible and nearby. Yeah, accessible, but far, who am I gonna do with that? Nearby and inaccessible, inaccessible. Not able to use that. Terrible. There are parts of town that could be more walkable, especially in residential areas, but overall, my experience has been positive. It doesn't sound like there's a ton of sidewalks if you have those big, those big lots. It's a, yeah, it's nice. People in this town, 4859 people, small too, for being that far out of Chicago, and it's kind of, or that close to Chicago, it's kind of remained at this level of population. How'd they do it? For a long time, well, 'cause they can't build a bunch of apartments and condos and cram more shit in, so the population stays pretty steady, 'cause they only have so many lots, basically. Yeah. So it's nice, here is, it's about 52.3% women, so way more women than men for a town with almost 5,000 people in it, median age here, this is why there's so many women. It is 56.6, which is way above the national average, and that shows that there's a lot of retirement people, a lot of retirement age people here, and women live longer than men, so there you go. It's a lot of old people, always gonna be a lot more women. This place, 65% married, which is well above the national average. I mean, this is a, and it's expensive here, so this is a suburb with yards and your family and your kids, and that's it. It is only 5.2% of people are single with children here. That's extremely low. The race in this town, 85.9% white, 0.9% black, 1.1% Asian, 10.8% Hispanic. So there you go. 60% of the people here are religious, and I thought so. The high one there is gonna be Catholicism. Catholic, Chicago's a very Catholic town. I love it, yeah. 38.7% is our Catholic. So as we know, Catholics are the baptists of the Great Lakes, Chicago and area. Yeah, 1.1%, 1% Jewish. What? Oh my goodness, it's been so long. It's been so long, we can sing our song. Let's do it, Jimmy. ♪ Havva, Nagila, Havva, Nagila, Havva, Nagila ♪ ♪ Havva, Nagila, Havva, Nagila ♪ - I don't know the words. - Hey! - Hey! - All right, there we go. We did it. - That's wild, isn't it? - It's been so on. - It's strange. Here, unemployment, a bit high. Here, median household income here, also pretty damn high. 122,676. - They're doing great. - Yeah, it's 69,000 in the rest of the country. And the cost of living 100 being average here, it's only 105. So it's not that much higher, but the housing is the one that drives it up. Median home cost here, 428,200 bucks. Which is pretty high, that's expensive. So if we've convinced you, you've got a few bucks, you're looking for some green yards and some, I don't know, some place to run around. We have for you the Palo Spark Illinois real estate report. (upbeat music) Okay, house number one here that I factually, your average two-bedroom rental buckle up, by the way, $2,140, is your average two-bedroom rental. That is extremely expensive. - That's outrageous. - That's outrageous. It's normally about 12 in change in the rest of the country. House number one's a two-bedroom, two-baths of T-Bull for each and every B-hole technically, 1905 square feet. It is part of a house. It's a single, it looks like a single family house, but it's broken up into condos. It's weird as shit, really, really weird. So it's. - Everybody enters through the same door? - It looks like there's one front door. I don't know if there's a back entrance or a side entrance, but it's really strange. $320,000 for that. Just had a $10,000 price cut. But you're sharing a house with somebody there. Here's a nice house, three-bedroom, three-bath again, T-Bull for all your B-hels here. 1,200, six square feet, so not very big. 0.61 acres on the lot. So not a ton, but a decent amount. - It's more than, yeah. - Kind of a raised ranch-looking house, not bad, $499,900 for 1,200 square feet. - Oh my God. - That is a lot. And then finally, five-bedroom, seven-baths, T-Bull for each and every B-hull, and a couple neighbors here. 8,000 square feet. - Okay. - It's the kind of house that has the real, sharp, peeked roof. Is that a tutor style, I think, something like that. - A frame? - No, a frame, just fucking thing. It's got 15 A-frames in it. It's huge. There's fucking frames all over the place. - Just peaks all over. - Yeah. Huge house, 2.90 acres, built in 2014. It's very fancy-looking inside. - It's a new place, built like fucking practical magic? - Yes, exactly. Inside and out, beautiful place, huge place, 2,399,000 bucks for that, though. So there you go. Try to give some-- - 8,000 square feet sounds amazing. - That's a lot of square footage, yeah. If you got an argument with your spouse or whatever, you could not see each other for like two days, like not even a purpose, just by accident. Things to do here, okay. Not a ton. I mean, you could go to Chicago. It's right there. That's something to do. A lot of shit to do in Chicago. - There's all kinds of-- - I could name ya, just the sports alone. Never mind anything like that. - Yeah, two baseball teams. - They got a lot going on. - You can see a double header. - You can see in two different places. Things to do here, though. There's autumn in the park festival. - Sure. - And I was looking this up and they have food vendors, beer, wine, spirits. They have a sports cave. I don't know what's goes on in there. I don't know what happens in a sports cave. I really don't know. Your guess is as good as mine, what happens in there. But that's from six to 10.30 p.m. so they need four and a half hours for a sports cave. - Holy. - But from seventh, you won't be down there at past 7.30 'cause you'll be up watching the musical entertainment. We're apparently for three hours from 7.30 to 10.30 p.m. this band as a set, which sounds insane. - One band? - One band, Mike and Joe. Two guys. - Two guys. - Two dudes, Mike and Joe. They are known as quote, the Midwest's most renowned cover band. - Mike and Joe. - Mike and Joe, they play covers for three hours apparently. So they have to know a lot of covers for that. - That's a lot. I mean, there's a lot of music that's been made. - Wow. - So I guess you can just, just go and go and go. - And let's catalog, catalog, I guess. Then on Saturday, the parade begins. That's nice. There's face painting, there's kids' crafts. Sounds boring. Another sports cave for some reason. - What is that? - I don't know. The Rita Wiegel beautification awards presentation. I don't know. - The Wiegel? - W-E-G-E-L-E. Or W-E-G-E-L-E. Sounds like Wiegel. - Yeah, that's Wiegel, right? - Wiegel Wiegel sounds like that. And Rita is R-E-T-A. Too many ease. - What is going on? - Too many ease. - But when Rita Wiegel gives an award, you'd fucking show up and accept it. - You'd accept it. - You'd take it. From three to six PM, the musical entertainment will be five guys named Mo. That's the name of the show. - You got to find five guys named Mo. - First of all. - That's tough. It really is. - And then have them get along enough to play music. - They got a Maurice over here. You gotta, it takes a lot. - To be all Maurice, right? - I guess. I don't know if there's another name. Their description is The Mo's for three years in a row have been voted the Southlands Best of Readers poll, Best Live Entertainment for 21, 22 and 23. The Mo's. - The Mo's. The Mo's are a 100% all natural classic rock and roll band that delivers pure energy, heart and a lot of soul. The Mo's have a diverse repertoire and each Mo's show is a non-stop party. I don't know what is happening there, that is. - I hate them so much. - I don't like it at all. And then they're opening for ARA, A-R-R-A, all caps who just say they play, quote, "classic rock." - Abba. - No, yeah, I don't think that's classic rock, but they play. - No. - I doubt it. If you went on a classic rock radio station and said, "Where's the abba?" I think they go, "What are you talking about?" So that's all we know about them, A-R-R-A. So there's a parade with floats and civic groups and fire and police vehicles, horses, dogs, walkers, riders and community for this wonderful tradition. Anybody's welcome to the parade. Dogs can't walk if you can walk, drive your car, whatever you want to do. So there we go, crime rate here. What we're interested in. This is one of the lowest crime rates I've ever seen. Property crime is about a third of the national average. Which is two thirds low, very low. And then violent crime, murder, rape, robbery and of course assault, the Mount Rushmore of crime is less than one quarter of the average. Less than. It is extremely safe here. Lots of people with money that are doing well and I guess I heard each other less for some reason. - We got 8,000 square foot homes. - Yeah, you can. I mean, you go to your side, it's really easy to not hurt each other at that point. That said, let's talk about some murder that happened here and some wild shit. Okay, let's start at March 19th, 1982. All right, 2.30 p.m. A man named Alan Masters, who is a very prominent and high-powered attorney in these parts here. He calls the Cook County Sheriff's Department. Palo's Park is an unincorporated area so the County Sheriff's Department handles their shit. Now he's calling to file a missing persons report for his wife, Diane. He said that she was supposed to come home. Basically, she's supposed to be home about 13 hours ago. She should have been home about 1.30 in the morning and it's 2.30 p.m. and I'm still sitting here. So what does she do? We'll find out all about Diane here and where she was and everything like that. But this is the report. They said, quote, husband reports wife missing states he anticipated his wife is filing for divorce. She's supposed to file for divorce literally like the next day is when she had already talked or attorney told him that the filing was going down on Monday. States anticipated his wife is filing for divorce. States, she recently removed over $200,000 in jewelry from the residence. So that's part of the missing persons report here. So yeah, that's that's what's going on. He's given this report. He's sitting there with their daughter who's about five years old, almost five years old at this point, foreign change. And you know, sitting at the kitchen table with his daughter talking to the police here. He's done very well for himself. He's got $200,000 in jewelry. Yeah. Well, he's done very well for himself and we'll find out how to a lot of different avenues here. During this mid interview, the lieutenant shows up a lieutenant Keating as we'll talk about K E A T I N G. He shows up and lieutenant James Keating just arrives uninvited and unassigned. Nobody asked him to go there. He just shows up at Allen's house. He's a he's the commander of the vice squad. So why is a lieutenant who's the commander of a vice squad showing up to take a missing persons report at 230 in the afternoon? That's that's very routine stuff here. You show up every time a car gets broken into. Oh, my stereo that's solely. Where's the lieutenant of the vice, come where's the commander of the vice squad? Make sure you get your your paperwork in order. Jesus. Yeah. So apparently he just sat in on this this lieutenant and then, um, you know, Allen, the man who called the husband here, the lawyer, he says that there's a suspicion that his wife has been having an affair with what he called, I don't know who some professor from the college she works at. And he said, I don't know who, but she said, he said, you know, she's planning on filing for divorce this week. She took 200 K in jewelry and she's having an affair. So I think maybe they just took off together basically. So, you know, look into that. That's all I can think based. That's all he has here. So who are we looking for? Diane. We are looking for Diane with two ends. Uh, Diane, Georgia Turner Muller Masters. Both three last names. Well, yeah, well, Turner's her maiden name. Master Mueller is her name when Alan meets her because she's married when they meet and then Masters is his name. And Georgia is after her dad whose name is George for a middle name. So there you go. Uh, she's born June 26th, 1946 in Cook County. Uh, parents, George and Ann Marie. She has a brother named Randall or Randy as he goes by who's going to keep coming up in the story over and over and over again. Randy will not take no for an answer in a good way. Oh, Randy will have nothing shoved like swept under the carpet. And it's awesome. I love Randy. He will have he will take nobody's answers. He will say try again. That makes no sense. Come again. Yeah. Not having that shit. Nope. So Diane grew up in a lower middle class neighborhood in Franklin Park. Um, friend of hers from childhood described her as quote, extremely competitive and very bright in school. So we all remember that girl from elementary school, the one who was real smart and real driven to the grades. And, you know, that kind of thing. Um, she was the valedictorian of her eighth grade class at Lincoln grade school. Apparently, yeah. So she did that. She's very, she's very petite looking fine bone. She's always described as, you know, that kind of thing. She's blonde, thin faced, pretty and blonde and all that kind of thing. All right. And very smart. And, uh, has dreams of what she wants to do with her life. You know what I mean? Oh, um, so what she does here, she goes to Elmhurst College where she wants to become a writer. That's her goal is to be a writer. And instead, she marries a guy named Ronald Muller. Right. Instead of being a writer. And instead, she becomes a suburban housewife basically. Oh, that's it. Um, they don't have any kids. And after three years, by the way, Ronald is in Vietnam at this point. Oh, Jesus. And after three years, she divorces him while she's in Vietnam. Well, he's there. He's in Vietnam. She divorces him, which is kind of a shitty thing to do. I'm going to be honest. You can wait till people stop shooting at him at least. Can you at least do that? Yeah, I know you're busy, but if you could sign this paper, I really want to take most of our stuff and not see you anymore. Is that good with you? Oh, yes. I really like to move out of this house while you can't say, don't take that. Yeah, exactly. I'm taking all the records. All the final is mine. So that's, that's, it's not even like prison's one thing. He didn't stop me. It's said to President someone to wash in there. It's kind of on you. You left them pretty busy. He's at war for Christ's sake. And we at least wait till he gets home from the war. Possibly the hardest one. No, but a bad one. World War one was at the time. Well, at the time that was going on. World War one was the most brutal. Hard fucking chemical weapons and trench warfare. And that shit was brutal. I mean, civil war brutal with the slow velocity musket balls and shattered. That was bad. But they knew which direction to fire. Kind of. Yeah, I mean. And I was just like firing at trees and hoping true. The right one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But still that World War one was a fuck man. That was the worst. Yeah, that was because we had everybody who knows anything about World War one knows this. But if we had like new technology, like we could really blow the shit out of people. But they had the exact same warfare tactics as if it was 1840 and we were shooting muskets at each other. So in a trench and blow each other up is what we did. And then mustard gas and all that shit. That's crazy. At least they didn't deal with that. That's pretty bad. I mean, there was napalm. The, you know, cancer got caused from other shit. Agent R, engine, all that. But still not, I don't know if it's bad as World War two or World War one or two. All war is bad. All war sucks. Yeah. Yeah, we're really back. We're really parsing. We're really parsing nothing here. So 19. That was she got married in 66. Now she in 69. She wants the divorce in January here. Her friend said when she first got married, she seemed very strong, wild and independent, but also very vulnerable. He said she wanted someone to take care of her look out for her. And she struck out in that on that count. So January 69 is when she goes for the divorce. Well, Ronald's too busy fighting the Vietcong to protect her. So, you know, she walks into an attorney's office in the suburbs and the attorney is Alan Masters, who is her future husband. He's born March 9, 1935. So he's a little older than her about 11 years older. His practice was criminal defense, traffic, divorce, whatever. You got law problems. I can handle it. Suburban lawyer basically. They got to kind of take about cast a wide net. So he does all of that. Now at the time, he is also married to a woman named Benita and has two sons as well. So he has a whole family going on here when she walks into the office. And I can't imagine that she's the first woman who's ever walked in looking for a divorce. So you know, this must be something special. If this is the one he goes freaks out for, I guess. So anyway, they start having an affair pretty quickly. Really? Yes, which is obviously highly unprofessional for a divorce lawyer to do. Extremely unprofessional. I mean, he's very well versed in how to end that so that he can go get stray if he wants. So he's not going to do that. No, because there's also the public image part of this. Of wife, two kids, civic leader, kind of a guy. And you know, divorcing your wife and kids in 1969 was still considered a little, you know, suspect out in the burbs, you know what I mean? This isn't fucking Greenwich Village over here. This is the the acre, lots, suburbs of Chicago. This is Catholic, isn't it? This is, well, it's at the way. It's mid-Western values type of deal, you know what I mean? We hadn't infected it yet with our good values from the shores of Get a God-bye. divorces you idiots if you don't like each other. So he comes at her hard, which sounds gross. I don't mean that in a gross way, but he is sending her like, this is like in a movie, like he's sending her like, he'll just get a knock on the door and it's some delivery person with like a big box that has like a some fancy dress in it and shit like that. I'm a married man married, jewelry, sending to her house calls her daily, sends her flowers every day. Oh my God. I mean, full court press of I want a bang this broad is what this is. This is what the hell. Uh, yeah. So, and this is Diane like, I mean, she was impressed with this. Her husband at this point of guy and fucking Vietnam. I don't think he's making much money. So I don't think he's sending anything. No, and this, this guy he's like, wow, this is crazy. And she knows that he's a successful guy drives a big car. He's an impressive fellow around town. And, uh, you know, then she starts hanging out with him a little bit. He's, you know, got fancy things and goes to fancy parties and shit. And she's like, this isn't bad. So for several years, she's just his mistress, basically. They just have an affair. Um, her divorce goes through in 72. And then they holy shit. They just keep having an affair, basically. And, uh, you know, just don't let my wife see it as the whole thing. And then we're fine. Uh, that's a wild, uh, for years. And people do that still. I realize that that's fucking nuts. If you're not in the mafia, I don't know how you pull that off. I really don't. You have to be, you know, I mean, if you're in the mob, those guys, they have to have to go, mar it's a whole different thing. But they leave all the time. That's what it is. They leave and you know better than ask him where he's going. Cause it's probably for some crime shit. So when they say, you don't want to know, I got to go right now. You go, oh, Jesus, you got to take, you might be hijacking a truck or fucking a Russian stripper like Tony Suprat. I wanted to get a blow job on his boat. You never know. That's the thing. So, but this guy has some, some fucking sack of him, some fucking ball, some suburban fucking door. And he's like a, if you see this guy, he is not like a real handsome, he's a fat fuck with a big walrus mustache. I mean, he's a, he's got a big fat mustache on his big fat body. He looks, he looks like if you made a human being out of the city of Chicago, it would be him. Just kind of chubby. He's had a couple of Polish dogs and hurling dick all over town, unbelievable. And Diana's like a pretty young woman. Like this is crazy. What is that? When she walked in the office, she was 23 and blonde and hot and like, he, he hooks her up. And he's in his 30s and, and very fat. And that's what fucking money can do is maybe back then. I don't know. So her friend from schools said Diane never had much money and knew the value of a dollar because she came up hard. He also described her as a hard worker, but couldn't recall her having a job ever. So I don't know how you know. That's the funniest thing ever. Well, she was a really hard worker. Oh, where'd she work? Oh, I don't remember having a job. I just think she ever did. She had a fire spirit burning inside of her. I could tell it was right here. She wanted so bad to be employed. She really did. I mean, I think if she had a job, she would have totally been employed. She'd have got promotions and raises. I could see it happening. Why the fuck would he say that? It's the craziest thing ever. Sounds like trying to say something nice. I'm not sure. Oh, it's so funny. He then said when she met Alan Masters, she didn't have much money and was looking for security. Here she was bouncing off a failed first marriage and he represented security, but not really because he's married. That's the least amount of security. He could dismiss you tomorrow. And you have no recourse. It's like you can take half and get alimony. You have nothing. You can just go back to my wife, not doing this anymore. She was a hell of a truck. He's artist. I don't think she even went to it. I actually, I don't even think she said that. Like, Christ, man, I'm telling you, hell of a dunker. She played basketball. I never heard of her doing it. Okay. I don't think she even knew it. I don't know. I don't think she could dribble, but I just, all right. She said all of a sudden, she had a new car, nice things to wear. He's buying her a car. Yeah, he's treating her like a mob boss treats a good mod, put her up in an apartment, get her a fucking car, get her nice clothes, shutter the fuck up. Bonita has no idea. I guess not. He's very busy. This guy is always doing things. She has no idea what he's doing out there. I don't think it seems like for me to car for somebody in your spouse doesn't know. You use your law firms money. He owns a law firm. He knows how to hide money. I mean, especially in the 70s, too, a lot of times, women didn't even look at the bank statements in the 70s. If we're allowed, we're in a lot. So I mean, if the guy controlled the money, he controlled the money. And she just was like, well, there's money when I go grocery shop. And I guess that's good money for to pay the little league fee. I mean, that's, that's what it was back then. It's crazy. So before long Diane was telling all their friends that basically Alan owned her, he was, she would say in like a playful way, I guess. Diane's friends thought that Alan and her were married all the way back from 1974 on. She didn't tell them, oh, by the way, he's married and has two fucking kids. They just see them out together and assume they were married. What exactly are they going to say when they see him in the meat department with his wife? That's high. Oh, hey, who's this? Is this your, who the fuck sister? That's nice. You're grocery shopping with your sister at 40 years old. That seems normal. So she, that's what they thought. Alan still have obviously had the family here in 1974. There we go. She's pregnant. Whoops. God damn it. Whoops. Now, very good timing because about three years earlier, this might have been a problem, but 74 is very good timing for that. Diane. Basically, she goes to Alan and hopes that this will get him to, to leave his wife now. But instead, he forced her to get an abortion. It's cheaper than a car. He's like, Oh, no, no, no, we can't have this. I'm married with a, I got a friend. Yeah. I can hide a lot of things, but you're giant belly and then a baby's going to be very much harder to hide than this. People are real hard to find hide when they're, you know, Christmas happens. Yeah. Why isn't daddy here? That shit's going to be fucked up. It's tough. It's tough. Oh boy. Diane was very, very mad about this, about being forced to have an abortion because she thought this would take the relationship to the next step, not make her feel like some, you know, street trash who got, you know, knocked up and some guy threw a couple of bucks at her and said, go take care of yourself, sweetheart. You know, yeah, get that, get that sucked out of you. What did I go? All right. So Diane said, I am going to end this relationship unless you do, unless you leave too thick. That's not actually on the list of things to do. That's actually not. You think it would be, right? That should be number one. No, no, no, it might be three or four, but the first two are much different than that. They have nothing to do with. What? Don't be married. You know, fucking maybe be with me all the time. Single and available are two, right? No, they're not actually, they are by me a house. And put another baby in me. What? Yeah. Knock me up by me a house. And then I'll take you back and then it'll feel like you really care because you bought me a house and now you're letting me have a, you want to have a baby with me. If he leaves the wife, he's going to need a place to stay. There you go. That'll sort of one thing. That all you got to do is stay on it until he's fucking limp. That's it. You'll get your dream number two. And it's coming through. But he doesn't have to do anything. I'm a better woman than she is. That's right. So now, so she's got her, yeah. Packadillos as well here. And Alan buys her a bracelet that's engraved in a way that kind of fits here. I love you, Angel slash devil. That's what it says. So yeah, these two have a very interesting relationship. I would say this is a fascinating relationship. Man, I think it's July of 77. They have a daughter together. So she did it. He buys her a house. He puts a fucking kid in there. That's what he, she wanted. It's a daughter named Andra. I was going to say I won't give the name, she's older than me. So it's like giving it. She's, she's almost 50. I think it's okay. So 1979, Diane takes off. She's had enough. Oh, he won't leave his wife. And she's pissed about it. Yeah. She took Andra and moved in with her brother, Randy and his wife, Kathy. And she told her brother that by the way, part of the reason I'm coming here, not just because he won't leave his wife. It's because he beats the shit out of me also. What the fuck? Yeah. I don't know what other, I mean, come on. There's a lot of guys with money. Okay. There's plenty of, especially if you don't care if they're fat and have a stupid mustache. Right. You could put it with some. Yeah. If you're pretty and you don't need to put up with some fucking asshole, just because he has money. You'll find somebody else far too much in my bag. That is way too, any amount of beating is too much to put off, too much to put on. But I mean, fat and a mustache is bad enough. Fat mustache with celery salt stuck in it from his fucking dogs. No, no, no deal with that celery salt. RC Cole is stuck in that fucking thing. No one wants to build that. That's all of the goddamn things. All of his whole car is full of poppy seeds. You don't know any idea why. So that's what she says. Andy hits her. He's been beating her up and so she stays for some days at her brother's house. Alan ends up tracking her down at her brother's house and, you know, oh, it's going to be different and everything's going to be beautiful. And I promise to divorce Benita. I'm going to divorce Benita and I'm going to do it within the next year. It's going to happen. Okay. I'm going to divorce my wife and on top of that, that's down the road. But right now, me and you are going to the LaCosta spa and Carl's bad California, too. It's time for your pedicure and massages and. Five star desert retreat. Let's do it. That's where bruises heal best. That's obviously the best. That's where they would send tubercula people back in the day. So why not you? Yeah. So that's what goes on. Now March 24th and 5th, Alan has busy times here. Alan and Benita's divorce becomes official on March 24th, 1980. So he followed through. He did it. He did it. He divorced Benita. He really wanted this one. He would have stayed with her forever if Diana allowed it. That's the thing. She'd have played ball. That's the thing about dudes will let that situation sit for as long as we can keep those plates spinning. And then it's like, oh, fuck if I want to keep any plates spinning, I got to stop and let the few crash and save these two. So the day after the divorce is final, Diane and Alan had on down in the old Justice of the Peace there. Oh my God. And get married. He gave her a house. He gave her a car. He gave her a child. He took her to Carl's bed. That's one of the most beautiful places. Oh, yeah. Expensive too. And then won't give her a wedding. Nope. The next day they want to get, because she, well, that's on, she's okay with that. She wants to get married as soon as possible. Right now. So it's the day after he got divorced. So she's like, you're married. I don't need, I don't need a dress and a reception. Yep. And she said, quote to her friend, the way I live and the way I dress and I get married in a pair of blue jeans. She dresses very fancy, everything's fancy, but she gets married very casual at the courthouse there. They have a, a weird honeymoon apparently. They have a honeymoon cruise on the Queen Elizabeth, too. Was there a honeymoon or a big cruise ship, I guess. It's a, we're just like out in the, on the Atlantic. I don't know where they went, but they did, that's the thing on a cruise, a cruise vacation. Yeah, they probably took a plane down the floor to get on it or some shit. But the weird part is, Alan invited another couple to go with them on their, on their honeymoon on the cruise, which is really, we tried at it home, everybody. Hey, I invited, it's like I'm born with you. They invited Bob and Susie to come over along, too. Is that cool with you? What? No, it's our fucking honeymoon. I don't have dinner with these people. Guy, you drink beer with in the garage, no, we're not staying in the same, state room with them or anything. They have their own room. We have our own room. Yeah. No, I'm not dealing with these people. But if you want to do some of that boring shit up on the Lito deck, I'm going to go hang with you. Yeah. I got a check for you to do it with. And I'm going to get drunk with this guy. So that's what goes on, 81 and 82 here, Diana's a lot going on in her life. She is elected as a trustee on the board of the Maureen Valley Community College in Palo's Hills. And she's active in a bunch of shit, politics, church stuff, battered women. It's all happened. Right. Yeah. She's one of the founders of the crisis center here, South Suburbia, yeah, South Suburbian crisis center, which is a shelter for battered women, organized in 1978 as a telephone hotline that Diane helped run out of her kitchen. She was helping with it. At the same time as she was running away, so she knew what was up. She knew what she, yeah, if you knew what the consequences were, she knew everything. She knew, hey, that they're not going to stop doing it. She knew all the things, but she's still money, you know? So she, she did all of that and was a real big volunteer here. She served as that and she served as vice chairman of the community college governing board, also a volunteer for recording for the blind. How nice. That's, they do like books on tape and record stuff for the blind. Oh, she sits. Yeah. And just reads, wow. Yeah, there used to be a lot of people, big volunteer organization that would, there's a, if you look, there's a gigantic, enormous, massive archive of audio books from recordings for the blind. Wow. Giant fucking massive thing that was not like a lot of bull or whatever, but just done that. Holy shit. The other's an archive out there somewhere you can find shit tons of books because I mean, if you're blind, you don't want to have, well, there's 20 books we can read and that's it. That would suck. Right. Now, I mean, you've got thousands of them, but that just comes because of, because of the the apps and stuff that it's, yeah, they got, they got two, they just, we don't have to do it. It just transcribes itself. Yeah. My tattoo artist is deaf and he loves it because he can, he can read it while, but he's like, they're fucking long, man. He can chop them. That's a lot to read. Yeah. These are, this isn't meant to be a fucking text based endeavor. That's why, if it was, it would be a lot shorter show, really what I can't really do this while I'm tattooing because no, that's kind of, that's hard. But this, this would be, you know, blind people would go and they'd have all sorts of books that they could check out. It's awesome. That's cool. They said, she also worked for the state, in the state treasureer Jerome Kazantino's campaign office during his unsuccessful bid to become Secretary of State. She got into politics a little bit here. She, and Alan's pretty politically connected as we'll find out. She worked for one of the party's statewide candidates and she started thinking about maybe she could go into politics herself someday, either as a candidate. Or maybe like a campaign organizer or something on a higher level there. But otherwise, things seem to be going well. She's got a big house. She's got jewelry, nice clothes. She has a 1978 yellow and white, which I know how those two tones go on those Cadillac, 78 Cadillac, Coop Deville. Hell yeah. I know that because my grandmother had the exact same car and two tone green, two tone metallic green with dark green leather seats. It was the craziest thing. She kept it in the fucking garage all the time. It only came out on like special occasions and it was like waxed, like gray. There was a big difference between vinyl and leather. Like people had, I mean, you had vinyl, vinyl tirasies, you had leather and tiras. You sat down in a Cadillac and you had, oh boy, is that different. Oh, the back seat is still nicer than any couch I've ever had. It was amazing. These leather seats versus the bullshit leather they put in cars today, it's an entirely different leather. Oh, fuck. I love an old fan. That's so crazy. This was a Coop Deville license plate, DGM 19. So that's what she drove around, a big yellow and white Caddy. You could see from space and with jewelry popping and all that kind of shit, she's doing okay. So everything seems perfect, correct? Doing all right. This is what she wanted. Everything should be fine. Well, not particularly. Dylan's up to some other shit besides just doing law firm stuff and coming home to his wife and young daughter here from about 1970 until June of 1982 and we'll find out what happens. Then there's the Willow Springs Police Chief Michael Corbett, Masters bribed him for a long time. This guy openly happily took bribes to steer people that were arrested, ticketed or investigated by the Willow Springs Police Department to his law office as clients. So they'd say I want a lawyer and they go, I mean, call this guy and they give him his car. There's a business car to the man I know. That's what they would do. They would suggest which is absolutely you're not allowed to do that as a cop. So unethical. Not only can you not give legal advice, you can't guide them to what lawyer to get. That's crazy. So that's not good at all. This guy took kickbacks for that the whole fucking time and he ran similar kickback arrangements with other cops around the area. And this is what he would do to get them in his good graces and all the cops would do anything for him. He would do their divorces for free. And if there's one thing every cop has, it's at least one divorce at least a lot. Have you ever seen a cop movie? They're all on their third or fourth wife, all of them. Yeah, they're all talking about my ex wife, my ex, my ex ex, all of it. So my ex got my pension, my ex got this. I'm living in a shitty apartment, my ex. So that's a trope in a movie is to have the divorced, you know, cop who's all depressed. And that's what he would do is the no fee divorces for police officers, which obviously would take up some of his time and you have a loss there, but you'd gain it back in spades and waves from all the clients he got. Then there's even less legal shitty was doing than that. That's very illegal, but this is like it gets crazy. Okay, from 72 until August of '84, which is two years ago. years beyond where we are in this timeline. Masters here, Alan Masters, served as a middleman through which illegal bookmakers in Cicero paid off a Lieutenant James Keating. Do you remember his name? Yeah. Lieutenant James Keating is the guy who showed up in the middle of a missing person's report besides being the commander of the vice squad. He shows up in a living room. Taking money to pay him off? He's a bagman essentially. He's the middleman. Yeah. So illegal bookmakers pay Masters money because they can pay a lawyer money and then the lawyer takes it to the cop and pays him off. So the vice squad doesn't break, come down on their gambling ring alone on their jackshacks, their brothels, their backroom gambling spots, all that shit. And this is all from the mob. This isn't from this is this is old time too. This is 70s Chicago. This is the outfit. Yeah. This is literally the Spalotros as we'll talk about. If you don't know, they are the Spalotros. If you've ever seen Casino, Joe Pesci is Nikki Spalotro who are Spalotro, who is one of the brothers that helps their bad guys. They're really they're really no shit serious guys who killed tons of people. So okay, he's doing this and there's payoffs to judges, to that Alan is a middleman for payoffs for judges. There is he's knows tons of mob connected figures and even as we'll talk about has an ownership interest in a Chicago brothel Alan does as well. He gets brothel money. This fucking guy. There's a bunch of strip clubs that front for prostitution that are really, you know, for prostitution, credit card laundering schemes as well as we'll talk about. So basically it's just so they could run it through and it wouldn't come back as being at the strip club. It'll come back as being at, you know, Joe's family diner or some shit, you know what I mean? That's I will pop up. So it shows respectable dinners rather than that. Chop shops. He's involved with he's involved in stealing cars stolen cars chop shops as we'll talk about. There's a place where they send cars away for insurance payouts and that's every like every any town that bottom rung shit that's that's meat and potatoes mob shit though. That's how they make money. That's that's their meat and potatoes. But he's doing all of it. Alan is a middleman for all this shit. He's a middleman between the cops and the mob. He's a middleman between cops and clients. It's a crazy fucking crazy scenario. And these guys too, like this is this is normal. If you get involved in one of those worlds, it's dangerous enough that somebody can fucking them over. Even if you're not fucking them over, he's getting involved in so many of them. He was spinning plates at home. This is so much more dangerous. Think about think about at the time he was doing all that shit in his personal life. Yeah. I was describing he's got a chicken. She's pregnant into my wife and this one and she wants a new car. And he's doing all this shit on the side and has a legitimate law firm on top of that where he handles normal clients and does normal lawyers shit that normally takes up most of people's day. He's a bar bar. It's a wild lawyer, a legitimate lawyer, legitimate practice lawyer with a tax return. Taking all the chances in the world. It's crazy. It's fucking insane, dude. I don't know. It's insane. It's just the crazy. Never be that dude. It sounds so exhausting. This is exhausting. This is horrifying. Can you imagine that? Exhausting. And then at the end of the day when you're ready to take a nap, somebody could come in and kill you or need you to go down to the park. You got to go here and give fucking some guy named Momo a bag of money. Like what is happening right now? Go get money to all the models. Yeah. All those moes too. So that's what's going on here. Now let's find out about some of the other players. And the car thing, by the way, very common, the insurance scam on a car. There is countless farms in upstate New York that have so many cars buried in there that you would have no fucking I growing up. We knew there were places to go. You knew who to talk to when there's a guy will, you know, for 500 bucks, you could dump your fucking car in his place and he'll bury it with his big bulldozer and then you'll get the full insurance payout and all that shit. Nothing'll grow there for a while. It's extremely common. And there's these people have hundreds of acres in the middle of nowhere. They don't fun care. No one's suspecting them. They've all gotten away with it for decades. You know, I mean, I know of spots where they are not telling anybody, but they're there. You don't have the cord and it's off the top of your head is I do. I'm just not telling anybody exactly. I mean, they haven't this is from 20 years ago, but still still I'll tell you, but no, I can't say it on Netflix. That's might be a little much. So now this lieutenant James D Keating, who we talked about, he is a cook county sheriff, a lieutenant and commander of the vice squad, like we said, he joined the cook county sheriff's police in 1964. So he's a long time officer as well. He rose to lieutenant commanded the first vice squad and later the criminal intelligence unit. Oh, that's how dumb they are as they put the most corrupt guy in charge of the intelligence unit or says it all. He is to look to get involved in that. Yeah. So he is the guy responsible for policing gambling and prostitution and is completely on the take 1000%. So there's also a guy named Michael Corbitt. Michael Corbitt is the Willow Springs Police Chief Corbitt with an eye, COR PITT. Willow Springs Police Chief, he's born in in 1944. They're all about the same age. They're all about 45ish these guys. So now Michael Corbitt, a little bit about him, he's got an interesting background. He's from a poor Irish family in Chicago here, went to Catholic school at age nine. Then he went to public school after that. And he said that he didn't realize how poor his family was when he was going to Catholic school because everyone had the same uniform on school. We all look the same. But at ninth grade, he went to public school and then he went, oh, wow, I'm really poor. Mike closed suck. Yeah. So that was humiliating. He turned into a big shoplifter to get better stuff. And then somehow, even though his name is Michael Corbitt and he's super Irish, he started running with an Italian street gang at the time and ran errands around the social clubs. He's basically like their little Henry Hill type of guy except a little lower. Yeah, he run errands and he was a guy that you could trust basically a kid that could be trusted to shut the fuck up. So that's it. That's all you needed really. As a teenager, he made deliveries also for a company that supplied slot machines and gambling gear. So this is illegal as fuck. He's doing deliveries of highly illegal things. When he was still a teenager, he ran a sonoco station at 56th and Harlem that was run by the mafia, the gas station was a mafia front. And he ran it. They put him in charge of it. Yeah, go take care of that for you, will you? Yeah. So he would rent parking spots to hijackers and people who would need to stash stolen trucks for the day. That's why they have the gas station because it's got the bays. So if you need to stash stolen cars, they'll put them in there, put the thing down and that's that. So and they get paid through that. Put it up on the lift and it looks like it's getting an oil change. That's it. Put it up there. And he just put it in the garage behind the thing. It's not, not to be found at that point. Um, at that gas station is where he met a mo, a big mo, maybe the biggest of them all at the time. Sam Momo Giancana, who is, he was the fucking boss of Chicago period. I mean, Giancana was a big fucking major, major mob figure. I mean, like he was pretty much boss of the Midwest outside of New York. He was the most powerful guy, basically. Maybe a couple of those Philly guys, but that's similar. Um, so he's a fucking big famous legendary figure, Momo here. Uh, now Giancana liked Michael Corbett, like the cut of his jib here. He introduced him around. And this is my kid. This is my guy. So everybody and everybody in the entire Chicago underground knew this kid is directly connected to Sam fucking Giancana. Don't fuck with him. He is bulletproof. His dad is not the, uh, police chief yet. His dad, Michael Corbett, he's the guy that's going to become the police. He's going to become the police chief in Willow Springs. This holy shit. Yeah. So this is the, I mean, you can watch good fellows and watch, you know, Robert De Niro and then take him around. This is Henry. This is the kid Henry and they all know that's that. This is the boss of the mafia. That would be like if Carlo Gambino was taking Henry Hill around going. This is my guy. This is my guy. Like it is, he is bulletproof above everything. Um, Giancana liked him, introduced him around and, uh, Corbett, basically, uh, you know, he used him as a protector. I mean, Sam was a protector. Then Giancana, um, does this. This is amazing. He comes up to Michael and he says, hey, I got you want it. I got a job for you, Mikey, legit job. I need you to take, and he goes, yeah, anything, you know, whatever. And he says, I need you to become a police officer in Willow Springs. There's a job opening. I got it for you. So he got all he got to do is go down there and it's yours. Slap the back. Do I feel like a test? No, that would feel like they expect me to be a very corrupt cop that does things for them. Wow, I'd be terrified to say yes, because I feel like there was no job and that he's asking me to go be a cop and that go be go. No, he knows right away why he's telling, yeah, this is all, I mean, how the hell did the mob boss get him a job as a cop? This is all on the off. He knows it. Yeah. So I mean, I'd be afraid they'd kill me. Yeah. I don't want that. I mean, that's probably in the back of your mind all the time, but he hasn't done anything to warrant killing at this point, you know, he's done everything for them. So he got a job there and he said that this is Corbett said this later, quote, but he said that Sam Giancana told him, quote, but just remember, kid, don't forget who your friends are. Don't forget who did this for you. In other words, you're going to do things for you're going to do lots of things for us and you're going to look the other way on a whole bunch of shit. Oh, yeah. You're doing me a favor by becoming a cop. So yeah, it's both supportive and threatening, which is a very common tactic of these all Italian guys. They sound both like they do anything for you and murder you in a blink of an eye at the same time. So it's a funny thing. You get a lot of bullshit pins on your chest that don't mean a fucking thing. Yeah. So Corbett was sworn in to the Willow Springs PD at a tavern sworn in at the, it's like Deadwood for Christ sake, sworn in at the tavern of the village's political boss John Doc Rust. So he sworn in in front of a underground figure in a tavern. That's where how this was police career fucking stops here. By 1973, he's the chief of police. That was quick like that because wow, he got the promotions he needed in chief of police and he ran it just like the mob wanted him to, I mean, he did anything they want. He was a, he was basically a member of their squad, happened to have a police chief badge. He was running the department that he was put in charge to run. That's it. And he's doing, yep. He's doing protection for gambling and prostitution. He's taking kickbacks from shop shops, bribing. He bribed a, a first ward guy, a political guy. He was the bag man to bribe him. So the mob would give him and his, you know, in his police cruiser, the money and he would take it right to the guy. So it looked all legitimate. Yeah, and also one of the things here that they worked with this guy on was there's a canal at the edge of town that was where everybody dumped their cars that they wanted to get rid of. And that was part of it to you had to pay this guy off and they'd pay him off to, so you could dump cars and everything. Now by 81, that's what Alan has going on. That's a lot. This is his circle, Keating and Corbett. And they're both, I mean, mad corrupt, mad corrupt and Alan's raised, chest deep in the mafia and, and he's the underworld. He's right in the muck. Now Diane's got her own shit going on too. What? He's been in some plates of her own here by 81, fall of 81. She meets a man named Jim, Costco, Costco and the heck, Costco, any heck with a K. I'll just say that. You don't have to know where the K is. It's a fucking long name. So Jim, she starts having coffee with him. He's a professor at the college that she sits on the board of, okay? So she's doing that and she's having, starting in a fair with this guy, he's an economics professor at community college, has no money, has no prestige or anything like that. I mean, he's a community college professor. Yeah. He's just some guy she's into. Now, it's very interesting because Alan learned about the affair pretty much immediately. Yeah. Before, we were even sure it was sexual. Just they're having coffees and he was on top of that shit because he's got so many people around that you that, you know, he can use for eyes and ears, basically. Does your wife drink a latte? She's here, I think. I think she's here. I think she's banging a dude. I don't know. They're not banging in the store, but you know, could happen. She's with a man, low-beard, well-kempt, looks like he flocks. Yeah. So what he starts doing is asking his cup friends, keep an eye on my wife for me, keep an eye on my wife. And while I investigate what's going on in my house, basically, December of 81, there's a faculty Christmas party. And what I understand, that's when the relationship turned sexual, was that Christmas party, Diane and was his name, Jim, here, start having sex. And after that, it's a torrent sexual affair. Rip roaring through the holidays. Yeah, rip roaring through the holidays. Once they figure out that it feels good in there, it's going to keep happening. Yeah. Once you figure out these two go together with the ice, this is good. Uh-oh. Like chocolate and peanut butter. They'll never be separate again. How about that? You like the things I do? Let's do it again. I want you to tell Reese's about this because this is delicious. Now December 81, that's what that happens. Now that same December, Alan and Diane and the daughter all go on a family vacation to Sarasota, Florida. And Diane told Alan, this is your last chance to show me that you can change, which is pretty rich coming from someone who's fucking an economics professor at the same time. The two of them don't have much neither of them have a lot of ground to stand on at this point. But yeah, he's especially got no ground to stand on here, but he's got a lot to change. Yeah. So he says, yes, I want this to work. All right. So they go down to Sarasota and then in the middle of this, he cuts it short, claiming he has urgent business at the office, even though the courts are closed. All right. So it makes no sense. But he cuts it short and he has to go home early, he says. I gotta prepare an opening argument. We all forget about it. You have no idea. I got a lot of documents to prepare. So many financial statements. So by early January 92, this is right after the failed Sarasota vacation here, Diane decides that's it. I'm done. Game of chance didn't work out. So Diane starts planning a divorce. And she knew she had to plan this very well because he's good at these. He's good at this and he's a bastard too. So he'll do things to cut your legs off here. So she knew it's not going to be quiet and she knew that if she wanted to get some money out of this, she better do this correctly, basically, if she doesn't want to have nothing. So she does a lot of consulting, documents, things, prepares everything. She hires a divorce lawyer and she let it be known to the lawyer that she intended to seek full custody of Andrew the daughter as well. Oh, boy. So you can imagine how this is going to go over. This is going to get ugly. Oh, yeah. So according to a friend of hers, Diane began to realize that her, basically, the whole life that's been provided for her was, quote, not the real thing. And he, this person said she had grown up and was ready to give up the furs and the house for something more normal. So she realized that that just because you have a few bucks in a Cadillac, doesn't mean you're happy. It doesn't change. Especially if you're miserable and your husband is this asshole. Just makes you hate Cadillacs. Pretty much. It makes you hate that sound of that of skin on leather. You hate it. That soft cushion. Oh, that puff has sat down on it makes you feel every, every button in the seat. That's so funny. Oh, man. It does. So she, I guess they, everyone, Diane's affair wasn't so secret, basically, because he knows about it. A bunch of her friends know about it. At different times, she even turned to her lawyer for help, a lawyer that she knew to get her another lawyer for the divorce. And this lawyer said she remembered that Diane was, quote, pretty. And also that she was flaky. That's what they remember, pretty and flaky, which she's also kind of scared and has having an affair too. So flaky is probably about right. She's busy. Yeah. Now, she has some fears. As 1982 progresses into February, she has some fear. She told her friends and family that she thought Alan could kill her or have her killed. And he know. Yeah. She's like, if he knows I'm filing for divorce, it'd be much easier for him to just have me killed. That'd be so much easier, like he knows tons of people who could do this very easily. And then guess what? No more alimony. Yeah. And he gets, he gets, you know, custody of the daughter, everything's great. And he said he also, she also knew that he had tons of longstanding connections with all the police departments around town. So she said she was very scared of being pulled over while driving her car because she didn't know if it was going to be a real cop or it might be a real cop or a real cop that's there to kill her. Right. Right. It's, you know, whether or not this traffic stop is on the up and up. Yeah. Look at the guys in fucking, in New York there that were doing that. They were, the two murder cops will do, I think they'll do a bonus episode about them at some point. But they would, they were, they worked for the mob. They were detectives. They pull people over mob guys that they wanted to get rid of. can cuff them, put them in the back of the car and never see them again. They disappear and leave their car in a side of the road. That was that. Nobody knew where the fuck they went. They killed so many people those two guys. So they said, uh, uh, uh, friends of Diane said that he, that Alan was always surrounded by a shitload of cops because we find out later he litigated no fee divorces for at least 50 Cook County Sheriff's Officers, 50, 50 free divorces he did. Those guys at least do anything for you. Dude, they'll be holding to you as fuck and their bosses know that you're, I mean, the lieutenant of the vice squad knows that you're his guy and it's a lot. He also often represented officers from suburban police departments in workers' compensation and police board cases too. So we get them money, just works for them for free. Diane told her family going into February that if some lights go on behind her, she ain't gone over. No. She's not doing it. And she told Jim, her boyfriend, you don't pull over if a cop tries to pull you over, fucking gun it. Make it, make it as spectacle, make a scene, make a fucking scene gun and have five cops chasing you. Then it's a harder for them to kill you basically. So imagine if you're this, if you're this guy, you got to be going, is this worth it? Is this one? I mean, wow, I don't, this is just like an affair. This is crazy. I thought we were having fun. This isn't fun anymore. No, this is really, this went from fun to scary in like three weeks. This is too much. Fun is gone. I'm ready. Yeah. Friends say that she didn't just take off because of the daughter. She wanted it to be done right so she could actually have custody of the daughter. You know, kidnapping her wouldn't be good for her case, probably. So Alan, knowing about these affairs, decides to get an ex-police officer that he knows who's now a private investigator named Ted Negaza to bug his home to catch her. So she's got bugs in the home. He's got them on the phones. His house is wired for sound. Now Diane, who's extremely careful about everything, knows to be careful, careful about the divorce, the affair won't pull over all this. She does not think there is any danger in using her kitchen phone to talk to her boyfriend. Unfortunately, wow. So it is all recorded. So they hear tons of conversations between Diane and her boyfriend. On February 25th, Negaza brings the tapes over to the house to play for Alan. Okay. This is wild. Alan seated in the kitchen. On the kitchen counter, he's sitting up, Negaza's there and there's a sheriff's sergeant named Joseph Hine also there. Now on the tape, the one that they're really going to talk about, Diane and Jim basically and talk about in vivid and fucking eye-popping color, all about their previous night sexual encounter. What? Oh, yeah, including, well, I'll read this is from a court document. They just narrate a porn for the tape. Man, when we did this, remember when we did this, remember when we did that, I'll read this is from an actual court document. So you don't call me salacious. This is you call Cook County Salacious if you got any fucking problems here. Awesome. Listening with Negaza and a Cook County sheriff's police sergeant to one of the recorded conversations, masters thought he heard Diane and her paramor reminisce about the paramor's inserting a wine bottle into Diane's vagina as part of their sex play. What? Yes. Um, for some reason, this is what made him blow up. That's what got him mad. I don't care. You fuck my wife. You do. Don't disrespect Pino Noir. Like, he is, I will not have it. That's too much. Well, the thing is like that. Wow. Doesn't do. It shouldn't do. It shouldn't even make it. Shouldn't do anything. It's smooth and does nothing. Yeah, it's, there's no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's, that's for some weird, that's a different thing. That's not for this disrespecting a woman. And she wants to be disrespected. Yeah. That's what that is. Or it's fuck me with trash. Fuck me with garbage. Fuck me with refuse. What's it? Digging that trash. See if there's a really hard old burrito. We got in there. Is there a rotten banana at the bottom of the can? You can fuck me with anything non-organic down there. You got like a mick-a-low bottle. You can shove in bottom first. We got, oh, a wine bottle even better. Jesus Christ. So fuck me with the trash dildo. You cheap assholes. That's what it is. It's a, it's a disrespectful fuck and they, they're both into it, which, yeah, that'll make you, that'll make you mad. Somebody fucked your wife with garbage and that, yeah, and she loved it. She was, and it's awesome, but I really loved it. Reminisced and fucking basked in it the next day, brought it up when she's clothed and dry. Yeah. What the fuck? In her kitchen. With her capped in crunch on the shelf. That's where she did. Next time I missed her coffee, you talk about, she did this in front of capped in crunch. The captain had to hear this. This is wrong. It's all wrong. Telling you. The rabbit on the tricks box tried to cover his eyes. And his ear. He tried to tie him in a knot. The lucky charms guy wants a new shape. He was like, we, we add wine bottles. Half-eaten hard burritos. Hearts moons. Clover's wine bottles. Horseshoes. Mmm. Oh. Disgrace. The Purple ones taste like chavrona. Yeah. Unbelievable. That's just the most. He loses. He loses. Why? I'm talking about it. He loses it. By the way, he destroyed the tapes because he's so pissed off. Really? Yes. But the guys around it said that he at that point said, all right, I'm killing this bitch. That's what he said. What? I'm going to kill her. Fuck this. I'm going to make it look like a home invasion. And he tells the guy that we're going to have people come over here. And this is the Nekaza guy who recorded everything. He says, and the dogs and the cats and Diane, they're all going to go. The dogs and the cats. What? I don't think Sparky fucked anybody with a wine bottle. I leave them alone. Take it out on Kendall Jackson or fucking Robert Mandavi's got a fucking say in this. Not fluffy. Leave the dog alone. Jesus Christ. This is crazy. Ernest Angelio Gallo. The dog didn't stop him. Is that what it is? Apparently, apparently they're what she likes. So get them kill them all, which would be a very weird scene. They killed the cat too. It would be a lot to process. So it's at this point that Diane has no idea that this is all going on. She's been heard. But she does feel like the divorce might have a negative effect on her image. So she sends this is a letter in late February that she sent to Jim, her boyfriend. Quote, "I went to the priest the other day. He tells me I must deal with the external pressures of complaints, i.e., I don't nurse Alan back to health when I don't give him an opportunity to prove himself, when I don't slash won't give you up, when I continue to grow and make independent decisions." So she must deal with the external pressures of all those things and what they will do. She said, "The latter is my problem. Yet regrettably I spend too much time worrying about what other people think of me." The father, meaning the priest, suggested that during this period of time I listen to my attorney's advice and be the bitch, et cetera, that I will be portrayed to be. So he, no matter what happens, the priest said he is going to portray you as bitch, whore, gold digger, whatever thing you want to do. So be that. Fuck it. He's going to say you might as well do it and get what you want out of it rather than shrink and try to be nice. The priest told her that. Hey, be a bitch. What did you? Shope in any clothes. He clothes a little fucking thing. Be more of a bitch, all right? Show up in court with a bottle of wine every day and bring an eight-year-old boy next time, clack and clothes with you when he comes to confession, Jesus. Come on. You got to leave it as a confession play. You'll leave it as a tip, you know, a little something, a little something for the father. So that's what she tells the boyfriend and the letter. Now, March 18, Diane goes to her hairdresser and discusses her fears with him while he made her hair super, super fucking blonde. It's the lightest ash blonde that the L'Oreal line had to offer. Don't know why I know that, but I do. Almost white. Rick Flair blonde. We'll call it. Yeah. In the now the hairdresser, Douglas Allen Snow recalled her telling her to take your daughter and just go to Florida. Fuck it. Fuck it. Get the fuck out of here. Diane planned to initiate the proceedings against her husband this Monday coming up. That evening, she didn't meet Jim even though they had talked about meeting because she had warned him off that I'm afraid Allen's going to do something. So it's too hot right now, basically. Pussy's too hot. The block out of the pussy, too hot. Can't touch him after the, and then there's a board meeting that she's supposed to go to from the car. from the college, and this was a normal, like a regularly scheduled after work meeting basically, where they have after, it's like a happy hour thing every week they do, they have drinks after the meeting, they usually have it at the same place this week for some reason, it's changed to a different location at the last minute, so everybody had somewhere else. Okay. And that's kind of important. So March 19th, 1982 at 1 a.m., so that's that night, March 18th. She went to, didn't see her boyfriend, went out for drinks and had a hair appointment. One a.m. is when she's leaving the meeting. That's at this different restaurant. The boards after meeting drink session gets moved. And at 1 a.m., Diane's a trustee, so she's there, Jim is stays away, even though normally he's at these events, Jim stays away, per Diane's instructions. He had, she had specifically called and told him not to go to drinks that night. Something about Alan spook me today, and I like it. Now meanwhile, there is a woman named Genevieve Capstaff who has way too much time on her fucking hands. I mean, we joke a lot about people on this show, like old people that are, if a car drives down the road, they're looking right and down their license, but the way too much time on their hands, people, this lady takes it to a fucking other level, man. Okay. Well, she exits the meeting 40 minutes early on purpose, this woman does. So she can go get in her car, reposition it from where she was at to another spot in the parking lot that's not easily seen by the front door. So she can look and see who comes out and who's having an affair together. The shorter they leave and who's fucking who's going to talk? And then when people pull away, fucking make out at their car or whatever, she's going to sit in the corner and find out it's one o'clock in the morning. Imagine a husband really needs to work on his oral skills, so that's what Genevieve's what? Genevieve's cat needs to do what now. Yeah, she's, she's got to get home to somebody. This is crazy. That's absurd. You fucking amount of time. I've never heard of someone with no life to this extent where they sit in a parking lot and middle of the night, 40 minutes early. It's not like she thinks her husband's having an affair and she's waiting. This is, I'm going to see who's fucking each other. People that don't have anything to do with her. Go home. It's one thirty in the morning. You fucking lunatic. Yeah. What is wrong with these people? So around what I am, Diane says her goodbyes and says her goodbyes in the parking lot and drives off alone in the Cadillac much to the consternation of poor Genevieve who really wanted to see her get fingered on the hood. So bad. We're just going to be sitting there rubbing her clit looking for some. Come on. Come on. Yeah. Yeah. Get me some ordering. Yeah. Somebody get me off somebody. This turns me on so much. It's grind in her. I mean, if a dude, she's grinding into the console, yeah. If a man did that, what kind of fucking creep is that? I don't know. Yeah. She's a creep too. This is crazy. And later on she'll admit to doing this, which is even crazier. That's how we know about it. So she drives away. This Genevieve cap staff woman doesn't say good enough. Yeah. And I saw everybody. I didn't get what I wanted. I didn't get to see a fairs happening. She then follows Diane. Who are you? You're not a private investigator. And you have nothing to do with anything. Why are you following this? She needs to see somebody. This is the talk about a gossip. So she's following her through the streets, you know, kind of trying to set behind her a little bit. She stopped following her when Diane was about a hundred yards from her home. That's when she broke off and turned down another street. All the way home to make sure she wasn't going to fuck anybody. That is crazy. The nosiest woman I've ever heard about. But we know that Diane definitely left the place that one I am and Diane definitely drove straight home and we know Diane was a hundred yards from her fucking house at that point. So that's almost home. That we know. Yeah. Because remember, she disappeared. By two thirty the next day, Alan's going, I don't see. Never came to home last night. We know she was within a hundred yards of home. So then that morning, March 19th, morning time, that's when the housekeeper Donna arrives. And at this point when she arrives, Alan's always gone to the office. But instead, he's at the kitchen table sitting with the daughter and she's like, that's weird. And he tells the housekeeper, Diane's missing. I called everyone I could think of. I don't know where she is. She didn't come home last night. Have you heard of you with this kid and I don't know where this kid goes? Exactly. And at two thirty p.m., that's when he called the Cook County Sheriff's Department. And you know, from the beginning, does the missing person's report, Lieutenant Keating shows up as we know and even less idea of why the fuck he's there now. His suspicion is Diane's been having an affair with some professor. I don't know who, even though he knows. And I think they ran off together. They look around. There's, I mean, no signs of anything. It seems reasonable. She, her car's gone. Car's gone. The jury's gone. That's a pretty good indicator. So they go, I mean, I guess we'll see if she turns up and they leave. And all right. That's it. Now, Alan wants nothing. You would imagine if your wife is missing, but his excuse is actually not that terrible. If your wife is just disappears in a thin air, you're going to say you're going to want all the publicity you can get because you want to find her. But if your wife's been having an affair and you think she ran away with her boyfriend, you might not want that super publicized. So that's he can, he can lean on that of, you know, I don't want my business out in the out here. I don't, I don't think my wife is missing. I think she's ran away. She's missing. Different. Yeah. I think she's missing. Yeah. She's missing. She's missing a little bit. Hold on. She's missing. You've been wine bottles missing too. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Also, I checked the wine seller. There's some things missing from there. So the spring proceeds on and goes into the summer and we never hear from Diane. Oh, no. Which her four-year-old you would think, even if she ran away, she would have some viewers back here. She wants full custody. She's not leaving her kid behind. Yeah. Now, Alan does not want any publicity on this at all. Does it want to talk to the press? He does tell the press that Diane is, quote, probably shacked up with a boyfriend somewhere. That's what she tells the press. So he's like, I don't know. I'm not that concerned because she's probably shacked up with a boyfriend. Now, at the same time, she's telling other people. He's telling other people that he knows that this is very unlike Diane. I don't understand. She would never abandon our daughter. She loves our daughter. She'd never just abandon. So we don't know which story is true from Alan. Now brother Randy, this is Diane's brother Randy, is having none of this shit. He's hearing nothing. He believes none of this shit for a minute and he's like, you don't want publicity to find my sister. That's crazy. You. We're getting publicity to find my fucking sister. He hires a PI. He goes to the press. He's not fucking around. I like this guy. He goes to the press, over Alan's objections. And it becomes a pretty goddamn big story that this socialite, high-powered lawyer's wife is missing in her and her Cadillac and all that kind of shit. Now, Keating has stuck, he's the vice guy, but he has stuck his nose into this investigation also. And from what people understand, he is kind of, people are saying he seems to be like obstructing this investigation. They don't understand what to steal it. Yeah. Furthering it. Weird, they don't get it. They don't get it. Sometime within the next, within before summer, we'll say, Alan hires a livin nanny because, you know, he can't take care of this kid all the time with all the work and the mob shit who could take care of a five year old. It's going to get a period one day. When does that happen? I don't know. I don't know what? Seven eight. I got to get somebody in here. Could be tomorrow. We don't know. So he hires a livin nanny named Janet Bowers. By the way, they will start having an affair very quickly and will eventually will eventually be married. Of course they will. Shocking, right? So I wonder what his interviews were like. Hey, how you doing? Not hot enough. They got high. How you doing? Your tits are all right. Could be a little bit. I'm going to hold off. No, not you. Yeah. You look pretty good. How's this taste? Yeah. It's the first nanny job where stand up and twirl is part of it. And they're like, I don't understand. Stand up and turn around. You'll do. I know CPR and the Heimlich do one of these. I don't. One of these little twirl. I don't care about CPR. It's fine. Shocking a joke. Don't worry about it. Think it's off. I don't. So he then Alan puts up a $10,000 reward for information on his wife, which basically sounds like from a guy who's got a lot of money that sounds like, I don't care whether you find my wife. You're not going to find her. I can put up a million. I'm as well. Just put up 10 grand. Don't care. That just shows that 10 grand. It's fine. No, I would put up more than that. Sarah was missing. My kid was missing. I might put up. I don't think I'd go. I mean 10 grand. I think I'd go higher than 10 grand, probably. Let's. You know, make this a. I think you should probably go with whatever the ring cost. Oh, that's how you're doing it. That's a pretty good idea, right? Well, back then, Christ, a $10,000 ring would have been like this big. That would be a pretty big ring, yeah. Yeah, at a point today, a $10,000 ring ain't nothing. No, we saw in Love After Lockup, put a shit. We saw in Love After Lockup what a $10,000 ring looks like. Yeah, you like a piece of shit, it's fine, but she's not gonna impress her friends. Yeah, it's not holy shit, that's impressive. Her friends are gonna ask if you guys are okay. Yeah, it's everything all right. So we bring you on one of those food chain things, and we bring you guys on me all every night. That's funny, that's so funny. Because like, Sarah, I bought her a ring a couple years after we were married, because we were poor when we got married. We just started these shows. We had no money at all. I had nothing, I didn't even have a fucking bank account. So I ended up buying her a ring eventually, and she's so fun, cool, and I gave it to her. She was like, she's so cool. She goes, oh, I can't wear this, it's too much of me. What are you talking about? She goes, no, I'm not wearing it, that's crazy. I have to wear a ring. It's too nice. She said, it's too nice, I'm not wearing that. I don't want that, that's too much. I'm like, what are you talking about? I just want to, I'm standing there with a diamond ring in my hand arguing. Guys, how many times have you had a diamond gift for your wife? I had to argue about the fucking thing. It's hilarious. That's how cool she is though, that she was like, no, no, no, that's crazy. Bring it back. What? That on my house. No, I don't want that. Wow, so these, there's investigators now, and I'm using air quotes here. These investigators. Shit. No. Court documents showed that masters at this point owned a co-own to brothel with two former Cook County sheriff's police officers. And those two officers were assigned to the case of the missing person here. Okay. Which is not great. So that masters has bribe police officers for friendly testimony in the past, and they're all his friends as we know about, so all of that. Now, enter the FBI. Oh, why? Financial shit. You can, you can fucking disappear your wife all day long, but you start fucking around with credit card machines. The FBI will be up your balls with no problems. Yeah. The FBI went, they got, they had some undercover people against basically in Cook County to try to bring down the vice in that area. Uh-huh. Now, the, what they did was they had mob connected strip clubs and after hour joints that were fronting as brothels and all that kind of thing. So the clubs would launder the charges through credit card processing companies under respectable business names. And it hits your bill like we talked about before, so you went to Johnny Steakhouse instead of Johnny's whorehouse. It's a big difference. Right. You know, when, when it comes to the wife and at home, yeah, she's going to want to know what's up. That was safe involved, but they've ain't it. They ain't it. No. Uh-huh. Yes, there was curtains at the restaurant. Yes. You bet. So it's very nice. Now, the FBI, uh, here, the bureau, what they decided to do was run its own credit card services front and get them to use their fucking credit card machine. So they're just piling, piling mass amounts of evidence with the FBI. They're bringing them credit card machines and saying, don't worry. It'll be a bill's Steakhouse and they, they got an undercover guy who poses as a guy who does shady credit card. credit card machines. Yep. And it works. It's fucking amazing how it works. We'll have them. Yeah, it's like when they, on the wire, when they would give them the pre-programmed phones that they would sell, they were selling them the pre-wire tapped phones. It's the same thing. Same exact thing. How many guys are there that sell credit card machines? You find a guy. You use that guy. You use that guy unless somebody is cheaper. Yeah. Now, his front is the National Credit Service, which ended up processing $30 million in claims for the clubs. Wow. With a special undercover agent living for three years as Larry Wright, a guy named Larry Damron, an FBI agent, who lived for three years undercover as Larry Wright, a money services businessman. Doing $10 million a year in business. Fuck, yes. That's a lot. That's incredible. And that's just from these strip clubs. That's has nothing to do with. Yeah. That's one business. Union kickbacks or this or that, nothing to do with any of the garbage collection. I mean, this is. Or things that don't have a service and a physical thing like protection, whereas that's tons of money. Just ancillary mob income here. Wow. So another agent would handle him from anonymous hotel rooms. He had an agent that's your handler that goes and takes your notes in and all that kind of shit. So they used a one of the guys who was, I guess, one of the like bag men for the mob who had been busted for something. They used him as a guy to do intros and shit, that's how they did it. So basically the role this took the FBI agent up the ladder of mob guys, the better he did, and ended up basically he was paying, he was paying, you know, protection to Victor Spalotro, who was, you know, Joe Pesci and Goodfell his brother. Right in it. Not sure if he's the one who got beat with the baseball bat, the death or not, we're not sure about that. Cornfield. Yeah, in the cornfield. So June of 1982, this all happened in the few months. They had that operation going and everything's coming to fruition in the few months after the death here or after the missing, I should say, a missing miss of Diane. Now June 1982, Corbett, the Willow police officer there, the chief of police is fired. Oh, by who? The village board for corruption suspicion from the village board. One of his longtime girlfriends told investigators, in addition to all of his corrupt activities that he did, which were numerous and many, he once put a bullet through her beehive hairdo. Quote. Shot at her head. So I wouldn't leave. What movie is that or somebody shot somebody's beehive hairdo? It was a movie. What movie was that? I don't know, but that's fucking that's fucked up. It's crazy. It's from I saw it less than six months ago or somebody did that shot or the beehive hairdo. The police chief did that. Yes. So she wouldn't leave. Oh my God. So how corrupt is he? How corrupt is he? How corrupt is he? Well, he was like, we know, friendly with all these mobsters. He inherited a $150,000 and a speedboat from reputed mob member Joe Testa, who was murdered in Florida. This is obviously just a way for them to, they were like, a guy died. This is a way to, there's some shit. You can, well, you, rather than bribe him in bags here and there, you could do it out in the open with this. Oh, he got a speedboat, 150 grand, aren't you lucky? Wow. That's amazing. After Corbett lost his job during the administration change of 81, he was at a party trying to raise money for a lawsuit attempting to get his job back. This guy is the balls to, he wanted to sue the fucking town to get his job back after he has been the most corrupt human being ever, wow, sniffed out and fired over suspicions of it. They didn't have any hard evidence. That's why he thinks he can get his job back and it will be okay. Apparently, the toast master at the event was fifth municipal district presiding judge Anthony Monthly owned. So a fucking presiding judge was there and was being the toast master at this thing. Okay. Now Keating, the other guy, Lieutenant Nair, the vice squad guy, he loves to take payoffs, loves it. On tape, he's been caught a million times taking payoffs in person, they take payoffs. He would, you know, issue warnings to people, he would be that kind of thing. He'd pull somebody over and tell him, hey, you better watch yourself, blah, blah, so and so is best off at you. He told the undercover FBI agent, the Larry Wright guy, that a lawyer named Alan Masters could push through all the permits and paperwork for a new club. Even the bribes, he'll handle everything. He's a one stop shop for an illegal set up. He said, he's a little ball, the fucker from the wire, you're going to love him. And then he said, here's his phone number, gave him his call and saying, he'll be expecting your call. Oh boy. Okay. I knew who the fuck masters was by now and they go, that's the guy whose wife is missing. So not only do we have him doing this, his wife is missing. That's a problem. So they were like, wow, this guy is someone we need to look into. In one recorded conversation, the agent talked about talking with Keating, brought up Diane Masters. Hey, that lawyer you taught me to, he's the guy with the wife who's missing, right? And this is what he said. This is what Keating said to the undercover agent. She turned up missing like the day before the divorce was going to be filed. Convenient wasn't it? And then he chuckled. That's funny, right? Oh, shit. In that convenient. Now August 24th, 1982 has someone seen her alive. There is a person coming forward saying they have seen her alive. Really, a canoe-pattling tipster as the Chicago Tribune. you and put it. Yeah, who said he spoke with Diane masters that summer comes into the the whole thing here. Um, he says, according to him, a woman identifying herself as Diane masters spoke to him while she was being held captive in a padlocked cabin on the banks of the Des Plains River in Lake County. What? He walked by a cabin and there was a lady trying to get out. She said, I'm Diane masters help me. That's what he said. No date. He did what? Well, that's what we're going into. No date was given for the conversation, which was reported to police on August 24th by a secretary in Alan masters law office. That's who called the police about this. The tipster said he'd encounter Diane masters or heard her voice while she was being while he was paddling down the river. So he heard this coming from a cabin as he's paddling. The woman was quoted saying, I need help call my husband. Not the police is a $10,000 reward for me. Please, you'll give you the reward. Authorities said they were skeptical of the report, which they were told was phoned into the attorney's office by someone only identifying himself as Jack Springer. Okay. One ranking official on the case said he might take a paddle. He'd like to take a paddle to the tipster if he could be found who doesn't believe him. Authorities suspected the hoax, possibly by the same person who was responsible for two earlier kidnap ransom demands each for $25,000, which ran with which masters received. It's the same time. We'll talk about that in a minute. The same time Alan masters goes to the police saying my house is bugged. My house has been bugged. He said, I found two ease dropping devices in my home and the cops said, well, let us see them. And he said, no, he would not give them over to the police. He's listening devices that his own guy. It probably implanted or he just made a month. He put it. Yeah. So now according to police reports, Alan complained to the sheriff's investigators that his home had been bugged and said the bugs might have had something to do with his wife's disappearance. Police said he declined to take a lie detector test and has refused to be interviewed by the private detectives hired by the wife's family. Okay. But what about your detectives? The ones with fucking badges who we pay their salaries. What are them? They're the ones that he needs to sit down with. I don't give a fuck about private investigators. It's like this. Now the kidnap ransom demands in both of them masters claims he took $25,000 both times in cash to the Chicago and Northwestern railway station in Waukegan as he told police he was instructed to do over the phone. He said the caller threatened to harm his wife. So police staked out the station, but nobody ever showed up. Okay. Masters secretary relayed the tipsters report to the sheriff's investigators. Jack Springer reportedly said he'd not called police directly because he quote didn't want to get involved. Yeah. My my own business. Look, I'm a guy who minds his own business. She asked me. She asked me for a favor. She said, call my husband. I'm giving you a ringy thing. That's it. I need it. Use handle it from here. Click. I gotta go. I gotta make my way back down the river. I'll see you later. So he said that there was a lot cabin and that was a need of paint and that the woman inside shouted, I am Mrs. Masters. I was abducted and put in this cabin. Call my husband. I need help. According to some real shabby cabin. Yeah. According to the caller, the woman then mentioned the name of Diane Masters five year old daughter and gave two telephone numbers to call. Problem is once she went missing, her daughter's name was in every newspaper in Chicago, and there was all over the place. One number was that of Alan Masters law office. The second number was was splashed with water. And so he couldn't he couldn't read it. It was all runny, you know, because he was paddling 911. That's the one there. Call that one Lieutenant Howard vannich commander of the sheriff South suburban detective unit said that information on Springer's call was turned over to police in Lake County, but that a search along the river failed to turn up the woman or the cabin. No. No cabin either. No shitty needs to be painted. Nothing. Nothing. There's total harsh. Now the missing woman's brother Randy here confirmed that he retained the services of special operations, a private detective agency in Chicago, a member of the firm John Waters, not the director, a little tiny, tiny mustache, fucking telling divine to be funnier. A Chicago police detective there said an exhaustive inquiry into the master's disappearance has led her and led him to believe that quote, she is certainly dead by now. Oh boy. Fall 1982. Alan, here's that private investigator said we think she's dead. Everybody seems to think she's dead. So he says I'm file in the insurance claim. Fuck it. Oh, yep. He said he's files a $100,000 life insurance policy held by these college on her with him as beneficiary. Yeah, it's that covers trustees traveling to and from boy board meetings and is void once the member enters the home. So this is for only pays off for things that happen outside the home. If you fall and kill yourself at home, that doesn't pay off. It's only for outside. Really? Once you get home, anything beyond that, you could leave again. That's all on you after that. Well, that's a very fortuitous. It's interesting, but it's inside their home is specifically it doesn't count. Okay. If it happens specifically inside the home. So Alan's claim rests on just that on the whole idea that Diane dead, obviously, he obtains a legal declaration of her death. And two checks of $50,000 each eventually arrived by mail. Yeah. Not bad. So he's by the way, when you do that, you know what that is? Mail fraud. That's mail fraud right there. Yes, it is. You get anything out of the mail. It's not good. That's bad. He engineered all of this shit. So they said, the claim they said, "insured board member failed to return home from a college board meeting and has been declared legally deceased beneficiary Alan." So it's on the way home from a board meeting. It's exactly what it's there for. So now there's the estate and some custody shit here. Diane has declared legally dead. And Alan says, well, I get the insurance claim. Now the estate is in play. And Alan now is going to fight with her brother, Randy, over Diane share of assets and access to the daughter. Oh boy. Okay. Because now it's a totally different thing. So Randy now is now in a civil matter with a guy who he's pretty sure killed his sister, which is amazed dangerous. Yeah. Especially this fucking guy. Yeah. December 11, 1982 comes along here. It has been almost nine months. This is crazy. This is the Illinois sanitary and ship canal in Willow Springs. Okay. An officer on routine patrol near the canal noticed tire tracks running off the bank and straight into the water. Yeah. If you see tire tracks go right into the water, you go, well, that can't be. Unless the car that does that is a car. Unless an amphibious car came out of the river, I think there's a problem here. So he said it looks like a car has been deliberately driven in. So he calls it in and the response triggered was overseen by James Ross, the new police chief who is now honest, who replaced Gordon. Yeah. And his whole thing is I have to be super up and up because Corbett was so corrupt. Now the board had installed him because he's very honest. Now this is a common place where people dump cars for insurance. Yeah. They do salvage operations a lot here. Divers go down expecting maybe a couple stolen cars down there, including the one that drove into the water. Sure. Instead they find from some reports 82 vehicles down there. 82, 82, which is one that's fucking deep is this canal. It's bigger than a small car lot. That's insane. Yeah. That's huge. Those mom and pop shops don't have 82 cars. No, this is insanity. Holy shit. This is a bunch of give ups. It's people doing dumping it for insurance reasons here. I wanted to pay out. So this is a dump site. Now they pull out on this day, 25 cars out of this fucking buyer. The 25th car they pull out the reason why there's only 25. They stopped on this one. The 25th car is a yellow Cadillac license plate DGM 19. They all they all know that car. That's reports been going around for nine months. Everyone there knows the car. Keys are still in the car. Still in the ignition, which is interesting. Now this they were saying that they were going to clean up this canal. And this is what they find. So who shows up at the scene as soon as the cars pulled out? Alan Lieutenant Keating shows up. Nothing to do with this. Why would a vice squad guy be here while they're pulling cars out well, if I make no sense whatsoever, he appeared at the recovery scene. Chief Ross was surprised and said, "What are you doing here?" And he goes, "I don't know, get back to work, fucker." They don't work for the same people. He's a sheriff, he's a town guy, so he can't tell him that, but he, and he's a lieutenant commander of the Rice Squad of the county. But he says, "What are you doing here?" Just casually and he says, "I don't know, just drive him by, saw some stuff happening." - I heard there was some shit happening. - Figured I'd take a look. - So they pull the car out. The car, the inside of the car is empty, other than keys and a couple of personal items and things like that. They open the trunk of the car. - Yeah. - And they find Diane in there. That's where she is. - Really? - She's in the trunk of the car. Decomposed as can be. - Yeah. - It was being in water for nine months and you can imagine. She's partially clothed, missing her underwear. - Oh. - From the report here, she was clad in a matching skirt and blazer and brown blouse and a bra and jewelry when she was in the trunk of the car. However, no pantyhose or undergarments or shoes were ever recovered. - What is that about? - But there is no evidence of sexual molestation of the body. So that's interesting and they have a theory of why that is. She would be doing this. Now, she's very badly decomposed. They have to confirm her. I mean, they know it's her, which from what she's wearing in the car she's in and her jewelry, but they have to do dental records too. - Sure. - Absolutely do it. Her skull has been pretty broken and pretty good. Two entry wound, two bullet entry wounds as well. So she got blunt force trauma and two 22 caliber gunshots to the head as well. And they found two 22 caliber shell casings in the trunk recovered from a sleeve of her shirt they fell into. - It got caught. It got caught in like her shirt there. - Wow. - So there's that. They have bullet fragments recovered from the skull. Everything's sent to the FBI laboratory and we'll talk a little more about that in a second. Apparently her wristwatch and dashboard clock both stopped at 150 exactly. - Oh, that's right. They had those analog dashboard clocks. - Yes, so they're both stopped at 150. - Water will do that. - Absolutely to both of their watches. That's interesting. So that's a good idea of when the car went in the water. So they found, by the way, at least six of the vehicles found in the 25 foot deep canal belong to former police officers in Willow Springs or nearby bridge view. - How hilarious. - Or their friends, all of which had been reported stolen. By the way, they said we don't believe it was a coincidence that Mrs. Master's car with her body and the trunk was dumped in the same spot or a bunch of auto thieves have been dumping their cars. - Right. - Yeah, a bunch of cops. - Yeah. They said in most cases to the vehicles hadn't even been stripped for parts. They were just insurance dumps. They didn't care about the parts. - Wow. - If the vehicles were really stolen, you know, basically they were-- - Emissions, everything. - They were trying to determine, yeah, basically the ones with everything on them were dumped for insurance. If they were stripped, it might be a way just to get rid of the carcass of the car. But masters, they go to him again and they'd like to talk to him and he declines to take a lie detector test. No, thank you. - Really? - Don't think so. So December 13th, remember Larry White, the undercover agent, he had a meeting on the books with Alan Masters that day to talk about club permits. This is two days after the body's found. So that's very interesting. Masters apparently got real evasive with the agent and said that I'm all jammed up in court and I can't do it. Didn't say they just pulled my wife out of a canal. So I got a-- - I'm jammed up in court. - Jammed up in court. He then, the agent then called Keating on tape asking why the fuck this is going on? Why isn't he getting with me now? And Keating was very cryptic and said masters has too many problems right now. A lot of stuff going on. Call back in three or four weeks and everything will be fine. - We can make it disappear. I'm three to four. - We'll make it disappear. - Now, December 14th, Chicago Tribune huge headline, Examiner Halt's husband's attempt to have the murder victim cremated. He wanted to have her cremated now, right now. That's crazy. So instead, the medical examiner Dr. Robert G. Stein said that he's blocking reported requests to have her cremated. So they said Stein said he was informed Sunday night by one of the investigators that Mrs. Master's husband, Alan, wanted her body cremated. And Stein said he received the same information Sunday from the Willow Springs Police Chief. He said, quote, I turned him, meaning the husband down. Stein said, although he said he hasn't talked to masters himself, he just denied it on the report. - Yeah. - Stein says Mrs. Master's body is in the Cook County morgue and will be held for at least 48 more hours. He said he's told the Cook County States Attorney's Office that he opposes cremation of the body. He said he took the action for the simple reason that it's a homicide case and he said the body is evidence in the cause of death. - Absolutely. - He said possibly we might even have to exhume the body sometime for further examination. So we might even need it later. - I don't even want to bury it right now. - Yeah, we're hang on for a fucking minute. Her, all of her relatives, including her brother, want her buried anyway. That's what they were wanting to begin with. But I mean, if they were not divorced and in a thing he's gonna have, Alan would have control over that unless the medical examiner says no. So, yeah, they said there was no, the brother said there was no reconciliation and Diane was filing for divorce. So they're very skeptical of Alan and anything he does. So they hired the private investigator. They also said her photo will hang in the Diane Master's shelter for battered wives, which is now gonna be named after Diane. Her, it was named after her when it opened because she had done so much work and time and donated money to it. And then they're gonna put her big picture up now too. - Unbelievable. - Yeah, that's crazy. Full autopsy time. Okay, she'd been struck in the head with a blunt instrument and shot twice. Evidence collected of the remains indicate she could have been bludgeoned while disrobing the night she was murdered. Okay, hence, what would you take off first? Your shoes, canny hose. I don't think your underwear would come off first though. Would they? I'm not a woman. - If they come off with the pantyhose, I don't want to pretend to be a woman. - I have, I have literally never had pantyhose on my, but I have no idea that works, especially an 80s woman wears pantyhose. - Yeah. - You'd have to find a woman like over 55 to even tell you what the pantyhose do. - They are incredibly tight. So I imagine if you go to pole, they're taking everything that's under them. - Probably, maybe you grab it all at once, or I'm not sure. Maybe they were like thick on top and we're like their own underwear, do they have those? That would be convenient. - I don't know, like a bloomer? - That'd be super convenient. Like how pantyhose, but then at the top have them be like kind of underwear. - The pantyhose. - Yeah, pantyhose. - The pantyhose. - With some hose down it. - I think that's the button. Ladies, come on. - I have no idea. They might have that. - We're inventing things for you. - That was probably invented in this. - That was invented in 1953 and we're just like, yeah, that's what you do. - Sure. - God, we're idiots. Okay, so they said that she might have been disrobing. They said Stein, the medical examiner, quizzed this week by the star newspaper on the four-year-old unsolved murder case. This is later indicated that a broken cheekbone discovered during an autopsy of Diane, very possibly was caused by a blow from a blunt object. Possibly the medical examiner said the object could have been some kind of blackjack or leather-wrapped lead instrument with a spring handle. - Shwap. - Mobster's use. Back in the day. Stein said that at first the gunshots, he thought the gunshots could have broken her cheekbone but later said that trajectories passed from right to left in a straight line and that it was quite possible she'd been struck with something else as well. So beaten then shot rather than just shot. He said it was also quite possible. She'd been shot after she was dumped into the trunk of her car. Only one of the 22 caliber shell casings was found and that was in the sleeve of her blouse. - Okay. - So that would be hard to do from another position if she was standing up. It'd be hard for the shell casings to go up. - Right, she'd have to be unconscious in there. - Yeah, now he refused to draw any definite conclusions from the report when asked if the fact that Mrs. Masters was naked from the waist down and the blouse was unbuttoned. If that was indicative that she could have been in the process of undressing, that's when he said it's possible, quite possible. - Certainly. - Yeah, which would mean put her at home, which would also mean that that insurance policy should have been paid out too. - No, no, avoid. - No, avoid. Now, their Diane's family and friends, they attend a big memorial for her. They have a huge one and it's a big deal here, obviously. They have a big eulogy for her. They said Mrs. Masters' husband, an attorney, Alan Masters, sat almost motionless with his head bowed during the 40-minute service. Occasionally stroking the head of the couple's daughter, five-year-old Andra, and comforting those seated next to him. So he showed up at it and acted like it was all fine. Now, police and prosecutors, to begin to refocus their investigation onto the death of Diane following this, obviously, the following finding of the body. 'Cause now they know it's a murder probe anyway. She's not in Bolivia somewhere, you know, living it up. - Yeah, and you don't commit suicide in this way. - I don't know, I don't know how you'd roll yourself down the tree. - I don't know how you'd get in the car, though. - Can you shut yourself? - Yeah. - Yeah, that'd be tough. So, and get rid of the gun, too. That'd be tough. - Yeah. - The probe they said's now being spearheaded by the Willow Springs Police Department. It's said to be seeking new clues to add to evidence gathered from the autopsy of her body and her car. Now Diane's husband, Alan, is still a quote, likely candidate for questioning the police say, or the police tell the newspaper. I would say one assistant cook county state's attorney said, "I'm sure he'll be talked to by police authorities." - Certainly. - "I would hope so." Chief Ross vowed whoever did this is going to pay. They're going to pay. Ross assumed command, obviously, from the last corrupt guy. And he said that he would clean up this corrupt police department, especially dragging all these cars out and all that. He said, "When you go fishing with a big hook, you catch big fish, getting everybody." He said, "There's going to be, quote, no cover up whatsoever in this murder investigation. He'll spend the next several days reviewing reports, passed on to him by Sheriff's Police, because the body turned up in Willow Springs, he has jurisdiction." And he said, "This is a spokesman for the sheriff, we're working with Ross right now." And Ross said, "I'll go over all the reports and statements of witnesses very carefully. Maybe I can pick something out of the reports that the county guys might have missed, not purposely missed, but missed just the same." That called him corrupt, even though I'm the corruption breaker guy. He does confirm that he intends to speak with Alan Masters as well. So January 4, 1983, the investigation is starting to get. It's getting big. Starting a mushroom into something much bigger with a lot of legs and tentacles and shit here. They say a task force, this is from the Chicago Tribune, a task force of federal, state, and local authorities conferred Monday in an effort to determine if a link exists between the murder of Diane Masters and the dumping of more than 25 cars, trucks, and motorcycles in the canal. These are the same people. In addition to the FBI, the task force includes agents of the state criminal investigation, our division of criminal investigation, the Chicago police, auto theft detail, sheriff's investigators, and Willow Springs police. The national auto theft bureau representing insurance company interests also had assigned an agent to the probe. The body obviously was found a couple weeks ago at this point, at a conference in Willow Springs called by chief Ross investigators decided to interview. They said he says that investigators decide to interview all the owners of the cars or other vehicles found in the canal. All of them and look at the original reports that the vehicles have been stolen. In some instances, witnesses will be asked to testify before a grand jury, because that way it's perjury if you lie. A total of 28 vehicles have been found in the canal so far. State agents from the division of criminal investigation entered the case at the request of the head of the special prosecutions unit. Chicago police are involved because some of the vehicles were reported stolen in Chicago. 'Cause I don't know, I went to the city and it got stolen. It's a very easy thing to say. And they go, "Wow, that happens in the city." And that's it. - A big city. It's scary. - That's what happens. That's why we live out here, right? Okay. Hey, is that why we live out here in the burbs? I think, yeah, that's good. - Yeah, we did this. - All right. Three to 86 operations safe bet gets underway here. So this article says, "The Washington Post got wind of the undercover operation and gave the bureau a short runway before publishing." So they said, "We're going to publish this." They said, "Let us do some shit before you blow up or cutting a spot here." So they had to do this quickly before the publishing happened. Federal raids hit all sorts of clubs all over the place from these credit card machine brothels and all this shit. Dozens of people are indicted. It's a big fucking deal. There's all sorts of trials. There's a guy Bruce Frash. I think that's one of the cops. He's convicted in May of '86 on 18 counts of racketeering conspiracy, extortion and tax fraud with prosecutors telling the jury that these two men solve their badges on the street to the highest bidder. - Yeah. - And Keating is in a lot of fucking trouble. - I would say so. - So, Operation Safe Bet alongside Sergeant Bruce Frash on the 18 counts, that's what happened. That's what causes this to all be reopened. Then they get a very non-corrupt cop in here. A guy named John Jack Reed goes by Jack. A lot of John's come up by Jack back in the day. Jack Reed, who's just a fucking dude who is very honest as the day is long. He was a seminary student that instead of turning, yeah, he was gonna go to the priesthood. - Instead of turning priest. - And instead he joined the Marines, which is the complete opposite of the priesthood. You kill people, you don't fuck kids. It's totally different. - Opposite amount of vagina too. - Completely, yeah. So, he, that's what he did. And then he became a Cook County Sheriff's Police Officer from 1966 to 1998, retiring as a lieutenant. - 32 years, good for him. - Not bad. So, he met his wife in 1966. That probably also got him out of the priesthood. I met some hot chick in this. - She guessed it, I'm gone. - You know what it feels like to have this in someone's mouth? Oh my God, like an adult woman's mouth? It's amazing. - I encourage it. - I know you guys know what it feels like, but I mean it in an adult woman's mouth. So it's way different. - Much bigger mouth. - Way different. Yeah. - That's awesome. - So, he was her driving instructor and he asked her out and then they got married. - Yeah. - So this case, it's 1986 now. And the Cook County Sheriff's Department puts Jack Reed in charge of it. And that's what's going on. Now Reed picked up the case. It's been cold for four years. He works with investigators, Paul Sabin and Robert Colby. Now, Reed's former partner at the sheriff's office said that he's really good at doing shit like this and going back over stuff because he makes sources very comfortable to speak. They feel like they can tell him stuff and they don't feel scared of the whole situation. He said, quote, he had this ability to get people to confide and talk. He was the best partner I ever had. He just exuded so much credibility and integrity. His own supervisor, while Reed is investigating this case, his own supervisor showed up at his front door and told him to stop fucking looking into this shit. Uh-oh. - Said leave it the fuck alone. So that's not a good sign. His son was there and his son remembered it decades later going, this was fucking crazy. He said I was a kid and I didn't know the details at the time of what's going on. But he said I never-- - That's on training day and I was like, that looks familiar. - Whoa, damn, he asked my dad if he wanted to get wet and I was like, this is weird as fuck. - It's crazy. - He said I never knew about that. Even at home, it's mind-boggling. A supervisor would try to intimidate him off the case is what his son said. Now what he gets, he's very good at getting people to talk like we said and the people he gets to talk first are ladies. This is the thing. This is, okay. And this is why this was, you can think whatever you want about the Karen Reed case. But to say it's a giant conspiracy of all the cops I didn't buy for a fucking second only for this reason, not because they're above it 'cause obviously they're not. Because if there's 10, 15 cops that are all in on this and then more cops that cover it up and all this, how many of them have gotten divorced in the last five fucking years? How many of them had girlfriends they broke up with? All of those women who were there too would have told on them in two fucking seconds to fuck them over. So that's the only reason why I thought that was. But that's what's going on here. The ladies know all, the wives know everything and these ladies start coming forward and talking to Jack Reed. - Oh really? - That's trouble for people. Yeah, this is interesting. Now, one lady came forward, one of the police officers wives to talk about domestic violence within the police force and things like that turns out there's a lot of these women coming forward. This lady thought it was just her. These ladies got scared because they thought holy shit, if Alan will do that to his wife, what's stopping my husband from doing that to me? Yeah, they can disappear me too. They can disappear her and especially by 86, no charges have been charged. It just looked like everybody got away with it, which is crazy. So they go on to say the nearly successful murder cover up relied on the direct and indirect support of a group of police officers and other men who owed Alan Masters favors. It was also relied on the silent fear of the women who knew the men. - Right. - They said the case was not cracked by a failure of those police officers to keep the faith, but by information from a half dozen frightened women whose stories provided a map of suspects and events that led to knowing a lot more about this. - Couple of them know a couple of things, then we start piecing those puzzle pieces together. - That's right. - All of a sudden I see a picture. - I see a lot of picture. Well, suddenly etch a sketch is clear, nobody shake it. The women who spoke anonymously approached special investigators with bits and pieces of the murder story told to them by boasting husbands, boyfriends and co-workers. They're bragging? Fuck yeah. They think they're above the law. He's fucking guys. I'm the law. That's what they think. King Kong ain't got shit on me. As he said. So he said, our greatest uncredited intelligence sources were the women, Jack Reed said. He said it got started when these women said enough is enough if I stepped out of line. I might be swimming around in a trunk. The women who came forward according to Reed were the wives, girlfriends and co-workers of these men who worked in a variety of police departments, including Bedford Park, Justice and Summit and Hickory Hills, Irland Park and Cook County, as well as Illinois State troopers and the Cook County court system. Another of them will testify, but all of them will give enough information to be able to get verifiable evidence here. Reed said it was the men bragging about it, to tell your wife or girlfriend to keep quiet or the same thing will happen to you or I'm buying a big car to put you in the trunk makes an impression. Wow. He said they thought the women, I assume he means, thought what happened to Diane was wrong, but for the first few years they didn't know what to do with their information. They didn't know who to trust. As how would you? Reed said the women came forward slowly with information, gleaned from stories and jokes. He said we were bumbling around with no sense of direction until then. They gave us an outline of what happened. Now what happened was domestic fucking violence. They said that Diane was a victim or self of domestic violence. One of her friends said that she'd seen Alan shove Diane down a flight of stairs during the early years of their 10 year relationship. That's crazy. Another testified later that she often Diane often had grasping tight bruises after fights with Alan. Yeah. Um, arms neck. Yeah. Yeah. Despite the violence Diane wanted to present a picture of respectability. So she wouldn't show that shit or tell people about it. She'd put another fur coat on and act like that was fine. Some of the women came forward with information for the Diane masters investigation or victims of abuse also themselves. The women insisted their names not be placed in any police report and their identities will remain confidential because obviously you want people to be able to come forward. Now this goes hand in hand with a 1983 study by the Chicago law enforcement study group. They surveyed suburban and metropolitan police attitudes toward battered wives quote unquote. A significant number of those interviewed answered that the wife beatings were justified if the wife provoked the husband. Oh, lay. I don't know if you guys know this or not, but there's some good cops but there's also they don't get the best and brightest. A lot of times it's people who can't find another job or and that one has benefits or just got out of the military and is used to that kind of structure. Sure. Right. A lot of times it's not it's not you're the best and brightest all the time. There's some smart ones or some decent ones but and got a great education. They're going to take that education and apply it into a job that makes decent money. Yeah. That makes better money. So that's what that's what there was no they said the officers interviewed for the study identified male pride and female massacism as reasons that the batteries were sometimes justified. These are girlfriends of police officers who beat them are often afraid to tell anyone even social workers who are sworn to secrecy according to the director of the uptown hall domestic violence program. Well, that shows that their whole life isn't what it's a purports itself to be. But the massacism part relies on them enjoying it. They've enjoying it. Yeah. Maybe that's part of it. And if you were an abusive person who would you look for someone who will take it. You're not going to look for that chick who the first time you pushed her, she whipped out a switchblade and said, I'll cut you mother fucker. That's not the chick you're going to marry if you're an abused. You're going to look for the chick that says do it harder. Yeah. Exactly. More choke me too while you're doing that, by the way. So left here said that in her 10 years on the job, she's gotten two or three calls a month from police officers wives who rarely take their cases to authorities. They say these women are, they do seek an attempt, help an attend support group meetings organized outside the areas of where they live for fear of being caught by their husbands. Now this is what this guy Jack Reed finds out. Ted Nakaza, remember the guy who did the wiretapping and played the wine bottle tape for Alan? Well, he flips. He becomes a cooperator and gives investigators the wiretapped, the tape, the wine bottle conversation. Alan saying, I'm going to kill her. I'm going to stage a home invasion. I'll get Keating to handle it. I'll kill the dog in the cat. All of this shit he flips on. Oh boy. So now they have a whole other thing happen and then they get a guy named Jack Bachman here. The deputy, he's the deputy who was offered the murder contract by Keating. Keating was going around, the lieutenant was going around shopping a $25,000 hit to anyone who would take it. Hey, you want to kill a lady for 25 grand? He was the like the recruiter for this. It's fucking crazy. Why would he do that? Because he, him and Alan are in everything together and they thought they were above the law. So it was basically 25 grand to stalk and kill Diane. The assurance that Corbett in the Willow Springs department would handle the body. You just kill her, Corbett, the police chief, he'll get, he'll put it in the trunk and get rid of the car. You don't worry about that. All you need to do is kill her. Corbett said he won't kill her, but he'll dispose of the body. Okay. Bachman, this Jack Bachman explained his silence for the last few years as fear of exactly these consequences from these men. He's like, I thought they were going to do that to me, you know, he's like, I mean, it's pretty obvious. So I shut the fuck up. So Keating shops it around. He approached a former Cook County Sheriff's Police officer, Jack Bachman obviously offered him 25,000 and Bachman flipped laid out the logistics, you know, he said Corbett will handle the body. Bachman said, no. And then he'd shut the fuck up. He didn't say anything until 1986. Creating himself had been stalking Diane in the meantime, keeping an eye on her. Now this is what was supposed to go down, we find out. This is how it was supposed to happen. We got the whole thing. We got pretty much the whole thing from a confession that's not allowed into court. From later details of Michael Corbett and from bits and pieces from Bachman that he heard from Keating. This is the whole picture that gets put together here. Okay. Here we go. Diane was supposed to be killed on her way home or at a rendezvous with the boyfriend seeing killing both that be easy. This was on the night of March 18th after the board meeting problem is she didn't meet up with Jim because she was scared and told him more and them off and at the last minute the boards drinks place moved from the restaurant they usually go to to a different one. There was people waiting outside of the other place of the restaurant waiting to kill her and she didn't fucking show up nobody showed up at the restaurant. They didn't know where she was. Holy shit. Yeah. So that's a big deal. Now the community college here, Diane is there and all that kind of thing. That's what they were they were going there. Diane had specifically called and warned Jim off of drinks that night because Alan had spooked her. Meanwhile, this Genevieve cap staff, this nosy twat sitting in the parking lot, mind and other people's fucking pussies and decks there. Rub in her pussy this shit. She exited the meeting 40 minutes early and watched her go home. Watch your say her goodbyes and basically she followed her basically to the house, meaning she probably went inside the house if she was a hundred yards away, meaning that insurance policy would be null and void, except that she was found shot and they had dumped in the canal, which looks like she was shot out there in her car, right? That's on purpose. Now 1 to 2 a.m. at the house per the prosecutions, what they think happened. Alan is home with Andra. He's making long distance phone calls all night, which has phone records. So that shows he wasn't out all night doing anything. He's at home. The kill team had waited for her and he never, she never showed up. And so she made it home. This is according to the prosecutor. He said this, Diane Masters made it home that night and very much surprised the man who was home. He heard the door open and was like, what the fuck? How? I had her killed tonight. This is bullshit. So they think Diane walks in, begins undressing for bad kicks or shoes off, unbuttons or blouse, pulls down her pantyhose and they think Alan then went to it himself and hit her with a blunt instrument to blows to the head, they believe. The first they thought it was just in the back of the head and the cheekbone was broken from a bullet. Now they don't think that it was the cheekbone broken from a bullet. They think it was a shot in the face. So then Predon, Alan phones, chief Corbett. Corbett arrives with an unidentified accomplice. We don't know who. Diane is either at this point dead or dying, they're not sure. either way they place her in the trunk of her own. Cadillac the car is driven off and stashed in a garage near the Chicago sanitarian ship canal that they know of. Alan stays home with his daughter making more phone calls, making sure he's gone phone records is doing things. And then the housekeeper arrives to see Alan at home. He calls in the police report at 230. Then late that night at the canal, about, you know, 22 hours after the attack, the prosecution believes Corbett fired the two rounds in a red probably or has accomplished one of the two. They said basically the way they did it was 22 to the head two shots. That's a mob hit two to the head, Jimmy. Remember that? It's a mob. It's a signature point. Yes. That's what they think she may have been alive in the trunk, just in the garage all day. So this would make it look like a mob hit, which would take Alan off the fucking hook here. So it wouldn't read as a domestic violence attack anyway. So then they roll the Cadillac into the canal, done and done. Like a fucking card, like a card, fucking dealer. I'm out. Unbelievable. That's it. They think that Michael Corbett was responsible for dumping the car with the body in the canal and all of that sort of thing. That is the most fucked up thing I've ever heard. I think it's fucking awful. It's so calculated. Disgusting. It's one thing to have these disgusting plans to carry out yourself. But the more people are involved in some conspiracy, the grosser it gets. Like all these people are like, let's kill this nice lady. Yeah. Looking crazy. So also witnesses testified and we'll find out who that they saw Corbett and another man near the canal and the moments before they say Diane's body was dumped there. He was seen at the canal. Then basically what they did is spring and summer, they basically did a non-search spring and summer. Are you shitting me of 82? Yeah. Well, he was gone. I thought you were talking about two people named spring. No, no, no, I was like, what do you mean spring and spring and summer 1982? While that's when he was telling everyone she's probably shacked up and all of that sort of thing. That's when the brother brought everything. Now 1986 in May, Keating is on trial for corruption. Yeah. He is fucked. And he is going to be sentenced for taking bribes to connect mob connected shop shops and all this type of shit as a part of operations safe bet. Keating and former chief of the department's intelligence unit and Bruce Frash, the former chief of vice control were convicted of soliciting and accepting bribes from brothel and strip joint owners. And both were sentenced to use. They fuck off 15 years in federal prison. That's a good sentence, but he's so much scarier than that. Oh, he's got more. Don't worry. Yeah. That's just the first one. He's also married, but they found had quote several girlfriends. So yes, he does. That's why he's doing all this. Then there's other corrupt cops here, three other former members of the Cook County vice squad, Ronald Napura, Ronald Robert Wynick and William Collins were sentenced to six months in prison for accepting bribes to overlook gambling and prostitution. He is one of the men's attorneys called the called the vice unit quote a virtual toxic waste dump of corruption. The guy in charge is the most corrupt guy going Keating is one of the most scummy cops I've never heard of in my life is insanely scummy. So he is sentenced to 15 years and Keating allegedly, like we said, told the they talk about Keating how he's still on the hook for being a part of the Diane Masters murder because he told an undercover agent that it was pretty humorous that she disappeared in such a timely manner. So funny. The other thing we find out in an affidavit filed in US district court by FBI special agent Gerald Lee Bouton, Keating allegedly said Alan Masters had been questioned by police, but quote that he wouldn't have any further problems concerning the disappear of his disappearance of his wife. He's good. Yeah. I talked to him and it's fine. Nobody do. Bouton stated I have examined the file of Cook County Sheriff's Police regarding the disappearance of Mrs Diane Masters. James Keating was personally involved in that investigation. He purposely of course he was. Wow. Keating's affidavit further alleges that during the November 27th conversation between the Larry White, the FBI agent and Keating, the sheriff's lieutenant asked the agent if he had been approved by the outfit to open a strip joint in the summit area. So the cop asked him, hey, you've gotten approval from upstairs, right? The mob guy said this was cool for you to do this. This guy said that he had the consent, but needed to make contact with either the mayor or the chief of police. And Keating said that he talked with an attorney by the name of Alan Masters about getting this worked out for you. Keating claimed that Masters is quote a terrific lawyer who can get anybody off any beef because he pays cops, judges, and everybody else. That's on tape talking to an FBI agent. You fucking idiot. You moron. I'm so glad. I'm so glad he's stupid as shit. Right? If these people weren't so stupid, this would, you could totally hide this. Keating also allegedly said that he spoke with Masters concerning Larry White's plan and told Masters that Larry White would be coming to see him. Keating provided Larry, our Larry Winter White, his name Larry White, with two of Masters telephone numbers warning the agent that the attorney to contact the attorney quote on a safe phone. Hey, hey, Masters, I'm sending you a guy. Don't worry, he's not an FBI agent. I told him a lot of things. One thing I know he's not as an FBI agent, so you're good there. So what does Alan have to say? What did he tell him? Well, he's contacted by the South Town star newspaper here. And he said he'd like to review the allegations and I'll comment at that time. I'd love to see what they know. Of course. May of 87, federally indicted Michael Corbett now, the old police chief here for extortion and racketeering from his time as chief. He's going to plead guilty. Yeah, because he's a bitch. Yeah, he's well, he's going to flip to us. We'll talk about here. They also said prosecutor said Corbett had set fire to a Willow Springs nightclub in an insurance camp while police chief. Wow, that is crazy. He is, he is sentenced to you, sir, may fuck off four years in federal prison because he pled. Alan Masters this week labeled all of the, there was a television reporter's question of whether he saw his wife after she left the restaurant after that board meeting and he called that quote a ludicrous question. So ludicrous, it'll be at the state fair this weekend. At every state fair, everyone early 1988, Alan gets married again. Yeah, he marries his housekeeper, Janet Bauer, June 13, 1988, Corbett is arrested. He is arrested. He for the murder spot now. Yeah. And he confessed that he was the person who put Diane's car in the canal while saying I didn't know she was in the trunk though. Oh, I just got rid of the car. He said, he just sent cars. That was what he did. People paid him for it all the time. He doesn't know it's in the car. He said, this one happened to be occupied. What do you want from me? He's dealing with the mob his whole life. He knows what to say. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, how was I supposed to know? Well, any lawyer would have said that. Why would you open the trunk? You just, you just did that. You're already been, you've already gotten trouble for that. So it's not, that's not even a new thing. Keating was then arrested and then finally Alan Masters was arrested, charged with racketeering and bribery, plus planning soliciting, aiding and abetting the murder of his wife. To nobody is going to be like actual murder. It's all conspiracy to commit murder because they don't know who did it. Okay. So the federal government couldn't, they can't charge murder. That's a state crime. And this is a federal trial. So what can charge, thanks to Operation SafeBet and the guys who flipped, they can charge these three guys with constituting an ongoing criminal enterprise, a little mafia basically. And the judge would, you know, see if that will, we'll fly basically. So May 1989, Masters, Keating and Corbett all go on trial. All together. Together because it's a Rico case. It's like a fucking mob case, essentially. So they're charged with conducting an enterprise as affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity, which is Rico. And that's how they do it. They're both provisions of the Rico act, having other people, the conspiracy. The statute provides that enterprise includes any individual partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, and any union or group of individuals associated, in fact, although not a legal entity. And does that mean? Set it all on tape. So you're all fucked. You're all fucked. the statutory term pattern of racketeering activity requires at least two acts of racketeering activity. Okay, prosecution in the opening here. This is Attorney Assistant US Attorney Thomas A. Scorsa, and he said that murder is really a crime of control. He said Alan Masters feared losing control more than anything in the world. Divorce was a threat to his control over his wife, his child, and possibly some activities he was involved in, which Diane knew about, including helping prostitution and bribing judges, which she absolutely fucking knew about. They said Diane Masters made it home that night and very much surprised the man who was home. As she got undressed, maybe kicked off her shoes, that's when Diane Masters met her fate. She was struck by the same man who had struck her twice before in connection with her infidelity, Alan Masters. So he'd beaten her up before, as what did he say in there? The prosecutor said that they include in the trial the motive of a salacious sex tape, which is the audio tape, which has been destroyed, and which masters hurt his wife discussing the wine bottle incident. So they talk about all of this. They talk about 22 hours later. Corbets two shots make it look like a fucking mob hit blah, blah, blah. He said the body was then stuffed into the trunk of the woman's Cadillac and the car was hidden in the garage late that night. Corbett fired two bullets and they said that he shot the woman to cover up any chance that her death might somehow resemble a domestic quarrel. He told the jury that Alan Masters had vowed upon learning of the divorce plans to destroy her. They talk about Nakaza, the wiretap guy on the kitchen playback and the death sentence pronounced from the countertop that he would say, hey, I'm killing her. Bachman on the $25,000 offer, he comes forward and says they offered me $25,000 to kill her. That's the former cop. The operation safe bet tapes and agents establishing their enterprise. We have Genevieve Capstaff and her station wagon of nosy horse shit. She's there to masturbation machine. She said I was fucking two fingers deep when I saw her about a hundred yards from her home and I peeled off the insurance file. They claim that required Diane to have never come home was filed by him who she must have been home. So they have them on that too. So that's what I mean. The male fraud, right, that's all reached home, then doesn't it's no good anymore. Well, it's all of the claims. If it's all of this to to further a criminal enterprise, which it is, they've showed that it's Rico, then you're fucked. So he's so much trouble. He's in a lot of trouble. Now, the defense and their opening, they have to try to squash, squash some of this. They called, basically did a my cousin Vinny. Everything that guy said is bullshit. Bullshit. He said everything they said is phony is a three dollar bill. Oh, it's queer too. Did I mention that? He said that's what he said. He says that for defense lawyers, the tape made masters look less blame worthy. If she had provoked him and that there was a crime, it was a crime of passion. As what they said, reasoning, you know, that this is it's not. This isn't some massive conspiracy. It's a crime of passion. If that's what happened, which it didn't, by the way, I don't think it did. Yeah. He went on at the scenarios, you know, finer points. And basically, I mean, what the government put together is not what they're positive that happened. So it doesn't matter. But that's what they are pretty sure of. We're pretty sure this is about what happened. Yeah. The details they can tell us if they want to. Otherwise, this is probably right. All ears. Well, listen. I mean, couldn't be more ready to listen. If you want to be more specific, we'll change the charges. Glad we can, we can die. Gonna add. I can amend them. Face these ones. We can do those. The defense attorney tried to shift the focus of the trial away from one of the three men on trial, who was Alan, to the private investigator. Oh, Ted Nicasza, the one who did the wiretaps, he may have killed her, then removed her underwear. Do you know why? Because he's a freak who loves women's underwear. That's what the defense said. Now, he's a guy who's flipped and is going to testify for the prosecution. And he said that's who it was. He called, they called it their panty fetish theory. She was murdered strictly for her underwear. Those must have been fancy. Well, now we know that they're definitely weren't pantyhose underwear all in one man to be special. That's ruffles ain't doing it. Yeah. Wow. So the weird thing is later on, this is totally later on in an appeal, a judge, the judge keeps this, keeps this all out. And later said that he kept it out, not because it's just inappropriate. It's because he didn't think it mattered that he didn't think he thought it made this Nicasza guy, Nicasza guy, even less likely to do the crime because quote, this is in his, in his fucking decision, quote, transvestites are usually not murderers. So it's cool. That's what he wrote in a pit and that got published. It's he should be embarrassed. Yeah, I think he's dead by now, but still he should be embarrassed. While the jury was out of the courtroom, the judge listened to Nicasza's ex-wife. They're going to see if this can be heard by the juror by the jurors. Nicasza's ex-wife describe his underwear obsession. Wow. They did allow the ex-wife to testify in front of the jury, but not about the underwear thing. She watched Nicasza have an argument with an imaginary friend one time. The way what she called it, nobody, which he said, I won't do it. I won't kill anyone again. Okay. Now, there's also a secretary, a police dispatcher for West suburban McCook, who once worked as a secretary in master's law office and set on the witness stand that while he was married to Diane, she had an affair with masters too. So he has a lot of affairs. Robert Olson, a former Willow Springs policeman testified that just as he was coming on duty at 11 p.m. March 19, 1982, he heard two gunshots fired from the direction of the canal upon arriving there. He testified. He saw Michael Corbett driving away from the area where the body was recovered. Oh my God. However, FBI special agent David Parker testifies for the defense that during an interview in July or January of '83, this other cop implicated that he was standing with Corbett and another officer when they heard the shots fired, then the three of them headed in different directions to investigate. So we don't know which is true. There's also Clyde Snow, an anthropologist specializing in the examination of skeletal remains. And he said that she was probably struck first struck on the front and back of her head with considerable amount of force. He says he based the conclusions on the angle of the bullets and the fact that a cartridge from the gun used in the shooting was found in her sleeve. Like we said, then we get some dirty cops here. Vanneck, Buckendall, and Heine were all more than 20 years veterans with the police force here. During trial, it was revealed that Buckendall, a former vice unit commander, had been a partner in the late 70s with masters in the prostitution in the brothel. Then Alan Masters requesting they show all the autopsy photos and everything. Alan requests that he'd be excused during the testimonies. It's just too hard for him. May I please? I just need a minute. So he remained in the hallway while they went over everything. They should have said, no. Fuck you. No, we're all the jury us to see it with the fuck. Corbitt, who was already in prison when he was brought to the trial, told prosecutors that Alan Masters had asked him to murder Diane. He also admitted to pushing the woman's car into the canal, though claimed he did not know the body was in the trunk in court. Despite testimony during the trial that reported the gunshots there, he's always denied murdering Diane Masters and they have no definitive anything. The verdict comes in and the jury finds, let's see, masters and Keating guilty on both counts and Corbitt guilty on the conspiracy count, which is the only one he was charged with because the statue of limitations had expired on other violations that they were going on with him. Now the special verdict form gave jurors a checklist of racketeering acts to check off. They checked that Masters planned and solicited the murder. They checked Keating's eating, aiding, a betting and obstruction during the murder. They checked Corbitt's sinking of the car and the line for the murder itself, they just left it blank. We don't know who did it, so just blank on that. So they found everything they needed and just didn't decline to answer the last question there. So they are all found guilty like we said of all that stuff. Now June 89, the judge gives masters and Keating the same sentence here. Oh no, I'm sorry, different. Masters gets you, sir, may fuck off 20 years. years. And another 20 years and, yeah, 20 and 20 and, yeah, another 20 and so they end up with basically 20 years, but concurrent, 40 years, but concurrent. So it's 20 years. So they get back. Now, Keating gets 20 years and 15 years. So 35 years total. And corporate gets an extra 20 years. The judge also finds masters, $250,000 on the conspiracy count and ordered all three defendants to forfeit criminal proceedings of $42,000. Oh, these are all pre-sentencing things. There were other counts in the indictment based on the two Rico counts, but the jury acquitted them on those counts. Okay. By the way, where's their daughter? There we all this. What the fuck's going on? I hope Randy got her. Now, she lives with Jen Bauer at that point. Oh, the fucking new wife, the new nanny wife. So eventually, Randy will, I believe get custody of the kids and he will end up working out in arrangement. So the kids can see Alan and have contact with Alan, because it is their father. So there, that's whatever. I guess they want to when he felt bad. So they have, even after this, they have no, no one's been convicted of the actual killing. Wow. It's all conspiracy to do it, but nobody is actually, they didn't say definitively, this person's convicted of pulling the trigger and it doesn't happen. So masters appeals. Oh boy. He attacks the whole architecture of Rico, basically. He said, you know, how can a lawyer, two cops, be an lawyer and two cops be an enterprise? Is that not an enterprise? Well, now, there's also police departments and law firms attached to that, which makes it that helps. And the court, the statute says enterprise includes, not means an association, and an association will, in fact, will do fine. Do bribery schemes plus a white murder, a wife murder form a pattern? And the appeal says, yes, because the murder was, it was in the enterprise servicing its principle. So the conviction stand. But the sentence gets vacated on a technicality about whether the new sentencing guidelines should have applied since the conspire, a concealment conspiracy ran past the guidelines, November 87 effective date. Masters demanded guideline resetencing, doing the math that the guidelines would force a lower number. The court says, okay, resetencing. That's fine. You get that. So Keating, who had adopted all of master's arguments, also gets that same thing. Okay. So that sounds good. Sentence over terms, masters and Keating had argued that the judge aired when he sentenced them to prison for terms of 40 and 35 years respectively by not adhering to the 87 federal sentence and guidelines. Sentence over turn. Okay. Masters getting resentanced. His attorney argued that he should be resettanced to a prison term that would result in his release after 17 years to do otherwise would result in a prison term more than he could have gotten if he was sentenced to murder and state court. The attorney argued that under those guidelines, the seriousness of master's offense called for life in prison. Now the judge, what he does is sentences him to another user may fuck off 40 years in prison, but under new federal sentencing guidelines, which means that he must serve at least 24 years before he's eligible for parole now before he would have been eligible for parole in less than 10 years. So he he argued himself into much more into 14 years more, a much more substantial sentence. Yeah. And a maximum of 30 years before he gets the the parole hearing. So the stat the statutory max on the counts was 40 years. The court stacked them and gave him 40 years, which is amazing. So he's an idiot. He litigated his own stupidity there. Um, the judge one judge said judges and genies have this in common by granting supplicants exactly what they wish for. They may produce misery and regret. Yeah. Don't ask for a 10, 10 foot cock. Yeah. That's what you might want. 10 foot cock. There you go. All right. Now I put that in the bed of your pickup truck when you go to the store and enjoy. Oh, man. Um, so, uh, Keating tried to yank his own resettancing request back once he saw what happened with the court said, no, you file those vapors back in the fucking jail. So, uh, Diane Sister and log Randy's wife, Kathy said, you've got to be happy that he's he'll be in there longer. You got to love that. Yeah, that's good. Now there's been several books and shit on this, this case. Uh, one, none of them are on like none of them are kindle or audio or anything. They are order the hard cover made in 1991. That's the only way to get these books. Um, one is, uh, shattered hopes, a true crime story of marriage, murder and cover up in the suburbs by Barbara Shaft. That's on Amazon, uh, to buy the actual book. Another book is blind justice, a murder, a scandal, and a brother search to bear the truth. Also available on Amazon, not in any convenient way to read. Then in 1992, there's a movie based on the blind justice book called Deadly Matchermony, which is not the worst name for an episode of this show. No, not terrible. Um, it's about, it's about on the nose, isn't it? It's, it's a little on it's the only thing why I would go. It's kind of on the nose. Yeah. Um, so in this, they're, uh, Alan, by the way, is played by treat Williams, who looks nothing like Alan. Who the fuck is that? Look up treat Williams and tell me if he's a fat guy with a mustache. What are they doing right now? Right now. Check it out. Everyone at home. If you want to, uh, google with me, read your treat. Look up. It's about like trick or treat. Yep. The trick or treat Williams. What? He's, uh, exactly. He's a handsome guy. He's been in a ton of get. That's crazy. Absolutely not Alan. He got him. That's who played him. Fat guy with a big mustache. Played with that guy. Um, you know who played the, the honest cop? Who is it? He was a thin guy. He gets played by Brian Denehey. Thanks a lot. I know exactly. That is. Yeah. You made me a fucking fat alcoholic looking fuck. Thanks a lot. Appreciate it. Oh, man. That's messed up. Does she get played by Wilford Brimley? She get played by an actress. I don't know. All right. Um, ambith, um, yeah, South African born ambith Davids is David David with a TZ at the end. Holy. So that's who they, that's who they get to play here. I don't know who that is. But uh, yeah, they talk about the whole thing. Uh, treat Williams says there are certain people who start by breaking the law just a little bit. But for some, it remains just a little bit. But for him, it was like opening a floodgate. Yeah. Now I get to play him. Um, 1993. Uh, Alan is trying to take his request to hear an appeal all the way to the supreme court. And they say, no, thank you. We got to walk about. We're going to hear this thing. I, uh, 1990s Michael Corbett flips and becomes a cooperating witness against the mafia. Is he going to talk about a murder? He's going to talk about the mafia murders. Yeah. Probably nothing he's involved then. Right. But he's going to talk about a whole lot of shit other people did because he knows a lot of bad shit that happened over the last 30 years. He was connected to the highest guy in the whole Chicago mob. So he's in a lot of trouble if he does that. He is. But he also, uh, gets paroled or no, I'm sorry. Yeah. He'll end up getting paroled. Yeah. Um, a little bit of participation program. Yeah. Oh, well, not really because he does something that would disqualify him for that as we'll talk about Corbett. What are you doing? 1996. Will Alan get paroled? Okay. Well, they said apparently, uh, a US parole commission confirmed Tuesday. He'll have a parole hearing, which it's supposed to be 24 years before a parole hearing. It's been six seven. Um, the hearing was conducted by the commission's review board at a US medical center for federal prisoners where masters is an inmate. Um, the family is pissed by the way. I believe that's for their fucking pissed. Uh, Randy, he couldn't understand why the parole commission didn't inform him of the hearing that they had. At least tell me about it. He said considering that he and his family were under FBI protection as the case played out through the mid eighties. You could have at least fucking told me that this guy might get out. He said, I was always under the impression that I would be informed. I'm very disappointed. Uh, another township resident palos township resident Lee Harris, who served on the community college board with Diane, uh, said she was outraged when friends and family were not told of this. She said, this is a callous disregard for the local citizens who stood up and volunteered whatever information they had to law enforcement to help them put a very deadly criminal in jail. I would appear as, as, uh, as far as the federal law enforcement officials are concerned, once they have garnered a successful prosecution to hell with the concern and interest of those who help them with that successful prosecution. One has to wonder if the federal justice is a simply a numbers game. The numbers being that of successful prosecutions, not the safety of the public at large. Yeah, every prosecutor, federally, both, I have a 97% conviction rate. Well, yeah, everything set up for you in federal court. Of course you do. You'd be a fucking moron to not have a 97% conviction rate. Um, anyway, the spokesman for the federal borough bureau of prison said that masters became eligible for parole in 96, but has not received it. So they denied him parole apparently. Corbin on the other hand, he is going to be released from prison. They said he's set to be released in 1999. Yeah. The parole board heard his case in September of 97 and issued its decision on October 4th of 97. Corbets release is contingent with his continued good behavior in prison. So he gets out, moves to Florida and writes a book. Oh boy. Which that automatically puts you out of the protection program because you're writing your under your name. You're writing a book under your real name. Um, yeah, Henry Hill was already out of that when he wrote, uh, wise guy. And then that's that one. So the book he writes is called double deal. And he writes it with Sam Giankana's nephew, who's also named Sam Giankana. Yeah. A lot by the time the late 90s came around, all those guys that were kind of like the older guys were dead. Some of them were acting like they weren't in the mob anymore. And it's time to write books now. And now they all do podcasts. So who knows? Um, so, uh, in this book, he actually, you know, says that he was the one who put her, uh, put the Cadillac into the canal, just like he said in court. So October 9th, 2000 here. Um, Alan, by the way, had been in early 2000. He was transferred to the Peckin Federal Correctional Institution. Um, and, uh, he's apparently gets sick. And October 9th, 2000, he dies. Oh, good. Good. Alan's dead. You know, you ain't had to fuck off you dickhead. At least he died miserable. Yep. And a letter from the grave emerges. Stop it. Oh, we're going to get an answer to this fucking case by the way. We're going to get an answer. Prosecutors said that Alan Masters confirmed that he beat his wife to death with a pistol in the driveway of their home with a pistol. His statement was not allowed to be used at trial. That's why they had to keep this part of the thing as they weren't allowed to release this until he died. So once he died, they said, that's why they were fine with never killing getting a trigger man because they know they got the trigger man. Cause it was him. It was him. And, uh, so he's the one. He said she was already dead when, when he was, she was shot. The shot, the shooting was only to make it look like a mob hit. It was pointless. He just hit her in the face and the head with the pistol twice. Pist two pistol lips, crushed her skull. She was dead. Wow. That's fucked up. Um, July 27th, 2004, Corbett dies too of cancer. That it's 60. Good for you. Dick face. Um, Keating. I don't know what the fuck happened to Keating. I don't know why he's got to be dead by now. I hope I was born in 45. He's so he's got, he's not. He's in his early 80s. If he's not dead. Um, the master's kids, by the way, they believe that Andra ended up becoming a Chicago area attorney. Really? And both of Alan's sons were also, both said to have practiced law in the Chicago area as well. So all three of his kids apparently became attorneys. And the murder house, they just, someone, it was just for sale. So it just closed. Really? I just found it was closed. I don't know if it's the exact house or if they built a new one or what? It looks like it's got some newer stuff on the outside, but they could have just done the face of it. Um, cause it says built in and there's no built in date on here. Dash, dash, it's on a acre and a half, four bedroom, three bath, 2,229 square feet in ground pool and the back and all that. Very modest. Yeah, but nice. Uh huh. One and a half acres. Yeah. It's nice. I'm not sure. That's why I think it's probably a new house. I think there was a bigger house there. And they probably didn't do something or two. Uh, this house, those 675,000 bucks, it just sold for. So there you go, everybody. Palos Park, Illinois, holy shit. Is that a lawn road of when I said exposing corruption, brought those bribes and cold blooded murder in the beginning. I wasn't fucking around. So deep. That is a deep bass case. And I can't tell you guys how hard that was to put all shit to get. Oh, my God. My head's about to pop here. So thank you for joining us. If you enjoyed that, tell everyone about it. Get on whatever app you're on. Give us five stars. Netflix thumbs up as huge. Do that. It helps the shitload. So thank you, everybody that does that certainly, certainly listen to our other shows crime in sports, which we promise you don't have to like sports. You have to find us mildly amusing and like a crazy story. And you love it. And your stupid opinions, which is just fucking hilarious. So check that out. Listen to those. Follow us on social media. 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