The call to dinner was the regular punctuation at the ends of my days of untroubled 4-year-oldness, which were spent contentedly playing alone in my little bedroom while Lora dutifully attended second […]
The Lawyer and the Hitman, Part 3
David and I continue our conversation about Konigsberg and he reflects on the fate of some other notorious mafia affiliates. I know that Sally Bugs was killed in a mob hit in […]
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Harold Konigsberg, the Feared Jewish Hit Man
Harold Konigsberg was a Jewish Mafia hitman from Bayonne, New Jersey. When he arrived in Springfield, “Kayo”—a nickname earned through his boxing chops—was serving time for receiving stolen goods and awaiting trial […]
Godfathers
Despite Clayton Fountain’s notoriety as a terrifying sociopath, he was not the inmate who had the greatest impact on our lives. I would not learn about Fountain’s ideology, the Aryan Brotherhood, until […]
Reminders
I think of my father every time I put on the grey moccasin slippers that I wear around the house, cushioning my arthritic, bunion-blessed feet with the high arches and cracking ankles. […]
Clayton Fountain
Dinner at our house was where I learned the word “President”. It is where Dad furiously ranted about something called Watergate and continued into fuming and venting about “thugs and crooks”. I […]
The Lawyer and the Hitman, Part 2
So, David never had to deal with Kayo again. “Thank God,” he says, with audible relief, before casually mentioning that he was a lawyer for John DiGilio, a high-ranking figure in the […]
The Lawyer and the Hitman, Part 1
“He called me up,” the man with the rich Jersey City accent begins. His deep, clear voice defies decades of cigar smoking and uncountable hours spent breathing through scuba gear. David Friedland, […]
The Gorilla Cowed His Keepers, Life Magazine, June 25, 1971
Editor’s note on page 3 *** Full article by Denny Walsh on pages 42-52 *** Ivan Fail inset page 48
Daphne Freise