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Thursday, February 08, 2018

Heir discovers long-lost mob files in New Jersey crawlspace

Previously unknown details about historic criminal cases -- including the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping and the infiltration of the Al Capone gang -- are revealed in thousands of pages of investigative files found in the crawlspace of a New Jersey home.

The original documents were inherited by physician Marty Dolan, who tells his family’s story on the latest Strange Inheritance with Jamie Colby Opens a New Window. .

The boxes of files were compiled by Dolan’s great uncle Mike Malone, a career Internal Revenue Service agent who died in 1960. They collected dust for 25 years until they piqued Dolan’s curiosity.

“I didn’t know what they were about, because I was young when he passed away,” says Dolan, who recalls his uncle as a mysterious figure. “He’d show up periodically to visit my grandmother. He had deep-set eyes. He had this fedora and overcoat, even in the summer.”

Dolan thought the files just contained boring audit reports. Then he noticed one titled, “Regarding Alphonse Capone,” and another, “Kidnapping and Murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr.”

Pre-Google, Dolan found it impossible to dig up details about mysterious Uncle Mike. Even a private detective didn’t help.

“No one could give me a feel for what I had,” Dolan tells Colby in the program. “It was a dead end.”

So he shelved the documents -- for what turned out to be another 26 years. Then in 2011, retired from medicine, he resumed his research project..

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http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2018/02/07/heir-discovers-long-lost-mob-files-in-new-jersey-crawlspace.html

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