The classic mob movie trope of 'cement shoes' is one we've seen time and time again on the silver screen, but it turns out that this seemingly made-for-movies method of corpse disposal may actually ...

NEW YORK — The victim washed ashore in Brooklyn, his body wrapped in plastic garbage bags, his head and hands covered in duct tape and his feet submerged in concrete — fitted with a pair of fabled ...

I’m sure you’ve heard the term “concrete shoes,” mobsters’ choice of swimwear for fellas with rodent traits and other individuals that ran afoul of them. Is there any truth to it? When your question ...

In E.L. Doctorow’s 1989 novel “Billy Bathgate,” the eponymous character is an Irish American 15-year-old who has fallen in with the wrong crowd. Living in the Bronx and working at a laundromat to ...