Philly Prime Podcast

With just a couple of weeks to go, Trump vs Harris, Casey vs McCormick. Two huge races attracting lots of national and local attention in the red hot state of Pennsylvania. FOX29 veteran political expert Bruce Gordon joins the podcast to break it all down. The races, the TV ads and the candidates. Please Join us

It was a brazen Mob hit in broad daylight. 18 years later, it’s still unsolved, the killers are still on the loose and the motive unknown. Join Dave Schratwieser and mob expert George Anastasia as they break down the Gangland style murder of Philly wiseguy Raymond “Long John” Martorano and a handful of other Mob hits the FBI is still trying to solve.

Our first podcast kicks off as a new decade opens for the Philly Mob. Mob expert and author George Anastasia joins Philly Prime with a look at what's ahead, what's behind, who's moving up and who's falling in the ranks? The Mob's piece of the pie gets smaller, but the ranks are full. Where does that leave all the players? A look at where those federal investigations are headed or are the Feds spinning their wheels. All that and more on Philly Prime this week.

The 20-year anniversary of the murder of Philly Mob Associate Johnny “Gongs” Casasanto is coming up next month with lots of questions still unanswered and no one charged with the gangland style killing. Casasanto was gunned down in his kitchen after sources say he let someone he knew and two others into his Durfor Street home in the early morning hours. This is one of half a dozen mob hits that have gone unsolved since Mob Boss Joey Merlino and Acting Boss “Uncle Joe” Ligambi began running the Philly Crime Family from the mid 90s. Crime scene expert John Taggart, who processed the Casasanto crime scene joins the show once again to talk about what many describe as a Mob murder committed for many reasons.

Longtime Philly Mobster Raymond “Long John” Martorano was gunned down in a gangland style hit in January of 2002 in the Washington Square West section of Philadelphia. Two gunmen allegedly opened fire on Martorano’s Lincoln Towncar as he drove from his upscale home to a doctor’s appointment on Spruce Street. He had been out of prison less than three years. The unsolved murder made headlines for days. Martorano survived, but died several days later. There are multiple theories over the motive for the high profile murder. Retired, veteran Philly Crime Scene Investigator John Taggart processed the crime scene and the victim’s car. He joins Mob Talk Sitdown and The Philly Prime Podcast to discuss the murder.