Gary Jenkins, a former Kansas City police officer, is an expert on the local mob. Perhaps, the FBI thought, they’d find their smoking gun at the Villa Capri.

In the 1970s, a Mafia dispute over parking rights and a strip club in the River Quay ignited in a bloody free-for-all. A federal crackdown led to convictions of organized crime leaders in Kansas ...

Kansas City's Civella crime family had different ideas. The mob ran seedy night clubs and strip joints along 12th Street, but it was being sanitized and redeveloped.

Mafia history has deep roots in Kansas City; Kansas Citians can get an up-close and personal look at some of that history at KC Transportation Group’s “Kansas City Gangster Tour.” ...