 Welcome into another edition of the OG pod, another quick hitter coming to you from the OG command center here. We are going to continue. We're going to do a part two on unsolved Philadelphia mob murders. We are piggybacking off of the Philly Prime podcast and Dave Schratwizer who has been doing a series of interviews with retired Philadelphia police department crime scene investigator John Haggart. Haggart worked on about a half dozen unsolved Philly mob murders that are still being investigated by authorities and the FBI still would like to at one day bring against the skinny Joey Merlino crew, although the likelihood of that, in my opinion, is pretty low. But we're getting some new fresh insight into some of these cold case murders that span from about 1999 to around 2012. So on our last quick hitter, we talked about the first two murders that they they spoke about on Philly Prime, which was the murder of Long John, Marrano, who was allegedly looking to maybe make a move on Uncle Joe Ligambi, who was Joey Merlino's interim boss at the time, and then Ronnie Churchy, the former consular that was murdered back in 1999. Today, we're going to just give a quick some tidbits that came out of the interviews with Taggart related to the Johnny Gong's Casasanto murder, which happened on November 23rd, 2003. We're coming up in the 20 anniversary of that next month. And then the April 10th, 1999, murder of Gino Marconi, both mob associates that fell out of favor with the Philadelphia La Cosa Nostra, the Bruno Scarfo crime family, and ended up paying with their lives. So Johnny Gong's it's a pretty famous hit in South Philly was murdered in his own house in the days leading up to Thanksgiving, Oh, three. He had been out of prison for about a year or two. Had been a longtime romantic rival of Joey Merlino. Had fought on the opposite side of the war in the 90s, had been part of the stamp of faction that fought against the Merlino faction for power and Philly. When Joey and his crew take power, Johnny Gong's goes to prison. When Joey and his crew go back to prison to serve their racketeering sentences in the 2000s, Johnny Gong's comes out. Come came out in 01. And there were a lot of reasons, kind of a confluence of circumstances that most likely led to the Philly mob killing Johnny Casasanto. Johnny Gong's first was the fact that he was romantic rivals of a romantic rival of Joey Merlino. He had before Merlino married his current wife, Debbie. Johnny Gong's had dated her. And then there were a lot of rumors that when Joey was in prison, serving that first part of his 12 year sentence in the early 2000s, that when Johnny Gong's had come out of prison, that he started romancing Debbie Merlino again and had been out with her and around some of the Philly mob crew and was taunting them. There was also a talk of him bragging about murders that maybe he was either involved in or maybe wasn't involved in trying to take credit for. There was the fact that years before during the during during the power struggle of the nineties, he had shot up the house of Philly Ligambi, the brother of the acting boss, Uncle Joe Ligambi, and had almost killed Phil and Phil's young son. And then, you know, Johnny Gong's was just he was a real renegade, a rogue who didn't want to take orders. And it eventually ended up with him taking two in the back of the head in his own kitchen. So according to Taggart and the Philly Prime podcast, I think the one thing that maybe I think it had been out there, but now we kind of it's out there in a more robust fashion, I guess, that the investigators in that homicide had identified three suspects that are allegedly all made members of the Philly mafia that were seen on a surveillance security cam at a market down the street from Johnny Gong's house on the night that Johnny Gong's was murdered. And one of those people was somebody that Gong's had been in prison with and was friendly with and would have opened the door for. So the belief from investigators is that that guy came to the door, had two other guys with him. Gong's was friendly with the one guy that that knocked on the door, let him in, they turned his back to them to start walking into the kitchen and and somebody shot him twice in the back of the head. So that murder is still an open case. We're coming up on the 20th anniversary and then finishing off Gino Marconi, low level Merlino crew associate, drug dealer, bookie, what not, worked out of an auto auto body shop in South Philly. He was murdered outside of his house, gunned down from a rifle inside a van. And we learned from John Taggart that this van had been laying in wait for Marconi for about three days, that the van started to case the Marconi house from down the block. And as one day turned into two days, turned into three days, the van kept on moving up the block into different parking spaces to the point where it was directly across the street from Marconi's home. The van was outfitted with like a gun turret and Marconi and his girlfriend, Patricia Miley, walked out of the house to go out for the night and were gunned down. Miley survived it. She was shot a number of times, but survived the attack. Marconi was pronounced dead at the hospital. But both the murder weapon and van were set on fire. So you had the fire department, the police department and the FBI all kind of coming to the scene at the same time, according to Taggart, the fire department getting their first disrupted the crime scene. But Taggart thought because they had found the gun and the vehicle that they were possibly able to bring charges on this, they haven't. But it's also noted that Juno Marconi was had a mafia lineage, his dad, Mark Marconi and his his uncle, Fonzi Marconi had been made members of the Bruno Scarfield crime family. So, you know, check out Philly Prime Pod, check out Mob Talks, Sit Down News. Dave Schratwaz doing a great job deep diving these cold case murders. We'll do some more reviews of Taggart's interviews going forward. He's got a couple more murders to touch on and we'll be giving you all the insight that he's giving you. So for Jimmy, we'll be back on the long form version this week. And for Benny behind the glass, I'm Scott Bernstein, OG Pod out.