Naples and the Camorra: The Dark Rise of Italy’s Oldest Crime Power

Naples and the Camorra explores the real history behind one of Europe’s oldest and most powerful criminal organizations. In Naples, poverty, political corruption, weak institutions, and social unrest helped give rise to the Naples and the Camorra, a decentralized network of clans that controlled neighborhoods, gambling, smuggling, extortion, construction, drugs, and public contracts across southern Italy. In this mega episode of The Strange History Podcast, we cover the origins of the Camorra in prisons and street gangs, the famous Cuocolo Trial, the rise of Raffaele Cutolo, postwar smuggling, the aftermath of the Irpinia earthquake, toxic waste scandals, clan wars, an...