Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Mafia Life Exposed: Beatings, Snitches, and Survival
27 May 2025
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You guys are freaking disrespectful. You let him a shoot at me. You, you're no fangulo. He's yelling at us like in Italian, this and that. Three days later, there's a sit down. You know, like we all heard about it. Frankie got a pass. I mean, half the shit I have, this is stolen. I was the go-to guy. That was my thing. Hey man, we just got a score.
They show me a diamond ring and I'm like, oh, that's a nice rock. We can cut this into like five rocks. So I go to my guy and my guy goes... Dude, I'll give you 20 grand for it right now. I call him up and be like, yo, my bad. He's only going to give you 15. I shouldn't be saying this now because guys are going to be looking back and be like, what a cunt bag, you know?
Born in Serbia, January 20th, 1969. Came to United States, 1970s. Grew up in Bushwick, Brooklyn. It was a big Serbian community, Romanian community. I'm half Serbian, half Romanian. My dad's Serbian. My mom is Romanian. Speak both languages. Why did your family come here? My uncle came during the 60s. We lived in the communist era.
And some of the family, basically, they didn't like communists, the Tito dictator. They didn't like him. A couple of my uncles got in trouble for cursing him while they're drunk. So the cops would come into the house like the Gestapo and throw you in jail. Right. The other ones were just out of necessity because we were farm.
We were peasants, you know, living on like farmland and, you know, taking care of the land or whatever. And my mom was barefoot and working in the field. She couldn't afford shoes, you know. So we came to America for a better life, you know. At least, you know, that's what my mom says. And my dad, you know, he was just happy the way he was.
You're not barefoot and working in the field. Hells no.
Yeah, yeah. So yeah, we came in the 70s. I grew up around a lot of Italians in that area, some Puerto Ricans, the neighbor who was touch and go. We moved to Ridgewood, which is right on the border. And long story short, my life was filled with a lot of trauma. My father was an alcoholic. He beat my mom. He beat me. He was sadistic. He'd burn me with cigarettes time to time out of a joke.
He would drink and be like, come over here, open up a jar of pepperoni, hot peppers, stick one in my mouth, and you know what? Just sadistic. I had a pet parakeet. He broke its neck. Sadistic shit. I'm just giving you a gist so you know. What did he do? At the time, he was doing two jobs. He was working at a meat market in this Italian meat market on Nicaragua.
And at night he was working in the maintenance, cleaning. That's what all, you know, the immigrants are doing back then. My mom was working in the knitting mills of Ridgewood and Brooklyn. So she'd be working piecework, which is you get paid like 50 cents to a dollar a dozen. The more dozens you crank out on the marrow machine or the Singer machine, the more money you get paid.
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