The Register Under the Dock: The Portsmith Harbor Racket

True Crime: Killer Secrets · Jul 26, 2026 · 22m

The Register Under the Dock: The Portsmith Harbor Racket

Low tide revealed a mid-century cash register wedged into an eighteen-inch cavity beneath Dock B - its nine-foot receipt tape would later list four years and two months of cash collections tied to thirty-eight berth-coded accounts. Who hid a mechanical register under a dock, and how did that tape become Exhibit Forty-One in a federal courtroom that unraveled a nine-year extortion scheme?

In this episode, you will hear how routine harbor work met an illicit payoff system: who found the register, who ran the collections, and how a…