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A Tow Truck Driver Ran the Whole Town: The Moline Heights Racket
A Tow Truck Driver Ran the Whole Town: The Moline Heights Racket
A spiral-bound notebook found beside an unplugged chest freezer turned out to be a fourteen-month ledger that mapped out payments, tow trucks, and a system of calibrated pressure across a four-square-mile commercial corridor - forty-two businesses and zero police reports. How did a tow log become a debt ledger that quietly controlled a whole neighborhood, and who was coming back for the book before a paperboy arrived?
In this episode, we walk through the discovery at 5:15 a.m. on October 4, 2009, the notebook’s entries, and the…
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