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EPISODE · Nov 29, 2025 · 46 MIN

Edward "Eddie the Butcher" Cummiskey Jr.

from We Can Pedia · host Tristan Haze and Nathan Hugh Robért

If you're a New York mobster from the 1950's, what does it mean for your biographer to write that you talk like a New York mobster from the 1920's? Does it just mean that the way you speak is a bit out of date? The two circles 'boomers on Facebook' and 'extended families of gangsters' are discovered to coincide in a very attractive way. Tristan would have become a gangster if Goodfellas ended right after the Luftansa Heist. Nathan is struggling in London. Edward "Eddie the Butcher" Cummiskey Jr. (1934, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan – August 20, 1976, Chelsea, Manhattan) was a New York mobster who served as a mentor to Jimmy Coonan, leader of the Westies. Cummiskey is reputed to have shown Coonan how to dismember and dispose of murder victims by scattering their remains into the waters around the sewage treatment plant, which was operated by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection at Randalls and Wards Islands, notably in the Hudson River. Cummiskey was murdered by hitman Joseph Sullivan on August 20, 1976, in a bar. Theme music by Edward Lonsdale. Tristan on Instagram. NHR on Instagram. We Can Pedia on Instagram.  

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