Wicked Wilmington, Delaware

Take a journey through crime and vice in twentieth century Wilmington, from a Tatnall Street bawdy house to the corporate boardrooms of the DuPont Company.

Visit the old New Castle County Workhouse, scene of a break in by a lynch mob and the daring escape of a notorious murderer. A police chief trying to keep his corrupt practices under wraps, agents raiding political headquarters, and a detective murdered on the street were all part of city life in the early 20th century. In later years, stories of a professional killer pleading self-defense, hiding his connections to a mobbed up Teamsters boss, and runaway lovers caught up in an international extortion scheme show the city's darker side.

Local historian Kevin McGonegal chronicles tales of Wilmington's infamous past.