From my Heart Media. This is Missing in Alaska, the story of two congressmen who vanished in nineteen two and my quest to figure out what happened to them. I'm your host, John Wallzac, March fourth, ninet, Tucson, Arizona. The sun is setting. The temperature sinks below sixty. There's a light breeze. It's early in the evening. At the El Dorado Lodge, a luxurious desert resort. A gorgeous tree line road leads up to a complex of old stone clad buildings.
Tranquil mountains lurk in the distance. Sitting at a bar is Tom Davis, a detective with the Arizona Department of Public Safety. He's joined by a supervisor and a reporter. They're all undercover. And that's say you shaped bar, and on one side is the public side. On the other side is a room and it's just you know, it's just an alcove. Well, if you set on the public side, you could see what was going on in the alcove.
Lo and behold, here comes this party and it's Jerry and his wife and his one of the people that he had gone to Anchorage with. And you know it for me being a brand new guy. This was fascinating. Jerry is Jerome Jerry Max Paisley, a thirty three year old murderer and bomber with close ties to two prominent mafia families. So we sat there and we just kept making notes and watching all the activities and the pictures being taken, and boom, it's noted that Jerry married Peggy.
Peggy is Peggy begat the widow of Congressman Nick beget at the time of the wedding. Did you know who Peggy was? I probably did, but I probably didn't put any significance to it. Were you aware at the time of the wedding that Peggy was the widow of a missing congressman? Uh? Yeah, but it didn't take it seriously. Why because it was it was an accident plane crack
pause for a minute. Let this sink. In. Sixteen months and sixteen days after her husband, a U S congressman, disappeared in Alaska, Peggy Begett married Jerry Paisley, a mobster, at a wedding in Arizona. It sounds sensational, It is sensational, but I want to be clear it's true. It's not some baseless conspiracy. It did happen. I have a copy of the marriage license and photos of the reception. In fact, I have the original photos. Tom Davis gave them to me.
The pictures I gave you with Jerry. That's the last I have unless I resurrect. Uh. Those are the originals I took and sent to you. But you can look at the paper and tell that that came out of the book, out of the Bible. This is from your bible. Yep. That's the last existing piece. Davis, who had to distinguished thirty six year career in law enforcement, worked on a small team that battled organized climb in Arizona. He had a secret book, a so called bible, which listed about
a hundred local mobsters and their associates. In the bible was Jerry Paisley. Man Paisley, Where to start? He's so important to this story. I need to tell you about him, his history, his personality, his shocking laims. But I don't want to glorify him. He was a murderer and a bomber, an abusive, violent man. He doesn't deserve glory. Paisley was born in Detroit in nineteen forty one. He grew up in a bad neighborhood. As a teen, he enlisted in
the Navy. I don't know much about his early years, just bits and pieces I picked up along the way. But I can share with you an incident that occurred when he was nineteen, a violent attack that illustrates the rough, jagged nature of his life from birth to death. On May three, nineteen sixty, Paisley was hitchhiking in California when four men accosted him using either a razor or a sharp piece of glass. Paisley wasn't sure which. They carved
a four inch cross and two letters ZS into his arm. Thankfully, the wounds were superficial he didn't need stitches. Two years later, after the Navy discharged him, Paisley returned to Detroit. That's where he started working for the lick of Oli Family, an organized crime syndicate led by Pete Horseface lika Oli Senior.
That's also where he befriended pete seniors sons, especially Pete Jr. In fact, the two men got close enough that in nineteen seventy four, Pete Locooli Jr. Attended Paisley's wedding to Peggy Begat Pete Jr. And his wife Cathy even traveled with Peggy and Paisley on their honeymoon in Mexico. The lick of OLiS were a mid tier mob family, nothing special mid century. They moved from Detroit to Tucson. Paisley went with them. Soon thereafter, another much more famous mafia
family also moved to Tucson, The Bananas. Remember Vito cor Leoni. Marlon Brando's character from the Godfather. Cor Leoni was based in part on famed mafia don Joe Bonano Senior. During the sixties in Tucson, Paisley befriended Banano's sons Bill and Joe Jr. He was captivated by the family's flashy infamy and gritty glamour ine. He even made a brief cameo and honor thy father. A best seller on the Bananas written by legendary author Gay Talise. I asked Talise, who's
eight eight, if he remembers Paisley. He said he doesn't. That was a long time ago. The Bananas were not only celebrities in Tucson, they were well known throughout the nation. Joe Sr. Was quite literally the Big Cheese, a nickname he got by sinking his teeth into the dairy industry. Laugh, go ahead, but there was a lot of money to be made in the cheese trade, counterfeit, mazzarella, money laundering,
stuff like that. Bonano was a big deal, one of the most important mafioso's in American history, the patriarch of one of the so called Five families which dominated organized crime in New York City during the early twentieth century. Bonano saw himself as a gentleman. He liked to say that he lived by old school values. Booze but not narcotics. Murder, sure, but only if you deserved it. But he distorted reality.
The Banano family was brutal. They were violent gangsters. They maimed and murdered, and bombed and extorted and kidnapped and committed fraud. Later, they tried to rehabilitate their image, But Joe Banano didn't become Joe Banano by being a polite man who just dabbled in bootlegging. For three decades from the nineteen thirties to nineteen sixties, Banano held an iron grip on his family. His stranglehold began to unravel in the mid sixties when he got greedy and tried to
assassinate rival mob bosses. The plot failed, igniting a bloody mob war called the Banana War, or, as the press sarcastically dubbed it, the Banana Split. See. One of Banano's nicknames, which he absolutely hated, was Joe Bananas, hence the name of his signature war. At one point during the war, Banana was kidnapped and for while he disappeared. It's thought, though, that he staged the kidnapping in order to avoid testifying
before a grand jury. When he eventually resurfaced, he decided to make a strategic retreat to Tucson, where he quote retired. But that was bullshit. He was diminished, but not dead, and he certainly wasn't retired. I know, I'm throwing a million names at you, so let's recap. We have a Jerry Paisley, who married Peggy Beget, the widow of Congressman Nick Beget, in nineteen four b The Lick of OLiS, a mid tier mob family from Paisley's hometown of Detroit
who relocated to Tucson and for whom Paisley worked. And see the Bananas, a famous mob family from New York who also relocated to Tucson and for whom Paisley also worked, Jerry Paisley, the Lick of Olies, the bananas, They're all tied together. But why Tucson. It seems random, right, an odd place for the mob to me. Not really, It's sunny, it's pretty removed from the violence of Chicago and New York. In Detroit, it makes sense, and Arizona had lacks laws
which allowed the mob to easily launder money. Arizona was Switzerland in the United States. Arizona had a blind trust system in his banking system that allows people to hide moneys here just as effectively as they could in Switzerland. And the blind trust accounts that could be set up with laundered money the bank accounts themsels could also own real estate. And when I first began working over here in nearly seventies, Peccati was owned by number and nobody
knew who owned anything. It was all through blind trust accounts at a bank. That's Don Devereaux a seasoned investigative reporter in Arizona who covered organized crime for decades. He's best known for his never ending investigation into the nineteen seventy six assassination of reporter Don Bowles, who was killed in Phoenix by a car bomb. Something will cover later. Devereaux also dug into both the Banano and Locavoli families.
With two major mob families in Tucson, you'd figure there would be some bitter rivalry, so many angry egos crammed into a small desert city, but that wasn't the case. We're looking Holy moved out here from Detroit, and he was a friend of Joe's and and and writed The Look of Religion. Lots of rolling people from around the country to move to Tucson and the Phoenix to retire. Look at really largely came to the Tucson area to retire.
But Ana was still active when he was at me too, so but look a Holy largely had left Detroit behind. And there was a retired bob guy living comfortably in Tucson, um on a place called the Grace Ranches they called with his family. Uh and close friends and close enough they know they shared the same accountant um they were. You know, there were secrets between those guys. They were both friends and not competitors, and you know, happily you know,
seeing each other as good friends. Yeah, even though the Bananas and Look of OLiS maintained peace between their respective families, their presidence was detrimental to Tucson as a whole. In the late sixties, the city became a hot spot for mob violence, most notably a series of high profile bombings. Many of these bombings were tied to extortion attempts, insurance scams, and vigilante payback. The motivation behind some, though, was more complicated.
In July, the homes of both Joe Banano Senior and Pete Lacavoli Senior were bombed. There was a war started between Banana and Lukavoli by a rogue FDIH named David Hale. Back in the day, Hale began planning bombs on most of Banana and the look of Holy people as if they were fighting back and forth between themselves, trying to start some sort of an internet scene mob war between Lukaolian and It obviously didn't work, and David Hale got exposed as having you know, done this himself as an
FBI agent. David Hale denied that he was behind the bombings. Hale was never convicted of any crime tied to the bombings. He didn't respond to interview requests in night, someone also bombed the house of a prominent judge named Evo Diconcini. DeConcini had been friends with Joe Banano, but later, when his son Dennis was elected to the U. S. Senate, he distanced himself from the mob boss. I just said someone bombed Judge Deconcini's home. But guess who that someone was.
Jerry Paisley, the same Jerry Paisley who only six years later would marry Peggy Baggage. Several sources told me Paisley was behind the DeConcini bombing. Paisley was something of a fixer, they said, a wanna be gangster. He was technically a mobster, but low and seniority, more the guy you turn to to break some legs or chuck some dynamite over a fence than the mastermind of any operation. To my knowledge, he was responsible for at least three bombings, including the
DeConcini bombing. So how on earth did Jerry Paisley, a mobster who bombed to judge's house, end up marrying Peggy Begett, the widow of a missing congressman. How did they meet? The official story is this in late nine About a year after Nick Beggetts vanished, Peggy was with a friend at the holiday in an Anchorage when she ran into Paisley, who was tending bar. They hit it off, and a few months later, in March nineteen seventy four, they got hitched in Tucson. I've already told you why the mob
was in Tucson. But why was the mob in Alaska in the seventies. Why was Jerry Paisley in Alaska in the seventies? One word oil. After the discovery of oil
in nineteen sixty eight at Prudeo Bay, Alaska boomed. Everything in modern Alaska history can be split into pre nineteen sixty eight and post nineteen Pre nineteen sixty eight, Alaska was scenic and had timber and bears a stereotype, sure, but people in the lower forty eight didn't really care about it except for its natural beauty, some of its resources, and at the height of the Cold War, it's strategic
location near the Soviet Union. Post ninety eight, Alaska was an oil state, a state with immense wealth waiting to be tapped, a state with mounds of money just waiting to be pumped into people's pockets. Pre nineteen sixty eight, there was crime, but wasn't exorbitant. Post ninety eight, it boomed. Pre ninety eight, you could still find affordable housing. Post night with a crush of new workers, you couldn't. It was during this boom atmosphere in nineteen seventy that Alaskin's
first elected, Nick Baggetts, to the u. S. House. Beggetts had run a campaign promising to maximize oil prosperity, but importantly, he also acknowledged the problems that stirred up. Here's an ad he ran in nineteen seventy. You don't have to be an economist to know that we have a critical housing shortage. All you have to do is try to
find a place to live. Five years ago, the typical monthly payments for a twenty thousand dollar home would be about one Now, a twenty thousand dollar home that's if you can find one, would be well over two dollars a month. America's leading housing official recently stated that less than of Americans can really afford to buy a home. That's the problem nationwide. The last situation is worse. There are practical solutions. Nick Beggatch finds practical solutions as a
state senator. He's been doing it for eight years, and he's been vocal about it. Nick begat has always wanted you to know where he stood. He still does. Nick beggat is Alaska's man for Congress. Beggatte went on to help pass the Alaska Native Claim Settlement Act or ANKSA, a monumental piece of legislation that removed a major obstacle blocking construction of the Trans Alaska Pipeline, but the pipeline
still faced countless legal, political, and environmental hurdles. It wasn't until March nine, two and a half years after Beggett's vanished, that construction finally began. Poor morning. After years of planning, court fights, and stockpiling of materials, construction of the Alaska Oil Pipeline begins. It will run almost eight hundred miles from the North supe of Alaska to the port of Valdes. The pipeline is supposed to be finished in about two years at a cost of at least six billion dollars.
The Big boom is already underway in Alaska. Asked the people in the city of Fairbanks, for example, Jack Perkins did, and here is his report. It used to be in fair Banks that keeping the snow shoveled half the roof was one of the main problems. But today, with the coming of the pipe loving, Fairbanks is a boomtown and there are new problems they never thought of here before. Used to be in Fairbanks you can make a telephone call right away without having to try for an hour
without getting buzzed off. But with the pipeline, the local phone system is flooded with more calls than a year ago and can't handle them. Used to be, you could get an apartment, nothing fancy, but sheltered for a couple hundred dollars. Now rents have doubled and tripled, one bedroom five hundred a month and hardly anything available. Vacancy rate
in Fairbanks about zero. And consider crime rates. Always a drinking town, but arrests for drunkenness now up a hundred and thirty five percent, juvenile arrests up fifty robberies up a hundred and twenty three percent, and with all the pipeline workers passing through town with their rolls of money, prostitution arrests up seven percent. Many of the people who moved to Alaska long before the oil boom were upset
to see the pristine home changing so rapidly. What you're getting here, of course, is what is what they call progress, isn't it? Now that's one name for it. I've heard other names for it which might not be arable. It happens to sit. Is this bursting and straining toward what is sometimes called progress? But maybe nowhere has it ever happened so much and so fast. And it's not just the people of Fairbanks weren't ready for it is there? Many of them don't want it at all. Jack Perkins,
NBC News, Fairbanks, Alaska. Two years later, in June nine, construction on the pipeline wrapped up. Oil Mania reached a fever pitch. Now the richest could really flow. There's oil in the pipeline, the Trans Alaska Pipeline. This evening pump station number one at Prudeoe Bay, two hundred and fifty miles north of the Arctic Circle today began pushing heated crude oil into the pipe. Don Oliver was there here. It is finally finished after eight years of planning and building.
The oil companies rattled off all sorts of superlative statistics about it. Eight hundred miles long, built by a peak workforce of more than tw thousands from one end to the other, it will hold three hundred and eighty million gallons of oil. The cost nearly eight billion dollars, the largest most expensive project ever attempted by a private enterprise. Okay, so again, by this point it should be blatantly obvious why the Mob and Jerry Paisley specifically came to Alaska
in the seventies. Oil oil is what drew the Mob to Alaska. Oil is what drew Paisley to Alaska. It was a black gold rush. Here's Mike Grimes, a retired cop who worked for the Anchorage Police Department. That was the period when Alaska was just booming. It was like a goal rush count because of oil pipeline being constructed, so much money up there. They had such a dramatic increase in population, and everybody coming from somewhere else, uh to get rich in Alaska. And so it was a
very fascinating time to be working vice. And there was only three of us on the vice squad at that time. And uh, we had such an influx of prostitutional vainly off the West coast. So the prostitution industry was just booming up there on the gambling that we were having people come from all over with organized crime behind them from other states and set up underground gambling joints in Anchorage and uh and then after hours clubs that were
illegally serving alcohol. So we were inundated for the three man vice squad. It was a wild time and Paisley and the mob wanted to cash in drugs, sex work, you name it. Paisley moved to Alaska nineteen seventy three with his close friend Sal Spinelli. Like Paisley, Spinelli was a mobster with ties to both the lick of Oli and Banano crime families. When Paisley wed Peggy beget in March n Spinelli was his best man After the wedding.
When Peggy, Paisley, and Spinelli returned to Anchorage, Spinelli opened a jewelry store with Peggy's oldest son, Nick Begett's Jr. Multiple law enforcement sources told me the store was a front for stolen jewelry, including turquoise traffic from Arizona to Alaska. Nick Begats Jr. Now a well known conspiracy theorist, was only a teenager at the time. He declined interview requests.
He was never convicted of any crime pertaining to the theft of jewelry, and again, he was only a kid, a kid who lost his dad and ended up with a violent new stepfather, Jerry Paisley. As Paisley settled into married life, Peggy Begett now Peggy Paisley, showered him with money. After Nick, her first husband, disappeared, Peggy had received a
windfall of cash. According to documents I found archived at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, there was a fifty five thousand dollar life insurance policy which had a double indemnity clause for accidental death, so a hundred and ten thousand dollars from that, and there was a one time forty five dollar benefit from Congress, plus the balance of Nick's
checking in retirement accounts. Altogether, Peggy got at least a hundred and fifty eight thousand, four hundred and thirty one dollars and seven cents, about a million dollars today when adjusted for inflation. She inherited other things too, including apartment buildings. Peggy spent much of that money on her new husband and Paisley. The newlyweds honeymoon in Mexico. They were joined on that trip, as I said earlier, by Pete Lacavol Jr.
And his wife Cathy. Peggy bought Paisley expensive jewelry and fancy cars too, including a Cadillac El Dorado and a Jaguar x K. She also bought him a bar. In May nineteen seventy four, two months after Peggy and Paisley wed, they started a business called Max Inc. I obtained the company's records from the state of Alaska. Peggy was the president, Paisley was the secretary treasurer, and another man whom I'll
discussed later was the vice president. Max Inc. Operated a bar and anchorage called the Alaska Mining Company, the type of watering hole that minted money during the oil boom. It had previously been called the Green Dragon. Here again is Mike Grimes, the retired Anchorage cop who worked vice
in the seventies. I heard Paisley was involved in the it's called Laska Mining Company before it was a reading dragon, that he was involved in that place with the Beggy just and I said, God, what are they doing this scumback? You know, because uh, I mean, I was a lifelong Alaskan Nick Beggy towards my congress. Peggy and Paisley's marriage wasn't exactly common knowledge, at least to the general public, but a good number of politically connected folks and members
of law enforcement knew about it. Perhaps this is a good time to pause to examine why the marriage is even newsworthy at all, because I know what people will say. They'll say I'm reporting it because it's salacious. They'll say I'm trying to sex up this story in order to sell it. But that's not true. They don't know what I know. At first glance, Peggy Begett seems to be a sympathetic character, a woman whose husband vanished, a woman who became a single mother to six kids, a woman
who's now a grandmother in her eighties. Typically her personal life would be none of my business. Sure, she ran for Congress several times after Nick disappeared, so she was for a while a public figure. But that's not why I'm reporting this, So bear with me. We have a ways to go. I also want to be clear about something else. I'm not reporting everything I know. I learned a lot, but certain things, while salacious, aren't pertinent to
this story, and I'm purposely leaving them out. Also, one more thing, Mark beget, Peggy's son, served for six years in the U. S. Senate. So let me say too that I have no political agenda here. In fact, I think Mark was a good senator, and he was just a kid when all of this happened, a kid traumatized by the loss of his father. Peggy Beggett and Mark Beggett declined multiple interview requests. Living large on Peggy's money, Paisley spiraled out of control by nine six. He was
heavily into drugs, was married to Peggy. He just couldn't leave a cocaine alone. And it's since the cocaine and the women and this and that, and it just it was terrible to to watch the deterioration of his and Peggy's relationship. I felt sorry for Peggy, you know, and she got herself into something that she probably had no idea. Do you know if she knew of his background really when they got married. I would say she did not, but I have no way of knowing for sure. That's
Paisley's friend. George Schaefer. I've known Paisley since the early sixties. I probably knew him better than anybody in Alaska. Schaefer met Paisley in Arizona sometime around nineteen. He owned a bar, it was called the Cabaret Lounge in Tucson in Arizona, and at that time, there was a lot of things going on with the well, there was all those bombings
in Tucson. They were there was a group of people that were coming in and trying to get a protection racket on with some of the local bar owners around the town. And I was kind of brought in and used as a little bit of a muscle for them. Just they were coming in and intimidating the bar owners themselves and just trying to get them to pay protection money like they did back east. Who doesn't work that well in the West. So that's how I originally met Paisley.
He was kind of on the other side, and we kind of became friends, but not not to any great extent. When you say he was quite of on the other side, what do you mean by that, Well, he was associated with several of the so called mafia people, mainly the Nanos and and Lickabli. Paisley, Shafer said, was a quote crazy person wherever he went because trouble as far as the deal with Peggy she did by him that mining company, which is the bar. I guess you don't. You're well
aware that I got shot there. I don't know the details. I do know that you were shot there. Okay, Well I was shot there by somebody. You know that no one knew. I mean, it was just a an incident that I was in the wrong place the wrong time. Pasically, he had a partner in the bar long you know, his wife gave him that more or less as a wedding gift. As far as the ownership in the bar, his partner was a real straight ace guy, would never
break the law. In fact, when I went there to go to work, the only reason he called me in is because his regular bouncer from Phoenix, ron Moawyer was his name, and he had cleaned the bar up as far as riff raff and all that. Well, he he worked two years, had to go on vacation. Jerry wanted me to work there for the two weeks while he was on vacation, and I originally said no, and then he talked me into it anyway, So I was just supposed to be paid under the table for two weeks
and his partners, Oh, no, we can't do that. We need to put him on the payroll. Yeah, we gotta keep everything above board. And so I was lucky that I was on work in the cop when I got shot. But Danny Ziminich was the guy's name was partner's name, Daniel Max. Zevinich was the third person who had an ownership steak in Max Inc. The business Peggy and Paisley started after they got married. Sevenich was the company's vice president. The company was called Max Inc. Because both Zivinich and
Paisley shared the same middle name. Max Zeveni is a key figure in this story, someone you'll hear about in later episodes. He's still alive. He owns a popular bar in Anchorage. He declined multiple requests for an on the record interview. In late nineteen Peggy and Paisley got divorced. Newly single, Paisley moved back to Arizona. For the next fifth teen years, he was in and out of prison
on a variety of charges, including aggravated assault. Sometime around he was paroled and he got a job in Phoenix selling cars. There was a deal or another guy got out of prison that he was in with. After a few months they got together and there was a gal involved a little bit. I don't know. He's told me the details and I have forgotten them, except that he ended up killing that guy and was going to kill
He told me that he pointed the gun. I guess he killed a couple of guys, two of them in the front seat, and he pointed the gun at the girl and it jammed and didn't go off. Uh so he didn't kill her. But anyway, now he's wanted by the law. And that's when he came to live with me, just for a few weeks, and I got him a job where they didn't even want to know his name
and it was cashing to the table. Well, he he destroyed any anything, any kind of friendship we ever had because he ended up robbin some people while he was there. And of course he left left my truck at the Seattle airport. I was on vacation, left my truck at the Seattle Airport. I had to go get it and then I had to explain to the sheriffs. But there was that he was on the ten most wanted and they called him jealous Jerry. Well, he got so mad
about that because that wasn't a story at all. He had nothing to do with the girl or he he didn't have any affair with her or nothing. But so that's motivated him to turn himself in. And that was in. You just heard Schaefer say Heisley was on the ten Most Wanted list, presumably the famous FBI list. Other people told me Paisley was on America's Most Wanted. Neither is accurate. In fact, Paisley was on a show called Prime Suspect. Think of it as a kind of rip off of
America's Most Wanted. We tried to dig up the segment to share it with you, but we couldn't find it. When it aired. Sometime in ninety three, Paisley was living with George Schaefer, hiding out from the cops in Eagle Creek, Oregon, about thirty minutes southeast of Portland. By that point, he had murdered at least five people, and he still had murder on his mind. I'll tell you another interesting story before we go, just like if you're interested in it.
It was an obsession to Jerry Head. While he was in Oregon. He was obsessed with wanting to kill a dentist in Safford, Arizona, and evidently the dentist had done something to him. Farley was in prison in Arizona. He was sent down there to have a tooth pole or something, and a guy wouldn't give him enough novacaine. And then he told Jerry, I'm here to State to extract pain on you. I make you feel good. So Jerry was obsessed with that, and he sware someday he was going
to kill a dentist. Paisley didn't end up killing the dentist. Instead, in March, he turned himself in. He was subsequently convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. By late Paisley was fifty three. He had no chance of getting out, no chance of leniency or reduced sentence. He was going to die behind bars. That's when he figured, fuck it, what do I have to lose? And he started talking next time on missing in Alaska. That blow him up. I don't know that JB have him blown up. I
don't know. I know I took a fucking package up there and they said it was a bum. They might have been bullshit me. Here are your three tasks for the week. First, I'd really like to get a copy of the episode of Prime Suspect that featured Jerry Paisley. I know it aired sometime between June and March. Help me find it. Second, I'd also like to get a copy of a nineteen one special report produced by k g u N, the Tucson ABC affiliate, called The Big
Cheese Joe Bonano's Notes. Finally, I mentioned earlier than an undercover reporter witnessed Jerry Paisley's wedding to Peggy Baggage. I believe that reporter is still alive, possibly living in the UK, but I haven't been able to find him. His name is Alex Dressler d R E H S L e R.
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