His name was Stuart John Reagan, Stuart John Reagan, Jeword John Reagan, Johnny Reagan. In his teens, Johnny Reagan was already a violent pimp and standover man.
He was one of the worst human bodes that ever walked the Straight to Sydney.
By his twenties, he had a reputation as a psychopathic killer. Are you're ever looking for a psychopath? Reagan ticks all the boxes. Exactly fifty years ago, Reagan was slain by at least three assassins in the streets of suburban Sydney. His murder remains an unsolved cold case. He still considered Australia's last true old style gangster.
You can control a bad man, but you can't control I madly.
But few details are known about this short and dramatic life until now. I'm Matthew Condon, a true crime writer and journalist with The Australian. This is the Gangster's Ghost and in this podcast you'll meet relatives of Reagan who will speak for the first time in over half a century, and you will actually hear Reagan's voice from the grave.
You mark my words. I'm not playing your line. I'll give it your idea to tell them if you want to go through with them. If not, well you know.
For decades ours have previously unheard real to real tape recordings made by Johnny Reagan himself have only now surfaced. Come with us and the ghost of one of this country's most infamous outlaws on a journey into one family's dark past. If you thought every clan had a black sheep, wait until you meet the Reagans. Gangster's Ghost a podcast from the Australian coming soon at Gangster's Ghost dot com dot a you