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 | The Scharff/Freeman Murders Former Las Vegas Mobster Frank Cullotta and retired FBI agent Dennis Arnoldy discuss the 1981 murders of Ronald Scharff and Patricia Freeman in McHenry County, Illinois. |  | Las Vegas Old School, Crime Story Intro This is the opening for Crime Story Las Vegas, showing scenes from the 1980s with 20 year old 1960s cars as props. Just a little flavor of what it used to be like in Las Vegas 30 years ago. | |
 | Big winner at the MC Jen a big winner at the MC |  | BoomTown Boomtown: Once a Mormon settlement, Las Vegas was little more than a wind swept mining town when the "Big Three" hit in 1931. In that groundbreaking year, liberal new divorce laws threw thousands of unhappy couples to local dude ranches, where they whiled away a six week waiting period. Workers from the massive Hoover Dam project began pouring into town to drink in Vegas's sawdust clubs, and to visit the girls and tables of the notorious Block 16. Most importantly, '31 saw the legalization of gambling - the law that eventually turned a strip of Mojave sand into a freewheeling "American Monte Carlo" In this extraordinary program, The Real Las Vegas tells the story of Vegas's unique evolution, Rare interviews, photos and film recall it's wild early days. And insiders remember the city's most powerful players, including its would be kind, the high flying mobster Bugsy Siegel. |