Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa are two former New York Police Department (NYPD) police detectives who worked on behalf of the New York Mafia while they committed various illegal activities.

"Blood and the Badge" by Michael Cannell is the tale of two NYPD officers who were paid to provide information and even kill for the Mob.

Author Michael Cannell joins us on the latest episode of The Untapped New York Podcast!

Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa were two decorated detectives who secretly served as mafia informants and paid assassins in 1980s Brooklyn. For more than a decade, Eppolito and Caracappa ...

Or even kill for them? That's exactly what happened in mid-1980s New York, when two NYPD detectives, Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, provided Lucchese and Gambino crime "bosses" with insider ...

Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa were two decorated detectives who secretly served as mafia informants and paid assassins in 1980s Brooklyn. For more than a decade, Eppolito and Caracappa leaked ...