Tampa's Dark History

Mob bosses, serial killers, and the violence beneath the palm trees

Tampa wears its sunshine like a mask. Beneath the cigar smoke and pirate parades lies a century of mob assassinations, serial killers who hunted the working poor, bodies found floating in the bay with rope around their necks, and a bridge collapse that sent a Greyhound bus full of passengers plummeting into the water. The stories the brochures leave out.