Backstory with Larry Potash

When pinball was illegal, he was called upon to prove it's more than a game of chance. That's when one shot changed it all.

A mysterious photo leads a man to discover how his father had survived two death marches during the Holocaust.

While many remember the DeLorean thanks to its appearance in “Back to the Future,” the story of its origins is just as entertaining.

How does a black detective go undercover to investigate the Ku Klux Klan? Ron Stallworth shares the amazing true story of how he accidentally used his own name, and talked his way into becoming a card-carrying Klan member.

Meet the man who accomplished the impossible: capturing a German sub at sea, helping to turn the tide of WWII.

For decades, Phil Cresta was the best thief on the East Coast. He stole millions and nobody knew who did it. After fleeing the law and the mob, he was found living under a fake name as a Chicago toy store owner. Not even his wife knew of his past— until he confessed to it all.

A member of an Ivy League secret society opens up about his unlikely recruitment, and how the myths surrounding such groups compare with the reality.

The Chicago American Gears were the city's first basketball champions — until their trophy was taken away, and a team with the makings of a dynasty was forced to disband. Founded in the late 1940s by Maurice White, the owner the Chicago American Gear manufacturing company, NBA legend George Mikan said the Gears were the best team he ever played for. They even won the National Basketball League tournament, but had the title taken away. Larry Potash spoke with the family of Dick Triptow, who played point guard on the Gears, and hoped to keep their memory alive by publishing "The Dynasty That Never Was" before he passed away in 2014. This is the Backstory of the Chicago American Gears.

Eliot Ness' files help separate truth from fiction in how the legendary G-Man took on Al Capone in Chicago, and jaywalkers and a serial killer called the Torso Murderer in Cleveland.

You've probably heard of how legendary mobster Al Capone's criminal empire was disrupted by investigator Eliot Ness and his group of "Untouchables." But what really happened in Chicago, and what was invented by Hollywood?

Brothers Michael and Jeffrey Gentile say their childhood was a cross between The Wonder Years and The Sopranos, where mobsters came over for dinner and some of the Outfit's most notorious bosses knew them by name.

Mickey Mouse may be the biggest paradox in pop culture: people love him,  but know nothing about him.

Pioneering code breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman took on the Nazis and the mob, but her story has been buried by secrecy and sexism for nearly a century.

Elfrieda Knaak's death was ruled a suicide, but how could a woman stick her own legs, arms and head in a furnace?