Excerpt: 'Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss'

June 30, 2008— -- It's one the of country's most high-profile, unsolved crimes -- what happened to union boss Jimmy Hoffa? Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, the former underboss of New York's notorious Lucchese crime family, reveals shocking insider details about the inner workings of the Italian mafia to author Philip Carlo in "Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss," including who he thinks was behind Hoffa's infamous demise.

Click on the video to the left of this text to hear Carlo's account of "Gaspipe's" long list of crimes and bodies he left in his wake.

You can find an excerpt from the introduction of "Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss" below: