Taming Lyons

Chapter 9: See Judy Win

1989-1993 // Election Night '89: Mayor Smith meets his maker. Mayor Judy cleans house. Judy's police make a monumental bust. Judy's battle makes national news, and puts h

Chapter 8: The Reckoning

1987-1989 // The Final Safebet Raid. USA v. Russo begins. In July '88, Thomas Gervais takes the stand. In 2025, Host Chris Kostrzak sets out to find the con man in WITSEC

Chapter 7: Lady Phoenix

1984-1987 // Tragedy strikes the Petrucci family household. A terrified Thomas Gervais runs for cover. Feds descend on The Strip. No More Bars scores a win and Judy meets

Chapter 6: Life & Death in Lyons

1984 // No More Bars members are targeted with violence. College student Philip Neri, 20, is found dead at the bottom of a quarry behind strip club, My Uncle's Place. Sus

Chapter 5: God Forgives, Outlaws Don't.

1981 - 1984 // Three bombs explode on and around the Strip, targets include a local Outlaw and Lyons strip club. Judy's daughter Gina fears she or her mother may be next.

Chapter 4: Safebet

1980 // Former Marine Thomas Gervais opens the National Credit Service. When business booms, and he's made an offer he can't refuse, Gervais is forced to make a fateful d

Chapter 3: Revelations

1979 - TIME TRAVEL - 1980 // Halloween Night 1979: the last vestige of Lyons' glamorous past burns to the ground. Judy goes to law school and beckons the FBI. Daughter Gi

Chapter 2: See Judy Run

1975 - 1979 // Outfit operations expand as Judy runs for office and goes back to school. A series of disturbing events offers Judy a glimpse into the menace that awaits h

Chapter 1: Heroes & Villains

2010 - TIME TRAVEL - 1975 // Family attorney Judy Petrucci collapses in court in 2010, and we travel back to Lyons in 1975, a “wide-open town” controlled by the Chicago O

Introducing - Taming Lyons

Taming Lyons tells the epic true story of Judy Petrucci, the tenacious Lyons Little League mom who risked her life and ran for mayor to help the Feds take down the Chicag