what s going on in those stables for years and years and years. the stables were a magnet to attract wealthy people for fraud and a witch s brew of criminal activity. while they are advertising boarding your horse and show jumping there is ah whole other world there? yes. the pomp and circumstance was the tip of the iceberg. immediately below the surface were predatory criminals who really lived as if they were in the wild west. the lords of this underworld were the jane family. i guess i would describe them as the horse mafia. they are the granddads of all of it. cathy olson, cathy jane olson no longer associates with her family. they will always stay on top. the underworld dated wac to the 1930s when the jane family began shipping in horses from
stables for years and years and years. the stables were a magnet to attract wealthy people for fraud and a witch s brew of criminal activity. while they are advertising boarding your horse and show jumping there is a whole other world there. yes. the pomp and circumstance was the tip of the iceberg. immediately below the surface were predatory criminals who really lived as if they were in the wild west. the lords of this underworld were the jane family. i guess i would describe them as the horse mafia. they are the granddads of all of it. cathy olson, cathy jane olson no longer associates with her family. they will always stay on top. i don t care what they do or how they do it. the underworld dated wac to the 1930s when the jane family began shipping in horses from the west. the jane gang as they were then known soon came to dominate the chicago horse business.
the horse frauds. jane figured out a horse is worth much more dead than alive. he made his money by burning barns down and collecting on the insurance. by killing horses. and collecting on the insurance. it s horrifying. to see something like that and the horses are screaming and crying. it s held. you smell the skin burning, hair burning. by that time i started freaking out. i couldn t handle it. this was the dangerous world that prosecutors say richard bailey led helen brach into. they say bailey was in thick with the horse mafia. just how thick would turn out to be a critical question. the first time bailey ever came into the stables, i ll never forget him. he wore big old doipers, he looked like a real dork. jane sold him a horse and
swearing to a conversation she overheard in the stable. i was in the outer office one day and mrs. brach came in and she knocked on the office door. richard bailey and my father were in the office. then she says helen brach started yelling saying she was cheated and was going to the authorities. i heard a conversation that we had to shut her up. and then a second incriminating conversation. then i heard another conversation where she was shut up. i was in the same room a couple weeks later. and i haven t seen her no more. she shut up. shut her up. that may be, but cathy jane olson has told three different versions of this story. only the most recent one included richard bailey. did you ever say to frank jane junior the candy lady s got
stables for years and years and years? the stables were basically a magnet to attract wealthy people for fraud. and a witch s brew of criminal activity. so why they re advertising boarding your horse and show jumping, there s a whole other world there? yes. the pomp and circumstances was the tip of the iceberg. immediately below the surface were predatory criminals who really lived as if they were in the wild west. the lords of this underworld were the jane family. i guess i would describe them as a horse mafia. they are the grapd dads- kathy jane olson no longer associates with her family. i don t care what they do, they ll always be on top. the underworld that helen brach stumbled into dated back to the 1930s when the jane family began shipping in horses from the west. the jane gang as they were then