Blood and The Badge Finds 2 Corrupt Cops Framing A Guy For Murder

 

2 Crooked NYPD Cops Working with the Mafia Framed Barry Gibbs for Murder: 'I Know Where Your Mother Lives' (Exclusive)

In an exclusive excerpt from 'Blood and the Badge,' read how former NYPD cop Louis Eppolito framed a man for a crime he didn't commit

By Lizz Schumer

Lizz Schumer

Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously appeared in Good Housekeeping, Woman's Day, Prevention, The New York Times, and others.

 

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It sounds like something out of a crime novel: two ruthless New York cops, acting as double agents for the Mafia. That's the story of Blood and the Badge: The Mafia, Two Killer Cops, and a Scandal That Shocked the Nation by Michael Cannell, out Jan. 14, 2025 from Minotaur Books.

 

That evening, Gibbs got his hot soak in the bathroom of Scheck’s loft in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn. “I’m scrubbing, and I’m crying,” Gibbs said. “I wanted to get the jail off me.”

Afterward, Gibbs met Scheck’s dog, Barney. “As I went to kneel down,” Gibbs said, "I got all the way down and Barney came all the way up to my face and gave me a kiss. That is when I knew I was free, after a kiss from that dog. It was the most uplifting day I ever had.”

Adapted from Blood and the Badge: The Mafia, Two Killer Cops, and a Scandal That Shocked the Nation by Michael Cannell (Minotaur Books, 2025).