Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Mafia Life Exposed: Beatings, Snitches, and Survival
Tue, 27 May 2025
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What experiences shaped Matt's early life?
So a two-story house, and then the basement. The basement was a summer kitchen, where that's where all the cooking went on in the house, and a big living room, everybody would hang out. Up on the first floor, the furniture was all in plastic, all like, you know, Louis XIV-looking, styly furniture, you know. And this is what I grew up with.
So you knew when these guys would come in there, wife beaters, and they'd go in there, and they'd dip, you know, the bread in the sauce, and they'd be They're like, oh, Venica, come here. You know, they give us like 20 bucks. Go get some candy. Get out of here. We knew what they were doing. They were having a meeting, you know.
So growing up, I started like bouncing around with these kids and go to their house. That's what I wanted to do. Rub elbows with these guys. And they heard like one guy, this guy, Tony goes, hey, kid, come here. I heard you laid out that guy, Michelangelo. You laid him out like cold. I was like, yeah, why? I go, I don't know. He's talking shit. Yeah. Is he going to do me a favor? I'm like, yeah.
You want to take something from me down to Bushwick? I'm like, yeah, OK. I didn't ask. Boom, boom, boom. Got in the car and I went, you know, and that's how it started. Like from there, you know, I started boosting cars right after that.
I would say when you're you know, what I think a lot of people don't realize is like when you're you're growing up and you see all the people that have status and money and respect.
are criminals always then that's what you go for like if you grew up in an upper middle class neighborhood and all those same people were doctors and lawyers well then you you want to emulate them of course but of course everybody that you're seeing surrounding you well it all started with that guy that my mom brought home right um you know i'm gonna say straight up the guy's a piece of shit i mean i've ran into him after you know um i'll get into that later but you know i've i stood up to him
and you know typical you know he's a punk straight up punk you know i mean yeah he's got a little age on me or whatnot you know he's 70 something but at the time he was in his 60s i was in my 30s i i gave him an opportunity to step up he didn't step up he just kind of like back down you know i also found that he ended up being a rat you know and that's one thing that was against my principles when i found that out i was just
I was, like, devastated, you know, because I started putting one-on-one together, and then that explains a lot of things, like, you know, how you held them in esteem anyway. Well, you know, it is... I didn't have a father figure. This was the only thing I had. It's just, he was in my life all those years. It was devastating to me when he planted coke on me. I told my mom, yeah, I smoke weed.
I sell a little weed. I go, mom, I don't do fucking coke. She didn't care. She just fucking told me to pack my shit and go. Sleeping on a couple of friends' couches for about a week, two weeks. And my mom came back. She said, oh, I made a big fucking mistake. She tried to juggle us. Like, I'd be in the apartment alone again, and she'd be by his place.
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