He Drove the Getaway Car for the Biggest Heist in U.S. History —His Best Friend Shot Him 6 Times

Stacks Edwards vouched for Tommy DeSimone inside the Lucchese crew. Put his own name behind him when nobody else would. That friendship is exactly why Burke picked Tommy for the job. After Lufthansa, Stacks made one mistake. He left the getaway van out in the open instead of ditching it. Burke decided that made him a liability, but he needed someone Stacks would actually open the door for at 2am without asking questions. Goodfellas shows the murder in four seconds. What it never shows is what Tommy did after. He called Stacks' mother. Offered his condolences for a death he caused less than a day earlier. This documentary covers the real friendship, the van mistake that got him killed, and the detail Goodfellas left out completely. #Goodfellas #LufthansaHeist #StacksEdwards #TommyDeSimone #JimmyBurke #TrueCrime #MafiaDocumentary #GoodfellasTrueStory #LuccheseCrimeFamily #TrueCrimeDocumentary #GangsterDocumentary #NewYorkMafia