Gangster Stories For Sleep | Henry Hill – The Goodfella Who Walked Away, 1980
New York, 1980. In the shadows of airports, diners, and quiet suburban streets, Henry Hill lived a double life—one foot in the ordinary world, the other in a hidden underworld where cash, loyalty, and fear moved faster than the law. Neither boss nor soldier, Hill was something rarer: an insider who saw everything and survived to tell the tale.
Known to many as the real-life “Goodfella,” Henry Hill’s story is one of contrast: a boy who dreamed of belonging to the mob, a man who reveled in its thrills and then unraveled under its weight, and a witness who traded silence for survival. His life traces the rise and slow collapse of a myth—the everyday gangster whose world was at once exhilarating, terrifying, and strangely mundane.
This two-hour bedtime story gently explores the life of a man who drifted from petty hustles to major scores, from brotherhood to betrayal, and finally into the uncertain quiet of witness protection.
Told in a soft, reflective tone, this story isn’t about the gunfire or the glamour—it’s about ambition, temptation, and the lonely stillness that follows when a life built on secrets comes undone. A portrait of a goodfella who lived the dream, paid the price, and slipped into the shadows.
Part of the Gangster Stories For Sleep series, this episode invites you to drift into the hushed world of mid-century American organized crime—where fortunes rise and fall with whispers, and rest arrives like the dawn over Queens.
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