A DNA test was supposed to confirm what Todd Ennis already knew about his family.

Instead, it shattered everything.

What began as a simple search for his great-grandfather’s immigration records unraveled into a multi-generational mystery—stretching from the chaos of Ellis Island to the shadowed backrooms of Prohibition-era Brooklyn—and a discovery that quietly redrew the branches of his own family tree.

Behind forged documents and altered names lay something far more dangerous: direct ties to the Black Hand, Murder Inc., and the earliest architecture of American organized crime.

As Todd traced elusive paper trails, long-held family stories collapsed. A seemingly ordinary soda bottle from the early 1900s became a critical clue. Addresses turned into crime scenes. And relatives who once seemed distant or ordinary emerged as hidden collaborators in a criminal underworld shaped by bootlegging, racketeering, and silence.

Blending true-crime history with a personal search for identity, Ghettos to Gangland follows one man’s pursuit of the truth—and the generational silence built to keep it hidden.