Horace “Big Mac” McKenna Featured On New TV Show
“Tell my mother I love her”. –Big Mac’s last words to his chaffeur
Horace “Big Mac” McKenna has been discussed here in the past. He was a former CHiP (highway patrol cop) and a strip club and night club owner in L.A. He was known to have been an associate or at least knew Ron Launius. The two possibly met while in jail in Southern California in either 1977 or 78, as Ron’s sentence was winding down after his transfer from McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary to a unit in SoCal. But that’s just my speculation, based on Ronnie’s timeline and discussions with members of this blog. Ron may have also known McKenna’s partner, Mike Woods, or Woods’ buddy and later business partner, a former bouncer named David Amos.
Big Mac’s murder and the events that happened at the end of his life will be featured on a new Investigation Discovery crime show hosted by Jerry Springer. So far, the new series has received good reviews from viewer comments that I have read. This new show is called “Tabloid”. And Horace’s episode is titled “Ex-Cop X’ed!”. Check out the preview video here. I believe this episode will be featured next Thursday, Feb. 20 at 10pm eastern time. Check your local cable or satellite listings. Discovery ID/Investigation Discovery.
A year or two before his murder in the mid 80s, the men who conspired to kill Horace also produced a few B-movies, or straight-to-video films, one of them titled “Flipping” had a similar plot and murder scene as Horace’s real-life demise.
The two (McKenna and Woods) quickly rose in the strip club universe and, within only three years, were owners of the “Valley Ball” in Van Nuys, and “Bare Elegance” and the “Jet Strip” in Los Angeles and were wealthy, powerful men. –Carbon Canyon Chronicle
There is also an episode from the series City Confidential about Horace, titled “Silenced Partner”. I have watched City Confidential before… but, I don’t know if that show is still aired regularly. Help me out if you find it, post a link. I have not seen “Silenced Partner”.
Go to the Carbon Canyon Chronicle to read the entire McKenna story and to see reader comments, some of which claim to have known Big Mac or these other gents.
A few photos from Big Mac’s funeral in 1989. It was a media circus.
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Toni Nixon 12:48 am on June 8, 2021 Permalink |
City confidential airs on The True crime network and aired the episode about Horace “big Mack”McKenna tonight 06-08-2021 at 1AM
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Joe 1:09 pm on November 25, 2020 Permalink |
I feel sorry what happened to that man and how he got killed, but David Paul Amos has not changed he’s planning Takeover part 2 by killing Diana Vin Habsburg daughter of Karl Von Habsburg , I guess Dave got out of jail and went straight to Italian/ American mafia , shocking that he still owes club that he help with murder of original owner
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John Sheridan 6:26 pm on June 3, 2018 Permalink |
Mike Woods definitely was a back stabber, and thanks very highly of himself. He was released from prison around June 2017.
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Rhonda Lipsey 2:55 am on November 2, 2017 Permalink |
I worked with Horace McKenna late 1988. He was one of a kind and at times could be very charming and always treated me well. But if he did not like you or was angry you would surely know. MIKE Woods was far from what Big Mac was ever like and at times treated people as if they were of a lower class.
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McKenna Vaughan 1:07 pm on March 11, 2014 Permalink |
@Ray, Yes Horace was Very Loyal! If he didn’t like you, you damned well knew it! And knew why.. Never in my life had I met anyone like Him!!!
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Ray Johnson 5:04 pm on February 17, 2014 Permalink |
I was stationed with Big Mac (Hoss back then) in Guam 1961-62 and El Toro where he won the Mr El Toro contest in 1963. We trained for Vietnam but were never sent. I was Big Mac’s workout partner. We always backed each other up in many fights. He was a great friend – very loyal.
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localarts 11:43 am on February 15, 2014 Permalink |
Will definitely watch it. They might have a different take on McKenna than City Confidential. Damn, I feel sorry for that horse.
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