Writers of Wrongs · @WritersofWrongs
42 followers · 107 posts · Server zirk.us#OTD in 1944: #Lepke Buchalter, legendary leader of the Mob's #NYC #MurderInc enforcement arm, and aides Louis Capone and Mendy Weiss were executed in #SingSing Prison's #ElectricChair. Convicted of the #Brooklyn #murder of candy store owner Joseph Rosen, Buchalter was believed to have ordered dozens of killings in his underworld career.
#CapitalPunishment #OrganizedCrime #Histodons
Read about it:
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2019/03/death-chair-takes-lepke-two-aides.html
#otd #lepke #nyc #MurderInc #singsing #electricchair #brooklyn #murder #capitalpunishment #organizedcrime #histodons
Writers of Wrongs · @WritersofWrongs
3 followers · 6 posts · Server zirk.us
#OTD in 1941: Government witness Abe "Kid Twist" Reles fell to his death at Half Moon Hotel, #ConeyIsland NY. He had been expected to testify in #MurderInc. trial of racketeer "Lepke" Buchalter. #crimehistory
Read about it:
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2016/11/seventy-five-years-ago-abe-reles.html
#otd #ConeyIsland #MurderInc #crimehistory