Joseph Force Crater
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Joseph Force Crater was an American lawyer who served as a New York State Supreme Court justice and mysteriously vanished shortly after the state began an investigation into corruption in New York Cit
c. 1930
Murder, Inc.
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Murder, Inc. was an organized crime group active from 1929 to 1941 that acted as the enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicate – a closely connected criminal organization that included the Itali
Joseph Force Crater
…that her husband, NYPD detective Robert Good, had learned that Crater was killed by Charles Burns, an NYPD officer who also worked as a bodyguard of Murder, Inc. enforcer Abe Reles, and by Burns' brother, Frank. According to the letter, Crater was buried near West Eighth Street in Coney Island, Brooklyn, at the…
An FBI wanted poster for Jacob Shapiro and Louis Buchalter (1937)
Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, standing in court during sentencing, December 2, 1941