This Day in History: Murder, Inc., Mobster Louis Lepke Buchalter Is Executed (1944) In the early 1930s, American gangster Louis Lepke Buchalter joined Lucky Luciano in forming a national crime syndicate. Buchalter came to control the enforcement arm of the Syndicate—Murder, Inc.—which carried out contract killings across the US. He went into hiding during a government crackdown on organized crime in the mid-1930s but eventually surrendered himself, stood trial for various crimes, and was sentenced to die. Which of his associates were executed on the same day as he was?
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 03:12:45 +0000
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