Murder Incorporated - The Canary that Could Sing But Couldn’t Fly

Title: Murder Incorporated - The Canary that Could Sing But Couldn’t Fly
Original Publication Date: 8/2/2023
Transcript URL: share.descript.com/view/Czku39RnwTN
Description: In this episode, Mustache Chris and Steve dive into the dramatic end of Murder Incorporated and the shocking demise of its notorious hitman, Abe "Kid Twist" Reles. Join us as we explore the aftermath of Reles' mysterious death and the impact it had on the infamous crime syndicate. From the gritty streets of 1940s New York to the courtroom battles that followed, we uncover the secrets and twists that unfolded in the wake of Murder Incorporated's demise
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[00:00:00] Welcome to Organized Crime and Punishment, the best spot in town to hang out and talk about history and crime. With your hosts, Steve and Mustache, Chris.
Welcome back to the program and thank you for joining Mustache, Chris and I as we weave our way through the fascinating story of the Industrial Lies Death Machine, murder Incorporated, we are approaching the end of the story of Murder, Inc. We are finally going to see the downfall of Murder Inc. And it will be confirmed that man can't fly.
But they can sing. Each of these episodes in this series on Murder Inc. Can be enjoyed and listened to [00:01:00] individually, but altogether they tell, uh, and Weave a really fascinating story of Murder Incorporated, the Mafia's Killing Machine. But let's move on. There's another character, Charles Workman, and he has a really interesting trial where, um, Abel will come in again.
Yeah. Charles Workman is a. It's an interesting case in the demise of, uh, murder Inc. Uh, cuz it's one of the few that didn't actually end up, up in the, in the death penalty. Uh, Workman was one of the hitman in the, uh, uh, on the Dutch Schultz hit. Uh, And the trial opened up in, uh, uh, June, 1941. And, uh, yeah, a bras was, uh, testifying at this trial once again, uh, and on this case.
But like, uh, a young lady also made an appearance too. She, uh, she used a pseudonym. So we don't actually really, we don't know her name. Um, She testified that like workman, uh, showed up to like Dutch's apartment [00:02:00] the day after the murder, like demanding his clothes so he could burn them. I think literally was saying that like, I need to burn his clothes.
She also said that like workman would like openly talk about. Killing Dutch around like her and like on the streets, you know, like bragging like, look, I took out Dutch soul. It's like, what an idiot. Like are you, do you know what I mean? Like, what do you, like I said, like some of these guys are not the smartest guys in the world.
Like if I'm him and I took out a guy like Dutch Souls, like I'm out of town for at least a couple months. Do you know what I mean? Like, just get out of there. Don't go, don't be anywhere near there. But I don't know. Some of these guys, they, you know, Was a, just to kinda use an example, a math Tory, we had talked about earlier, and apparently he didn't even know the street that the Statue of Liberty was on because he was saying, you know what I mean?
Like he was so like closed in like his little community. Like, you know, it's like you live in New York, like how do you not. I don't know. It just, some of these guys are just not very smart. Um, yeah. And then the, [00:03:00] this is where it kind of gets a little bit like I, it gets a little bit interesting. So, uh, like a funeral home director like testified that workman was employed by him during the, the time, the murder of Dutch.
And, but he would like, later he would like recant this and thus, like the workman lost his alibi and then, Like his, his lawyer would end up changing his position to like not guilty to pushing for like a no contest because like, you know, his witness basically lied under oath and then it was just, and the evidence was actually quite thin that.
Sticking workman to the Dutch salts hits where like you had people, Bri, you know, maybe there was a lot of people bragging on the streets at the time saying I killed Dutch. You know what I mean? And you had umbrella sharing like, oh, I heard it from this person or this person. And so it's not like the other cases that we had talked about earlier.
Abra else is like, I was there, I saw it, I did it. Um, and basically, I guess they, they came to some kind [00:04:00] of agreement where, you know, like, we're gonna drop the death penalty, but you're gonna get life. In prison And Workman ended up, yeah, he ended up getting life in prison and he would end up actually getting out.
Uh, I'm not sure what age he was at that time, but he ended up getting out in 1964. What was Abe Res doing during all of this time? He's bopping from one case to the next, but in his, uh, off time you might say, what was he doing? Oh yeah. So this is the, uh, the wonderful umbrella. This is what a Ross is doing, you know, showing all the, uh, the gratitude of, uh, you know, Being some star witness and, uh, you know, having his life spared and not having to pay for any of the crimes that he committed throughout his entire life.
Uh, yeah. So when the guards were watching him, uh, he was actually staying, he was staying at a hotel, um, and he would have armed guards there at the, the entire time. Uh, he basically just, just stopped bathing. He would stop cleaning himself. So when then every time the guards would have to go in, it would smell [00:05:00] putrid.
Um, he also would cough up, uh, violently and spit blood, uh, and, uh, like blood and spit into this cup that he would keep around. And then he would make the guards empty out the cup. Uh, thought he was dying of lung cancer. He would get into it a little bit later than he wasn't dying of lung cancer. But, uh, Just imagine that, you know, it's like, oh, thanks for, you know, protecting my life guys.
And Oh yeah, by the way, do you, can you dump my, uh, spit cub, you know, because, you know, if anything happens to me, it's your guy's next. Right? And, uh, just like, just a real piece of work, man. Um, yeah, like they, I dunno, the Abe would like taunt the guards too, talking about like the murders that he had committed and I stuff, you know, like the, he would just say stuff to the guard.
So like, set them off, like just try to piss them off and like get underneath their skin. Like just terrorize them in a lot of ways. Uh, I mean, I even write about a story at one time where I guess he had like the, he can get ahold of [00:06:00] these, uh, guards at any time and one of the guards, I guess he was at, It was his, uh, wedding night, and Abe knew this and he ended up like bugging him and calling him at like two o'clock in the morning saying like, I need this to get done.
Like, they're trying to get me yada, yada, yada. And like the guard knowing like it's his job and he had just got married, ends up going there and Abe's just like laughing at him, you know, and like literally making like spitballs, kind of like you do in high school, like these big giant spitballs. And he would just throw 'em at the guards.
Like, this is, this is, uh, …