The Lethal Legacy of Murder Incorporated

Title: The Lethal Legacy of Murder Incorporated
Original Publication Date: 7/19/2023
Transcript URL: share.descript.com/view/Ah4X1GH5pQ3
Description: In this gripping episode, we delve into the chilling world of Murder Incorporated, a notorious criminal organization responsible for some of the most heinous murders in history. Join us as we explore the disturbing stories behind key murders committed by this deadly syndicate and attempt to unravel the motivations behind their existence. While the idea of a national crime syndicate employing a specialized murder organization may seem inconceivable, we examine the factors that led to the rise of Murder Inc. and why such an entity was deemed necessary. We discuss the social cost of Murder Inc., highlighting the devastating impact their actions had on communities and society as a whole. Tune in as we peel back the layers of this dark chapter in criminal history, shedding light on the hidden truths and sinister consequences of Murder Incorporated.
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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 Organized Crime and Punishment. We are continuing our discussion of the incredible story of Murder Incorporated, the violence arm of the Mafia. Isn't that just crazy mustache that the Mafia had a special organization for enforcing violence. That fact will get us into all sorts of fascinating conversations.
But let's start off with a quick recapitulation of what we've talked about so [00:01:00] far. You can listen to any of these episodes that we've done so far on Murder, Inc. By themselves. They stand alone, uh, all the in as, uh, all the information presented, but they paint a much. Uh, richer and clearer picture of this deadly organization, murder Inc.
When you put 'em all together. So, um, with that mustache, Chris, can you just recap the elements so far that we've talked about that set us up to how Murder Inc was formed? Yeah. So to, uh, kind of reintroduce some of the major players we have, uh, Abe Ellis, uh, Harry Strauss, happy Mayon, um, Frank Amano, uh, let alter Albert Anastasia, Louis Capone, and.
All these guys together kind of loosely create what we known as, uh, murder Inc. Uh, lpi Bulk Alter and Albert Anastasia were the two heads of the organization. There was two heads, right? And Albert was kind of responsible [00:02:00] for the, uh, the Italian, uh, element of Murder Inc. And lpi, uh, bulk Halter was responsible for the Jewish element of.
Murder Wing, uh, murder Inc. So the, we have those, those basic pieces and there's a whole lot of context that leads us up to how it's formed and labor, slugger, wars, so many other elements that come together. The whole. Situation that was going on in these neighborhoods, these ethnic enclaves, but we've gotten to this point.
Let's talk about the founding and now that we have all these pieces, how is Murder Inc actually put together and why? So after like the cast of Lamar War really and when the, the creation of the National Crime Syndicate, and we talked about this earlier on the episode, one of Murder Inc. Like Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky and the top top cream of the top mafia came [00:03:00] with this idea of, uh, creating lenar enforcement wing for.
This newly, uh, created national crime syndicates and, you know, it makes sense where, you know, it only takes kind of one person who, uh, start squealing into the police or fly off the handle. And all this hard work that, uh, went into creating something like the national crime syndicates could all just come collapsing.
So basically you have to make people. Terrified of the fact that, you know, your life's gonna be at risk. If you even think about talking, uh, about Lucky Luciano, they probably wouldn't be talking about him cuz he was so high up. But, you know, talking about Lucky Luciano to the cops or anything like that in a lot of ways is basically kind of how our police force works.
In some ways it might get me a little bit of trouble, but it's, it's, it's the threat of violence that really stops a lot of people from committing crimes where, You know, the violence that could happen to them, but the, you know, the, um, [00:04:00] The fact that they can get thrown in jail for many years, or the cops show up and it basically, it's the foundation of almost every society in a lot of ways where without that threat of violence, it's really hard to keep control of anything.
I mean, that, that really is, I mean, I. I don't think that that's a controversial opinion, that the police is the violence arm of the state, and that the state has the monopoly of violence through the police. I mean, that's why if I have a dispute with my neighbor, I can't. Even if it was a, a completely legal dispute, and we went through the courts and it said that my neighbor owes me $10,000 because their tree fell onto my fence.
I can't go and collect it from them personally. I can't take their property. The mafia needed something like that because otherwise it would be chaos. You think about different situations where clans, I mean on Sicily, even clans fight each other [00:05:00] and they have wars that go over the course of generations.
The National Crime Syndicate, if it was going to be a professional operation needed, needed that ability to impose its will on people who are members. Exactly, and it, I mean, it's a natural, I think it's a natural, uh, uh, progression of just organized crime in general in the United States becoming more organized.
You, you mentioned like the tree falling, like I'd recently been listening to, uh, some history on the Vikings and the Vikings Society kind of ran, it was like an honor society where, oh, Your tree fell on my tree and it like, you're not gonna pay for it. I'm gonna personally go and take care of you myself.
And, you know, for like a somewhat like less organized society. I mean, that makes sense. I mean, we, we talked about earlier in the series, this is how the mafia used to take care of proms. They'd have [00:06:00] these like crazy shootouts in the middle of the streets, but at this point they start realizing. You know, as a state realizes like we can't just have like the neighbor shooting the other neighbor because you know, he flipped his cow or something like that.
It just doesn't work like that. Like the neighbor has to be able to go to this third party, which is the legal system, or let's say for arguments, like just say the police, this is what my other neighbor did. They have to investigate it, see what happened, and. Come to the conclusion like, who's at fault here is, or if anybody's at fault.
And a lot of ways, this is kind of how Murder Inc was used, where they get hired to do the jobs, but people within the national crime sate would sit for a very long time discussing, you know, what to do about so-and-so individual. And we'll get into it. Uh, when we talk about Judge Schultz, when there was a very long meeting about.
What to do about him. …