Murder Incorporated – The Birth of Death
Title: Murder Incorporated – The Birth of Death
Original Publication Date: 6/21/2023
Transcript URL: https://share.descript.com/view/4BUbAtAxXfe
Description: In this episode, Mustache Chris and Steve will begin to peel back the layers of the notorious mafia organization, Murder Incorporated. We will look at the very beginnings of this group of murderers for hire.
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Begin Transcript:
[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.
All right guys. We have something really special on hand for you in this episode. And then for a couple of future episodes, we are going to really delve deeply into Murder Inc. And The Murder Inc. Is just an, a fascinating subject and a fascinating piece of the, the early, early modern you might say.
Iteration of the Mafia and it really stretched over the, the early [00:01:00] formation of the mafia and then into the mafia that we know today, the commission-based system. Chris, maybe you can just start us off today and tell us a little bit about Overall Murder, Inc. Yeah, just to kind of like quickly break it down, like Murder Inc.
Was the enforcement wing, the murder wing, to put it bluntly, of the, uh, national crime syndicate and ran from, uh, 19, uh, 29 to 1941. Um, It's up to a debate like how many murders the Murder Inc. Was actually responsible for. Some people put in the thousands, some people put in the hundreds. You know, one thing we do know for sure though, that like the murders spanned across the entire United States.
Um, yeah, murder Inc was like, mainly, it was like mainly kind of composed of like Italian, um, street hoods, Jewish, uh, street hoods. There were some Irish people in there, but it was mainly Italians and it was like a joint effort between like, [00:02:00] Jewish gang, like Jewish gangsters and Italian gangsters really?
And um, you know, from my research, like they called this thing like the National Crime Syndicate, which was apparently was like, the way they described it was like a loose alliance of like Irish and Italian and Jewish gangs. And even like some black gangs were part of the syndicate. And then the idea was like they would all.
Work out their differences between each other, like within the syndicate and, you know, all kind of, you know, work out their problems and try to work towards the same goal. I don't know. I personally, I think they just didn't really, at the time, they didn't really understand how the commission worked. And like the National Crime syndicate was kind of like a fill-in for, I could be wrong about this, but like the Italian, like the commission worked with other gangs too.
But the Italians were at the top. You know, there was no disputing that it's not like they were equals, um, and the commission would moderate disputes between, uh, other, other gangs too, especially [00:03:00] like if it affected their business. But, you know, for, from the research I've done, they called it the National Crime Syndicate.
So that's what we're gonna call it. I really get from, from the discussions that we've had and that the re the research that I've looked into that it definitely was that either the National Crime Syndicate was, like you said, a misunderstanding of what the commission was really about, or maybe it was a proto version of the commission and that that it would eventually, I guess you might say it's slowly turned into the commission, but I, I get the sense that this w
