Turf Wars and Cold Blood: The Rise of Murder Incorporated
Original Publication Date: 7/5/2023
Transcript URL: https://share.descript.com/view/0Mqs6rsMMYv
Description: In today's episode, Mustache Chris and Steve delve into the formation of one of the most notorious criminal organizations in American history, Murder Inc. We explore the key players involved, including Albert Anastasia, Abe Reles, and their deadly conflict with the Shapiro Gang. We discuss how Albert Anastasia and Abe Reles, along with other notorious gangsters of the era, came together to establish a criminal enterprise that specialized in contract killings, extortion, and other illicit activities. One of the most significant conflicts Murder Inc faced was the war with the Shapiro Gang, a rival criminal outfit. We explore the escalating violence between the two groups, the motivations behind the conflict, and the high-profile assassinations that characterized this bloody turf war.
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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.
Hey guys. Welcome back to Organized Crime and Punishment on today's episode, mustache, Chris and I are going to be diving even deeper into Murder, Inc. By exploring some of the key characters who are really the street level guys. The muscle you might say of the organization. In the previous episode, we explored Jacob Shapiro Le and Le Leke Holter, who made up sort of a higher under the management of Murder Inc.
And their rise to [00:01:00] power and the labor, Slugger, wars, Abe Reiss, Harry Strauss, and many more are going to get explored in this episode, and we're going to see how basically three separate gangs. Came together as a marriage of convenience informed what was the most ruthless killing machine that organized crime ever produced in North America.
Each of these stories on Murder Inc. Are really interesting on their own, and they're even more awesome when you put 'em all together. So I highly suggest if people like what they hear today. Go back and listen to episode one and two and then keep out. Uh, keep your eyes out because we'll have a couple of more episodes on Murder Inc.
And also check out all of our other episodes as well too, because I think you'll see that a lot of the things that we're talking about with Murder Inc. You'll get a lot more out of it if you listen to uh, uh, some of our earlier episodes on the five families, et cetera. [00:02:00] So where do you think we should start off today?
Uh, Chris, how about Abe Reis, one of, uh, Brownsville's Finest. Uh, can you tell us about Abe and then maybe how he fits in with some of the other pieces of the Murder Inc. Puzzle. Yeah, a Ellis is, uh, I'm not sure if he's like really, uh, at the average person would know who a Ellis is. I'm sure people who've studied a bit of mob history would probably know who Abelli is.
Um, he's, I mean, I'm not giving anything away. He ends up becoming a. Uh, probably one of the greatest informants in, in history, but at this point, uh, he's not, uh, yeah. A res was born to, uh, Austrian Jewish immigrants in Brownsville on May 10th, 1906. Uh, his father, like, he worked in the, uh, garment industry, but, uh, when the depression hits, um, it, when the depression hit, he lost his job, obviously, and I, right.
Apparently he was selling like, [00:03:00] uh, On the streets. What, what is kisha? Exactly? Again, it's like a potato kind of ball. Uh, what I'm thinking is that it's probably, it shows you that working in the
