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2 unusual facts about Murder, Inc.


Naftule Brandwein

He even supposedly played private shows in backrooms for the largely Jewish contract killing gang Murder, Inc..

Paul Ferguson

He subsequently worked on other musical projects, notably with rock outfits Warrior Soul (1987-1990), Murder, Inc. (1991-92) and Crush (1992-93).


Au Bon Pain

One of those three Virginia Tech locations, the one in the Graduate Life Center section of campus, was the site of the 2009 murder of Xin Yang.

Avranches Cathedral

The seat of the Bishop of Avranches, it was a Gothic construction, notable as the place of the penance of Henry II of England in 1172 for the murder of Thomas Becket.

Battle of Callao

Spain began its campaign by seizing the Chincha Islands, which were rich in guano, and demanding indemnity as recompense for the murder of two Spanish citizens in Lambayeque.

Ben Silverstone

His most recent film project is Jump! (2007), in which he starred as a young Jewish photographer charged with the murder of his father, based on the real life story of Philippe Halsman, opposite Patrick Swayze and Martine McCutcheon.

Carlton Ware

Leslie Green, who had previously worked as a chauffeur for the family, was convicted of the murder and hanged at Winson Green Prison on 23 December 1952 by Albert Pierrepoint.

Chaka Demus

On November 18, 2007, Chaka Demus & Pliers performed "Murder She Wrote" alongside Alicia Keys at the 2007 American Music Awards.

Columbia University School of Social Work

Known for her association with the Weather Underground, she was convicted in 1984 of felony murder for her participation in an armed robbery that resulted in the killing of two police officers and a security guard.

Courthouse Place

The structure housed the Cook County Criminal Courts for 35 years, and was the site of many legendary trials, including the Leopold and Loeb murder case and the Black Sox Scandal.

Courtnie Bull

Courtnie Bull (born November 8, 1990) is an American actress who appeared as a supporting actress in roles such as Murder at 75 Birch, Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder portraying Grace Ingalls, and a small role in the film Friends & Lovers.

Deryn Rees-Jones

She has published three poetry books with Seren, The Memory Tray (1994), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; Signs Round a Dead Body (1998), a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation; and Quiver: A Murder Mystery (2004).

Dominique Tricaud

Dominique Tricaud (b, 1955 in Paris, France) is a lawyer whose fame in the United States derives from his being the defense attorney in Paris, France, of Ira Einhorn, the famous environmentalist, convicted in absentia of murder.

Edmund Tylney

While he did omit politically volatile passages and scenes, some, like the deposition scene in Richard II and the murder of Julius Caesar, were allowed to remain.

Eye for Eye

The only intentional murder he describes while growing up is being nearly molested in a Denny's bathroom.

Ghosts of Loss

Laura Palmer is the girl, on whose murder the series revolves.

Gregory Sierra

He also guest starred on many television series during his career, including appearances on Mod Squad, Alias Smith and Jones, Mission: Impossible, Hawaii Five-O, Gunsmoke, The Greatest American Hero, Soap, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The X-Files, Murder, She Wrote and Hill Street Blues.

Illusive Tracks

The story revolves around the passengers on a train heading from Stockholm non-stop to Berlin, and includes murder, adultery, religion, Santa Claus and a very angry train conductor.

Jeffrey Gorton

Jeffrey Wayne Gorton (born November 1, 1962) is an American murderer and rapist, who was convicted in 2002 of the rape and murder of flight attendant Nancy Ludwig on February 17, 1991 at the Hilton hotel in Romulus, Michigan.

José Rijo

In December 2011, German Miranda, who heads the Dominican Republic's Anti-Money Laundering unit, said Rijo had been subpeonaed in relation to his business dealings with Matías “Daniel” Avelino Castro and any information he might have about the abduction and murder of journalist José Silvestre, a.k.a. “Gajo”, of Caña TV.

Kerkko Koskinen

Furthermore, Koskinen wrote the song Uuden ajan kynnyksellä ("At the Threshold of a New Time") in memory of the murder of reporter Anna Politkovskaya.

Leland Stottlemeyer

Another example of Stottlemeyer's loyalty as a friend came in "Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan", when he helps in Monk's continuing investigation of Trudy's murder.

Lem Van Adams

When Lem's nephew Ahmad (Brandon Hammond, Aaron Meeks) witnessed a drug-related murder, Baron was instrumental in protecting the boy from harm.

Louis de Bourbon, Bishop of Liège

The murder of Louis occurs in the novel Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott; but the historical details are far from accurate.

Mac Minister

Mac Minister was profiled on an episode of America's Most Wanted, allegedly responsible for the murder of Anthony "Fat-Tone" Watkins in Las Vegas, Nevada, in retaliation for the murder of Bay Area hip-hop legend Mac Dre.

Majczek and Marcinkiewicz

McGuire first suspected there may have been a wrongful conviction when he learned that Majczek and Marcinkiewicz had not gone to the electric chair for the officer's murder but were sentenced to 99 years each at Joliet.

Memories of Murder

Finally, when yet another murder is committed and DNA evidence sent for processing in the United States comes back inconclusive, Seo's frustrations flow over and he snaps.

Michael Malloy

In 1993, a play based on Malloy's murder was made, titled The Killing of Michael Malloy, by Erik Jendresen.

Michel Fourniret

He was named as a suspect in connection with the murder of 21-year-old Englishwoman Joanna Parrish, whose body was found in an Auxerre river on 17 May 1990.

Murder of Koby Mandell and Yosef Ishran

The legislation was spearheaded by Morton Klein's Zionist Organization of America but was not a priority of other Jewish groups, who said that it did more to reprimand the State Department rather than support counter-terrorism: by targeting only Palestinian terrorists, they said, it was too narrow in its scope and would not, for example, have been able to deal with the murder of Daniel Pearl.

New Bedford Highway Killer

Guedes could still be prosecuted for the 2000 murder of a prostitute in Aveiro, Portugal and similar murders in Germany (or neighboring countries) where Guedes resided in the 1990s.

Operation Bürkl

The goal of the operation was to "liquidate" Franz Bürkl, a notorious Sicherheitspolizei officer who had been sentenced to death by the Polish Special Courts for the murder of at least several dozen people.

Pamela Kosh

She has also made many minor and less notable appearances in television series such as Northern Exposure, Gilmore Girls, Friends, Murder, She Wrote, The Golden Girls, USA High, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Frasier, Charmed, Matlock, Alias, Monk, ER and So Little Time.

Peter Gill

Peter Gill, also known as Preet Sarbjit Gill, who had sex with Gillian Guess while he was on trial for murder and she was a juror, in Canada.

Rao's

Rao's was the basis for "Raimondo's," a fictional restaurant featured as the site of a murder in the Law & Order episode "Everybody Loves Raimondo's." The owner of the fictional restaurant was played by actor Ray Abruzzo, who later co-starred with Pellegrino on The Sopranos.

Roger Everest

He defended Robert Ashman on charges of murder of Andrew Pennington and attempted murder of the Liberal Democrat MP, Nigel Jones MP.

Shaka Sankofa

Sankofa's supporters, including Coretta Scott King, bishop Desmond Tutu, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and celebrities Danny Glover, Kenny Rogers, Lionel Richie, Harry Belafonte and Ruby Dee, brought his case international attention, arguing that his conviction was based on the claim that the testimony of a single eyewitness who said she saw him for a few seconds in the dark parking lot committing the murder.

Shot in the Heart

Shot in the Heart is a memoir written by Mikal Gilmore, then a senior contributing editor at Rolling Stone, about his tumultuous childhood in a dysfunctional family, and his brother Gary Gilmore's eventual execution by firing squad in 1977 for a convenience store murder he committed in Provo, Utah.

Stacey Slater

In 2005, Stacey becomes heavily involved in the murder of Den Watts (Leslie Grantham) when she gives her cousin Zoe Slater (Michelle Ryan) a false alibi for his murder, landing an innocent Sam Mitchell (Kim Medcalf) in prison.

Stephen Kay

Beginning his career as actor, his acting credits include Quantum Leap, Murder, She Wrote, Party of Five and regular roles in Deadly Games and General Hospital.

Sulaiman Layeq

One of his sisters was married to Mir Akbar Khyber (a leading leftist ideologue whose murder in 1978 started the Saur Revolution); another sister was married to Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (who would later become President of Afghanistan).

Thomas Townsend Bucknill

Among the notable cases tried before Bucknill was that in 1912 of poisoner Frederick Seddon, who, on being found guilty of murder appealed directly to Bucknill as a brother Mason and in the name of 'The Great Architect Of The Universe' to overturn the jury’s verdict.

Traves, Haute-Saône

Former SS Standartenfuhrer Jochen Peiper bought property and lived near the village from April 27, 1972 until his murder July 14, 1976.

United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda

The first plans for mass murder of Tutsi were also developed toward the end of 1990, mostly in a series of secret meetings in Gisenyi prefecture of the Akazu, a network of associates based around Agathe Habyarimana, the First Lady.

Viktória Mohácsi

After the murder of handball player Marian Cozma by Roma men (see Veszprém stabbing) she commented on TV that "he must have provoked them".

Virgilio Paz Romero

According to the National Security Archive, Virgilio Paz met DINA agent Michael Townley and Italian terrorist Stefano Delle Chiaie in Madrid, in 1975, to prepare, with the help of Francisco Franco's secret police, the murder of Christian Democrat Bernardo Leighton.

Vladislav Ozerov

Ozerov's first success was Oedipus in Athens (1804), a wry comment on Alexander I's rumoured privity to the murder of his father Paul.

Warren Kimbro

Sams testified that national Panther leader Bobby Seale, who had been speaking at Yale University the day before the murder, had personally ordered the killing, but there was no corroborating evidence; the jury in Seale's subsequent trial was unable to reach a verdict, and the prosecution chose not to re-try the case.

Warsame Abdi Shirwa

20 days later, on August 25 former Mudug region Governor Abdinur Mohamud Dirie Geesey was arrested and charged with the murder.

Who Killed Lamb?

Who Killed Lamb? is a 1974 TV film starring Stanley Baker as a detective investigating a murder.

William Hooper Young

In Brian Evenson's 2006 novel, The Open Curtain, the protagonist is a disaffected Mormon teenager who obsessively researches Young's involvement in Pulitzer's murder.

Withered Murder

Withered Murder is the second of the collaborations of Anthony and Peter Shaffer.


see also

Kid Twist

Abe Reles, New York mobster, member of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter's Murder Inc, and later government informant

Murder, Inc.

In his biography The Valachi Papers, Mafia turncoat Joe Valachi insisted Murder, Inc. did not commit crimes for the Mafia, but this is contradicted by other sources, and Albert Anastasia was also head of a Mafia crime family.