Organized Crime Figure. He was part of "Murder Incorporated", a group of professional killers who worked solely for the National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s. The killers received assignments and payments to murder total strangers in the New York area or anywhere in the country, murdering anyone selected by the syndicate board. Murder, Inc. was destroyed when Murder Inc., hitman Abe Reles turned informant in 1940. Anastasia went on to become head of the Gambino crime family in the 1950s. He was shot to death in the barbershop of the Park Sheraton Hotel, now called the Park Central Hotel.
Organized Crime Figure. He was part of "Murder Incorporated", a group of professional killers who worked solely for the National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s. The killers received assignments and payments to murder total strangers in the New York area or anywhere in the country, murdering anyone selected by the syndicate board. Murder, Inc. was destroyed when Murder Inc., hitman Abe Reles turned informant in 1940. Anastasia went on to become head of the Gambino crime family in the 1950s. He was shot to death in the barbershop of the Park Sheraton Hotel, now called the Park Central Hotel.
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Records on Ancestry
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New York, New York, Index to Marriage Licenses, 1908-1910, 1938-1940
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1950 United States Federal Census
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New York, New York, U.S., Death Index, 1949-1965
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New York, New York, U.S., Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018
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New York, U.S., State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1794-1943
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