Murder Inc., investigation records
Murder, Inc. was a profit-making enterprise, with the main sources of income being gambling, loansharking, and racketeering. The Murder, Inc. papers (inclusive dates: 1929-1966, bulk dates: 1940-1951) include case files relating to the investigation and prosecution of the Murder, Inc. crime ring by the Kings County District Attorney’s office, District Attorney’s subject files for cases investigated as part of Murder, Inc. but which, for unknown reasons, never came to trial, and index card collections, which include, but are not limited to a substantial number of telephone wiretap transcriptions, and they also provide references to testimony and criminal affiliations for an enormous number of persons associated in some way with the Murder, Inc. investigation.
