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Burton B. Turkus (December 2, 1902 – November 22, 1982) was an attorney and arbitrator best known for prosecuting members of the Brooklyn gang known as "Murder, Inc.".. He served as assistant district attorney and chief of the Homicide Division in the Office of the District Attorney, Kings County (Brooklyn).
Mar 4, 2024 · Louis Capone’s attorney fought to have his client detached from Buchalter, but Assistant DA Burton Turkus retorted by describing Capone as a six-time killer and the mentor to Murder Inc.’s henchmen.
Back in the 1940s, Burton Turkus was a prosecutor so talented at taking down organized crime figures that his foes gave him the name “Mr. Arsenic”. After some high – profile court cases, he collaborated with the journalist Sid Feder to write Murder Inc.: The Story Of the Syndicate.
Jul 7, 2024 · Throughout the 1930s, Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and Albert Anastasia led a vicious gang of hitmen who killed their rivals in gruesome ways — but one of Murder Inc.'s own members turned informer and led to the organization's downfall in the early '40s. In 1930s New York City, murder was big business. And the best killers in the industry were ...
Aug 1, 2012 · Burton Turkus was the Assistant to the District Attorney who brought down nine suspects in the Murder Inc. trials, managing to convict them all of first-degree murder. They would all be sentenced to death.
Mar 21, 1992 · The Story of the Syndicate Paperback – March 21, 1992. by Burton B. Turkus (Author), Sid Feder (Author) 4.4 60 ratings. See all formats and editions. Murder, Inc.” was the moniker of the Syndicate's firing squad, a ruthless group of men guilty of professionally committing 1,000 murders.
Sep 13, 2021 · Burton Turkus, assistant DA, spearheaded efforts to swiftly prosecute beginning in the spring of 1940. He had the defendants tried in groups or pairs. The testimony of turncoats such as Reles, Tannenbaum and Magoon had a devastating effect.
