The Murder Trust (Iron Mike Malloy; Mike the Durable)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Killing of Iron Mike
In 1933, Tuff Tony was dead and multiple other members of the murder trust were in police custody. The authorities still hadn't connected the dots and linked them all to the death of Iron Mike. Simon Reed explains how a petty crook with multiple convictions tried to get his sentence reduced by telling prosecutors he had been invited into a murder plot. He says as plan after plan to kill Iron Mike failed, they got more and more desperate.
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In early 1933, a group of men dubbed the "Murder Trust" conspired to kill Irishman Mike Malloy, who proved very difficult to kill. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the aftermath when they were finally able to kill Mike after 9 attempts, including whether they were ever brought to justice for the murder of Iron Mike.
