The Murder Trust (Iron Mike Malloy; Mike the Durable)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Murder Trust's Plan to Kill Iron Mike
The friends who were trying to kill Iron Mike for insurance money came to be known as the Murder Trust. Their eighth plan was to find a guy that looked like Mike, kill him with Hershey's cab and use his body for insurance purposes. They thought they'd killed him too, but it turned out that Murray was not dead. He ended up spending 55 days in the hospital recovering. So they finally killed him off with Plan 9: carbon monoxide poisoning.
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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.
