The Murder Trust (Iron Mike Malloy; Mike the Durable)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Great Depression and America's Experiment With Prohibition
The Great Depression played a big part in generating the financial desperation. America had already decided that it had had enough of the prohibition of alcoholic beverages. The 18th Amendment thus became the first and so far only amendment of the US Constitution to be repealed.
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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.
