When five men tried to murder "Iron Mike" with increasingly poisonous drinks
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#77GTP)
In January 1933, five Bronx acquaintances - the press later called them "the Murder Trust" - took out life insurance policies on Michael Malloy, a homeless Irish former firefighter, and set out to collect the $3,500 (about $87,000 today) by getting him to drink himself to death. - Read the rest
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