A Look at 5 High-Profile Mob Hits: Albert Anastasia, 1957By Matt Stevens and Sarah MervoshAlbert Ana
A Look at 5 High-Profile Mob Hits: Albert Anastasia, 1957By Matt Stevens and Sarah MervoshAlbert Anastasia, a feared mob boss who was known as the head of Murder Inc., an execution squad accused of dozens of murders in the early 20th century, had managed to escape death by the electric chair.But death found him in a barber’s chair, as he relaxed under a pile of hot towels.Mr. Anastasia had been convicted of murder in 1921 and sentenced to death, but was freed in a retrial. He was killed on Oct. 25, 1957, when two men walked into the barbershop of the Park Sheraton Hotel and drew their guns. The men, wearing scarves to hide their faces, shot Mr. Anastasia five times.No arrests were made. But the authorities believed that Carmine J. Persico, a mob boss who died this month in prison, had a strong hand in his and other murders. In a sentencing memorandum about Mr. Persico in 1986, federal prosecutors said he had admitted to a relative, “I killed Anastasia.”New York Times, March 14, 2019[Photo taken of Anastasia in 1951] -- source link
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