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Burton B. Turkus (December 2, 1902 – November 22, 1982) was an attorney and arbitrator best known for prosecuting members of the Brooklyn gang known as "Murder, Inc.". He served as assistant district attorney and chief of the Homicide Division in the Office of the District Attorney, Kings County (Brooklyn).
Nov 24, 1982 · Burton B. Turkus, who prosecuted Murder Inc. as a member of the Brooklyn District Attorney's office and sent seven of its members to the electric chair in the 1940's, died at his Madison Avenue ...
Mar 4, 2024 · Louis Capone’s attorney fought to have his client detached from Buchalter, but Assistant DA Burton Turkus retorted by describing Capone as a six-time killer and the mentor to Murder Inc.’s henchmen. “He raised them from little punks to gang overlords,” Turkus said. “The skull and crossbones flew over Capone’s headquarters.”
Aug 1, 2012 · Burton Turkus was the Assistant to the District Attorney who brought down nine suspects in the Murder Inc. trials, managing to convict them all of first-degree murder. They would all be sentenced to death. As an intern at the Brooklyn Collection, I was lucky enough to process the personal papers of Burton Turkus.
Martha Hyde. mhyde@local802afm.org. Not many people know the name Burton Turkus. He is best known for taking down nine members of a notorious Brooklyn crime syndicate in the early 1940s, after one of its members confessed everything he knew to Turkus, who was a young assistant district attorney at the time. Turkus later wrote about the episode ...
Burton Turkus Collection; BC 0102. Turkus later contributed his experiences to a book about the famous trials entitled "Murder Inc.-- The Story of the Syndicate", which was a non-fiction bestseller and was turned into a film in 1960.
Burton B. Turkus, Sid Feder. “Murder, Inc.” was the moniker of the Syndicate’s firing squad, a ruthless group of men guilty of professionally committing 1,000 murders. Murder, Inc. is the book that exposed the Syndicate to the eyes of the world. First published in 1951, it rose to the top of the best-seller list, but later fell out-of-print.
