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Joseph Force Crater[1] (January 5, 1889 – disappeared August 6, 1930; declared legally dead June 6, 1939) was an American lawyer who served as a New York State Supreme Court Justice and mysteriously vanished shortly after the state began an investigation into corruption in New York City. Despite massive publicity, the missing persons case was ...
The NYPD’s longest-running unsolved missing-person case – the bizarre and famous disappearance of Judge Joseph Force Crater – may finally be solved. Judge Crater – who vanis…
Judge Joseph Force Crater and his wife relax, just days before his disappearance on Aug. 6, 1930. Bettmann/Getty Images. When we think about a person of political power disappearing, we might consider the "hiking the Appalachian Trail" excuse (i.e., having an affair) before imagining a reality where the person truly is straight-up missing. But in 1930, Americans were transfixed by the story of ...
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On August 6, 1930, New York Supreme Court judge Joseph Force Crater vanished on the streets of Manhattan near Times Square. The dapper 41‑year‑old’s disappearance launched a massive ...
On the morning of August 6, 1930, Joseph Force Crater awoke alone in his luxurious apartment in a new high-rise building located at the foot of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The building, according to an advertisement, was situated in the “quaint Washington Square section,” where, surrounded “on all sides by street or church property, it ...
Summary: On the night of August 6, 1930, Joseph Force Crater, a newly appointed judge and prominent figure in many circles of Manhattan, hailed a taxi in the heart of Broadway and vanished into thin air. Despite a decades-long international manhunt led by the New York Police Department’s esteemed Missing Persons Bureau, the reason for Crater’s disappearance remains a confounding mystery.
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Jun 7, 2010 · The disappearance of Judge Joseph Force Crater became the lengthiest unsolved missing persons case in the history of New York City. On August 6th, 1930, the prominent man vanished without a trace. Despite 16,000 leads and the discovery of a shady private life, the whereabouts of Judge Crater never came to light.
