Anybody Remember Murder, Inc?? (attorney)

[2nd trick op]

Back in the late Thirties and ealy Forties, a young District Attorney from Brooklyn named Burton Turkis succeded in prosecuting a number of prominent gangsters for murder-for-hire; seven men were executed at Sing Sing, including Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and second-in-command Emanuel "Mendy" Weiss.

Turkis, who was to live to a very ripe old age, wrote a rather-sensationalistic book about the case, which was turned into a feature film starring Stuart Whitman as Turkis and a young Peter Falk as stool-pigeon Abe Reles.

Much of the story centers on an anonymous "candy store"; the owner was a middle-aged woman named "Rose Corsi" according to the credits. The role was played by a one-time actress named Helen Waters, who never made another appearance in film or TV, and died in obscuity some 25 years later.

I'm wondering if anyone out there knows if a woman named Rose Corsi actually existed, and might have testified in the three Murder, Inc. trials; Turkis' book makes no reference to her.

One of my reasons for asking is that I worked for many years for a company which produced "candy store"-related merchandise, and quickly acquired two new "distributorships" in greater New York not long after a fire destroyed the plant (which was then rebuilt at much larger capacity, and under World War II rationing constraints).

[skel1977]

I cant say I "remember" them but yeah ive heard of them. I think they did a feature on gangland/history channel.

[greatblueheron]

I had not heard of them until I watched a free documentary on Murder Inc on hulu.com

Quite a group

[skel1977]

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