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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.".
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...
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.
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.
Jan 1, 2001 · One of the most important true crime books on the origins of The Syndicate. A new edition of the 1951 book by Burton B Turkus and Sid Feder that had sold more than 1,000,000 copies by the 1970's. This new edition contains mug shots, crime scene photos and maps.
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Sep 13, 2021 · Burton Turkus, assistant DA, spearheaded efforts to swiftly prosecute beginning in the spring of 1940. He had the defendants tried in groups or pairs. The testimony of turncoats such as Reles, Tannenbaum and Magoon had a devastating effect.
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.
