On this day, Aug. 24, in 1939, the leader of “Murder Inc.,” Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, gave himself up to columnist Walter Winchell. Winchell then turned him over to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
In 1937, Buchalter went into hiding, and sought to have Murder Inc. hit men kill 12 mobsters who might testify against him.
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