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Crime History: Trial opens in Philly’s Poison Ring murders

By Scott McCabe
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On this day, March 13, in 1939, the trial began for Herman Petrillo, a leader of the Philadelphia Poison Ring.

The group was ultimately convicted of 70 murders.

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