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Famous Crimes #11
This issue is an anthology containing at least two crime stories from police files. "The Kansas City Massacre" chronicles criminal Verne Miller's flight after the 1933 Kansas City massacre, his descent into the underworld, and his eventual violent death at the hands of his own associates on November 29, 1933. "Joe 'Boss' Masseria" documents the rise and murderous career of union racketeer Joe Masseria, whose control over milk rackets and other criminal enterprises ended when he was killed on April 15, 1931, in a Coney Island restaurant, meeting a death as brutal as those he had inflicted on others.