Abraham "Kid Twist" Reles (/ ˈ r ɛ l ɪ s /; May 10, 1906 – November 12, 1941) was a New York Jewish mobster who was a hit man for Murder, Inc., the enforcement contractor for the Mafia's National Crime Syndicate. Reles later turned government witness and sent several members of Murder, Inc. to the electric chair.

2023年11月12日 · Abraham “Kid Twist” Reles’ damning testimony assisted in taking down some of the most vicious Mob enforcers during the sensational Murder Inc. trials. After sending many of his colleagues to the electric chair, the prosecution’s singing star was set for his biggest performance yet – testifying against New York Mafia boss Albert “The ...

Abe Reles (born c. 1907, East New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Nov. 12, 1941, Coney Island, Brooklyn) was an American killer and gangster who became a celebrated police informer in 1940–41. The son of Austrian–Jewish immigrants, Reles stole his nickname of Kid Twist from a gangster idol and pursued a life of crime .

2018年5月8日 · Abe Reles was one of Murder Inc.’s most feared killers; he had already been arrested 42 times by the time he was thirty-four. He’d somehow manage to skirt a murder conviction (despite six arrests for murders), but after yet another arrest in …

2020年2月11日 · Abe Reles was in protective custody in a room on the sixth floor of the Half Moon Hotel in New York while serving as a government witness when, on November 12, 1941, he was found dead on a roof extension four floors below. Was he trying to escape, or was he pushed? Getty Images

Abe Reles was quite a short guy but that did not deter him from committing ruthless acts of violence. When carrying out murders, his weapon of choice was an ice pick. With the ice pick he would ram it through his victim’s ear right into the brain, nasty huh?

2015年11月11日 · Abe (Kid Twist) Reles, informer on the Brooklyn murder ring, tumbled to his death from a window of a Coney Island Hotel room yesterday in an attempt to escape from custody as a material witness.

Thirty-five-year-old Abe Reles, kinky-haired and jut-jawed, had served for a decade as the assassin-in-chief for an underworld death squad loosely known as Murder, Inc.

Abraham "Kid Twist" Reles (/ ˈ r ɛ l ɪ s /; May 10, 1906 – November 12, 1941) was a New York Jewish mobster who was a hit man for Murder, Inc., the enforcement contractor for the Mafia's National Crime Syndicate.

Uncover the mysterious demise of Abe Reles, a notorious hitman of Murder, Inc., and the web of speculation surrounding his death at the Half Moon Hotel. Abraham Reles’s story begins in a struggling immigrant family, living in Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighbourhood—a hotbed of Jewish and Italian organised crime in the early 20th century.