Mobster Biography: Albert Anastasia

Albert “Lord High Executioner” Anastasia was saved from death row by the mafia when he was just a teenager. He rose through the ranks of organized crime by ruthlessly eliminating anyone who stood in his way. Although suspected of involvement in many murders, the “disappearance” of witnesses always meant that he walked free.

Albert Anastasia ran the enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicate, eventually dubbed by the press as Murder Incorporated or Murder Inc. Despite the fact that the m...