Abe "Kid Twist" Reles

BROOKLYN, NY - NOVEMBER, 1941: The most feared hitman for Murder, Inc, Abe "Kid Twist" Reles (1906-1941), poses for a portrait while sitting at the District Attorney's office in police custody circa November, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York. Reles, who turned informer against his henchmen to save himself from the electric chair, is said to have been trying to escape down the outside of the Half Moon Hotel by making a rope, fashioned from bed sheets and electric wire, which he tied to a radiator valve, when the rope broke and plunged to his death. (Photo by Irving Haberman/IH Images/Getty Images)