The Death of Abe "Kid Twist" Reles

Mysterious Circumstances

Age Of Radio + Bleav

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On November 12th, 1941, Abe 'Kid Twist' Reles fell to his death out of a 6th floor Coney Island hotel window. Set to testify that same day against high level mobsters, most think it was no accident. With failing health and his life in ruins could he have jumped? Was it a prank gone horribly wrong? I guess we'll have to look at the facts and find out.
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0:00.0	Mysterious circumstances is an American crime cast production.
0:05.0	Remember, everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. And then They are. Hey everybody this is Justin with mysterious circumstances
0:38.0	podcast welcome to the show today we have a pretty good mystery for you. It is entitled
0:45.8	the death of Abe Kid Twist Relis, who was a gangster in the 1920s and 30s based out of Brooklyn, New York.
0:56.4	It's a lot of a lot of facts, a lot of who-done it's here.
1:00.5	It could have been suicide, could have been an accident, could have been suicide could have been an accident could have been murder nobody really knows for sure but everybody obviously has their really strong theories about what happened
1:10.2	Now Abe Relis was born May 10th, 1906 in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York.
1:18.0	It is extremely poverty-stricken section of New York along with the Ocean Hill section back at that time
1:26.4	I'm not sure about today's
1:29.1	Financial abilities there it could be better it could be worse, who knows.
1:34.0	Abrillis was not really, how do you say, the smartest guy in the bunch, even though he
1:41.0	actually thought he was. He was an extremely violent man.
1:46.8	He was a professional hitman. He was a contract killer. So with that, with that knowledge going forward if you do have a problem
1:55.4	with talking about lots of death you might want to skip this episode. I assume
2:00.3	that if you do have problems with talking about that kind of stuff, you're probably not going to be listening to the show.
2:05.8	So, grew up running the streets of Brooklyn, New York with a couple of buddies of his named Harry Strauss, whose nickname was Pittsburgh Phil. Not really
2:16.1	sure how he got that nickname's not really relative to my case but he was
2:19.7	not from Pittsburgh and his name was not Phil Strauss and another
2:26.4	childhood friend of his named Martin Goldstein who whose nickname
2:32.2	was Bugsy these guys who's nickname was Bugsie.
2:33.0	These guys, Abre Ellis actually dropped out of school right around the eighth grade
2:40.0	and that's when his life of crime really started taking hold.
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