The Many Deaths of Iron Mike Malloy

Scoundrel: History's Forgotten Villains

KAST MEDIA | Jason and Carissa Weiser

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🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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It’s 1933 and the Great Depression is ravaging New York City. A group of men calling themselves the Murder Trust come up with the perfect scheme to score a quick buck. Secure a life insurance policy on a a local alcoholic vagrant and then meticulously conceal his cold blooded murder. The only problem for them is the local drunk they picked to kill is a man named Michael Malloy - a man who simply won’t die.

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0:00.0	Mike Maloy needs to die.
0:10.7	7 p.m., early January, it's a cold night when Tony Moreno looks out the door of his
0:15.8	storefront.
0:16.8	It's finally dark enough.
0:19.3	Time to open for business.
0:21.3	He slides boxes away from the storefront windows, faded from the sun on one side.
0:26.8	On the day they provide camouflage for the emptiness inside the store.
0:31.2	At night, they form a well-worn path to the back of the room.
0:35.6	It's 1933, and the country is in the middle of what will be known as the Great Depression.
0:42.2	Empty storefronts aren't the exception.
0:44.2	They're the rule.
0:46.6	Moreno runs in illegal speak easy out of the back of the store.
0:50.2	Has been ever since the start of prohibition back in 1920.
0:53.9	But he's seen the writing on the wall, and knows he needs a plan B.
0:58.1	An exit strategy.
0:59.8	He needs Mike.
1:03.1	Moreno walks to the front and unlocks the door.
1:06.3	Right on schedule, Michael Maloy waltzes inside.
1:10.4	He's beyond first name basis.
1:12.8	He's a regular, and so he sits down and orders his usual.
1:17.2	Only it doesn't go on his tab, because the guy doesn't have one.
1:23.4	More along the line, Maloy signed a paper in exchange for never going thirsty again.
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