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Irving Ashkenas

Case from New-york, NY dated Sep 01, 1936

Victim Details

Irving Ashkenas

Male

New-york

NY

1936-09-01

34

Irving

Ashkenas

07/05/2026

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In the late summer of 1936, the life of Irving Ashkenas, a 34-year-old man, came to a violent and abrupt end. In the early morning hours of September 5th, a milkman discovered Ashkenas's body sprawled outside his taxi cab near the entrance of the Paramount Manor, ironically known as the 'Hotel of Happiness,' in the Catskills region of upstate New York. Ashkenas, who worked as a self-employed taxi driver splitting his time between Brooklyn and Loch Sheldrake, had been brutally killed. An examinat ...
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  • Times Herald-Record: Brutal '36 slaying business of Murder, Inc.
  • New York Daily News: PHOTOS: In Plain Sight: Mob brutality on the streets of New York
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