Mafia Hitmen And Assassins: The True Crime Stories of Contract Killers by Daniel Brand

Author:Daniel Brand
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: true mafia story, hitman, true detective, contract killers, True Crime, assassin, hitmen, gangsters
Publisher: Tru Nobilis Publishing
Published: 2019-07-31T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7: Frank Abbandando

Frank Abbandando was another member of the infamous Murder, Inc., a contract killer. He carried the nickname “The Dasher.” He earned the nickname after showing a talent for baseball at reform school.

Born on July 11th, 1910, he was one of twelve children in an Italian family who had come there from Avellino. Similar to many other future mafia members, he started by extorting money out of local shopkeepers, threatening to burn down their shops if they didn’t pay him a fee.

He eventually joined a street gang, becoming a trusted lieutenant for a man named Harry Maione. It was through him that he began organizing gambling rings and participating in loan sharking. As for what he would do for fun, it was said he enjoyed hunting down young women to rape, driving around the neighborhood. He may have even raped his future wife before marrying her. It was around this time that he began committing murders, using an ice pick to stab them in the chest. When he was eighteen, he was convicted of beating up a New York police officer and was sentenced to reform school.

He married his wife, Jennie DeLuca, who was also very young at that time, and they had their first child, Lawrence, in 1927, when he was only 17. Lawrence was born out of wedlock (he may have even been conceived by rape), so their parents insisted that the two of them get married. Their second son was born in 1935, Frank Jr. Both his sons would end up becoming involved in the mob.

Abbandando joined Murder, Inc. sometime during the 1920s and likely in its very early days of conception. By the time the 1930s rolled around, it was said that he had killed at least thirty people, getting paid around $500 for murder. He assisted in the murders of the Shapiro brothers as well as George Rudnick, a could-be police informant. Abbandando used an ice pick and a cleaver, strangling Rudnick and stabbing him several dozen times, and then proceeded to crush his head. Nobody was arrested.

But, at the beginning of the 1940s, Murder, Inc. received a big blow to its chain of command. Many of its leaders and their top hitmen were convicted, which only became worse once Reles turned against them. Because of this, Abbandando ended up being put on trial for the Rudnick murder.

Abbandando was extremely cocky during the trial, convinced that he would get out of it, thanks to the mafia’s alleys inside the courthouse. He even went as far as to whisper a threat into the judge’s ear when he was on the witnesses stand. To his amazement, he ended up being given the guilty verdict. This verdict ended up being appealed, but the second trial had the same result.

In April 3rd, 1941, Abbandando was found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death by the electric chair. He seemed to accept this and actually approached his death in good humor. He displayed no fear and chose to mock and curse out the guards.

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