The Mammoth Book Of Bizarre Crimes - Plot & Excerpts
When the mob bosses wanted to eliminate someone who was a threat or a rival, or who had simply outlived their usefulness, a contract was issued to a middleman or broker who hired the hit man. This arrangement meant that the puppet master was completely insulated from the eventual killing. Murder management of this kind ensured that very few gangland killings were ever solved.The concept of the contracted or hired killer readily translated into the general domain, especially for those with wealth and power. If the gangland bosses could hire people to do their killing for them, why not others who saw murder as a convenient way of solving problems and eliminating those who stood in their way?Dr Karl Menninger, the eminent US psychiatrist, put it succinctly in the context of capital punishment when he wrote that if the state can justify hiring someone to do its killing why shouldn’t powerful people do the same?The hired killer is usually a person who is a stranger to his targeted victim and operates to a preconceived plan dispassionately and with ruthless efficiency.
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