Joseph Crater (left) and his wife, Stella, photographed in Maine on August 3, 1930. 3 days later, on August 6, Crater, a justice of the New York Supreme Court, vanished without a trace. He was never seen or heard from again.
Joseph Force Crater was a Tammany Hall insider who had just landed a prestigious judgeship paying $23,000 a year.
He was tangled up in corruption, office-buying schemes, and shady real estate deals. He had a taste for Broadway chorus girls, speakeasies run by gangsters, and envelopes stuffed with cash.
The disappearance was preceded by suspicious behaviour.
While on vacation in Maine with his wife, Crater received a mysterious phone call and immediately told Stella he needed to return to New York on urgent business.
Back in the city, he went to his office and destroyed documents, shuttled others to his apartment, and withdrew large sums of cash from his bank accounts.
That evening he had dinner with friends at Billy Haas's Chophouse on West 45th Street, stepped outside, hailed a cab, and vanished into Manhattan traffic. He was 41 years old.
Over 16,000 leads were investigated. His showgirl girlfriend also disappeared around the same time and was never found.
The phrase "pulling a Crater" entered American slang as shorthand for going AWOL.
Then in 2005 came the closest thing to an answer.
A woman who had recently d*ed left a handwritten note claiming her husband and several other men, including a police officer, had m*rdered Crater and buried his body beneath a section of the boardwalk at Coney Island.
That section had been paved over decades earlier. It was never excavated.
Every year until her death in 1969, Stella would visit a bar in Greenwich Village on August 6, sit alone, and order two drinks.
She would have only one, raise the other, and say: "Good luck, Joe, wherever you are."
📰 BALDANZI-GENOA, SI ATTENDE L'INSEDIAMENTO DI D'AMICO: DA DEFINIRE FORMULA E CIFRE
"La prossima sarà una settimana decisiva per la Roma: dall'insediamento del nuovo ds Tony D'Amico ai rinnovi dei giocatori in scadenza il trenta giugno, arrivando al capitolo delle cessioni e al lancio della campagna abbonamenti. Ma saranno giorni importanti anche per il Genoa che attende l'ufficialità di D'Amico per piazzare l'assalto decisivo a Tommaso Baldanzi. Che il futuro del trequartista ancora di proprietà della Roma sia in rossoblù non sembra essere in dubbio: l'ex Empoli è l'obiettivo numero uno per Daniele De Rossi e il club ligure vuole riscattarlo.
Restano da definire, tuttavia, la formula che verrà utilizzata e le cifre complessive dell'accordo, con la probabilità che si vada verso una valutazione leggermente più bassa rispetto ai dieci milioni di euro inizialmente pattuiti. C'è comunque tempo fino a metà giugno per esercitare l'opzione di riscatto e i contatti tra le parti vanno avanti senza sosta."
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Accordo tra la Juventus e Alexander Sørloth sui termini contrattuali.
Trattativa in corso tra il club italiano e l’Atletico Madrid alla ricerca di un’intesa.
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A generational talent is available for a bargain fee, yet Europe's elite remain uninterested? Barcelona somehow chose to spend nearly €80m on Anthony Gordon instead. A grave injustice for one of the game's most technically gifted wingers.
"Just staying together as a group and knowing the biggest goal is to win.”
@Therealkiss asks Mikal Bridges how the coaching staff and his teammates have helped him stay in the right mindset.
🚨 Excl. - #Bologna are planning to extend Antonio #Raimondo’s contract with an increase in salary. Then he could leave on loan: #Frosinone are in pole position. #transfers
Alexander Zverev is a Grand Slam champion at last 🏆
The German fulfils a lifelong dream at Roland Garros, overcoming Flavio Cobolli 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-1 to capture his maiden major title.
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🚨 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: A further note from Morten Boesen, the Denmark National Team Doctor:
🗣️ Boesen: "Christian is doing well and walked off the pitch by himself. As I see it, the pacemaker responded as it should.
He was briefly unconscious, but regained consciousness very quickly, and we were quickly in contact with him.
He will now undergo further examinations at the hospital to determine what caused the incident. We are in ongoing contact with him and the doctors at the hospital.
But Christian is doing well, and he asked me to send his regards to all the players and tell them that he was okay."
🚨 Bayern president Hainer: “If Florentino Pérez wants to send us a bid for Olise - which has not happened so far - he can SAVE HIMSELF THE TROUBLE”.
“Michael Olise is a player of FC Bayern with a long-term contract. We are NOT a selling club”, told BILD.