The Violent Life and Death of Contract Killer Elmer “Trigger” Burke

In June 1954, contract killer Elmer “Trigger” Burke was in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston on “business.” Burke was stalking a man named Joseph “Specs” O’Keefe. Four and a half years earlier, O’Keefe along with ten others had been a participant in the famous<a href="https://www.tftunderworld.com/p/the-great-boston-brinks-robbery" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"> Brinks robbery in Boston</a>, in which the thieves had made off with nearly $3 million in cash and securities. In the years following the robbery, dissension between O’Keefe and the other participants had caused a bitter fallout. O’Keefe felt that the other robbers were holding back on him and not giving him his cut of the money. This was exacerbated by the fact that O’Keefe had multiple criminal cases pending against him simultaneously and needed cash to pay for his legal defense. <a href="https://medium.com/tftunderworld/the-violent-life-and-death-of-contract-killer-elmer-trigger-burke-5c2d6ce1a97a">Click Here</a>