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Show 'Vicious Killer,' So Called By FBI, Dies in Sing Sing OSSINING, N. Y. Jacob "Gur-rah" "Gur-rah" Shapiro, once described by the F.B.I, as the most vicious killer in New York," died in Sing Sing prison hospital. Shapiro, 56, who had been a patient pa-tient in the prison hospital since last October with a heart condition, was sentenced in 1944 to from 15 years to life on an extortion charge. He had been linked with multimillion-dollar industrial rackets and had a record of 100 arrests and four convictions. |