The Disappearance of Judge Joseph Crater

New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater stepped into a taxi on a Manhattan street on August 6, 1930, and was never seen again. The judge had recently been appointed to the bench and was embroiled in political corruption connected to Tammany Hall. Despite a massive investigation and grand jury proceedings, he was never found. The phrase "pulling a Crater" became New York slang for vanishing without a trace.