Children
Jimmy and Mickey Burke had four children.
Frank James Burke (1960 - 1987) was one of two sons born to James and Michelle "Mickey" Burke in Brooklyn. Like his father, he was a career criminal and a suspect in the Lufthansa Heist. He was well known in mob circles as a heroin and cocaine addict and was arrested several times for drug possession. He spent time at Robert's Lounge and The Linen Suite Lounge, which was a hangout for hijackers, burglars, thieves and scam artists. One of his father's proteges, Tommy DeSimone, took Frank on his first "hit" (contract killing) when Frank was sixteen or seventeen.
On May 18, 1987, at 2:30 AM, Frank was found by police, shot to death, at 1043 Liberty Avenue in the Cypress Hills section of Brooklyn. He was 27 years old. There is no record of any remorse or grief from Jimmy Burke about his son's death.
A second son, Jesse James Burke, is not involved in organized crime.
Burke's daughter, Catherine, married Bonanno mobster Anthony Indelicato in 1992.
Burke has a second, unidentified, daughter.
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