The end of the Pre-Flemmi Years is a good time to stop to reflect upon a shockingly erroneous belief that has come to the fore in these matters. I pause now because I suggest I’ve just clearly shown that Murderman John Martorano has played, to put it mildly, very loosely with the truth. I pointed…
Month: January 2013
§21: Re-Examining Whitey Bulger: The Learning Years: Martorano’s Hollywood Creation Of A Murder
I’ve told how I doubt Winter Hill was involved in killing Spike O’Toole. Others were after him for years. Two months or so before he was murdered he was gunned down by others. Murderman Martorano never mentioned that nor did he have him leaving the right barroom just before his murder. Here how Murderman described…
§20: Re-Examining Whitey Bulger: The Learning Years: A Reflection On Murderman’s Evidence
Why am I analyzing these things when you know down the line that I’m going to have Whitey involved in some of the murders that he is charged with? I suppose it’s the same reason we have in our common law tradition for giving the defendant a right to confront the witnesses against her and…
§19: Re-Examining Whitey Bulger: The Learning Years: Spike O’Toole And The Historic Staggering Walk:
Spike O’Toole was in and out of prison. The first newspaper reference I found relating to him was on July 13, 1965, in the Boston Globe. It read that a Quincy man named John Flannery was shot and dumped from a car at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Tremont Street at 2:56 a.m. He…
§18: Re-Examining Whitey Bulger: The Learning Years: Who Murdered Spike O’Toole:
Whitey’s entrance into Winter Hill’s embrace had to have been slow, as I’ve written, based upon the need for the hardened gangsters to build up a trust in this unknown quantity and for him to trust them. You don’t go off and murder someone who can be a witness against you unless you have a…
§17: Re-Examining Whitey Bulger: The Learning Years: The Status Of Things In Mid-1973
Dave Farrell a Boston Globe columnist was known to get his information from FBI and other law enforcement sources. He usually could be depended upon to give a fairly accurate picture of what was happening in the gangster world. He wrote a column in the Globe on April 3, 1973, that stated: “The recent gangland slayings in Boston are…