Author: mtc9393

John Martorano was born December 13, 1940. His brother James was born a year later on December 10, 1941. John was a tough guy… until he started looking at having to do prison time. Back in the late Seventies, Martorano had been caught by the Plymouth District Attorney’s office in a wiretap of a bookie…

The body of Andrew Von Etter age 27 was found on February 7, 1967, severely bludgeoned, garroted with the rope left around his neck and shot at least twice. The garroting would tend so make one think about a Mafia type killing. However, other facts point toward the Wimpy Bennett gang. Von Etter had a…

If you can tell who a person is by the company he keeps and the actions he takes, then you already know Wady David.  He was a South End character arrested at age 39 for possession of a knife and illegal drugs. The arrest in of itself is not particularly interesting until you learn the…

John Martorano tells a tale about Reddington. He called him a Roxbury loan shark and went on: “Wimpy Bennett borrowed $25,000 from Reddington, then figured out a way he wouldn’t have to pay. He called one of the local McLaughlins, a guy named Spike O’Toole, and told him that Reddington had been sleeping with his…

Robert Rasmussen was no stranger to crime. Born in June 1928 he was sentenced in February 1952 to 2 ½ to 3 years in state prison as an accessory before the fact to an armed robbery. Released in August 1954, he was again sentenced to 3 to 4 years in state prison in May 1958…

John Murray was the older brother of William Murray. John was present at the time of the murder of William T. Treannie, which is written about later. Setting aside Janice O’Keefe who said she was also present at the Treannie murder, two others were at the scene, John’s brother William and Robert Cook. William and…