Author: mtc9393

As an American Irish Catholic growing up I thought this country was wonderful for welcoming my grandparents to its shores. All the members of my family, my grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins were Irish. One died during WWII when his B–17 went down. Others, uncles and cousins on both sides were in the armed service….

Shirley Leung of the Globe the former president of the Asian American Journalist Association and a graduate of Princeton wrote an article yesterday the first sentence of which read: “A lot of us didn’t go to Boston Latin, but what’s going on at the prestigious public high school should matter to everyone.” She tells us…

In the Boston Strangler case over a 196 day period from June 14 to December 31, 1962, there were 7 white women murders attributed to the Strangler; over a 106 day period in 1979 between January 29 and May 7 there were 11 black women murdered. The murder of white women was at the rate of about one every 26 days compared with…

I’ll get to the Boston Strangler in a minute but I want you to pause and think of what would have happened had black lives mattered back in 1968 when Dixon, Barrett and Smith were murdered. A half decent investigation very well could have solved those murders. There were clues everywhere. The FBI very likely…

Flemmi had become an FBI informant on November 27, 1965. On January 6, 1968 when he was beaten by Smith I suggested the FBI must have known about it. Martorano wrote in his book. An FBI informant later recounted the incident in vague terms, perhaps not realizing the connection to the three murders.” Most likely…

In his book Martorano told us his version of why the triple-homicide took place. The day before the murder he received a call from Stevie Flemmi who told him he had beeb beaten up at Basin Street. He said that Smith held his arms while the other guys did the job on him. Martorano was…