Author: mtc9393

Junior lived in the same neighborhood as I did. I would see him on occasion and talk to him. It’s my recollection we called him Junior but others called him Tony. I was more friendly with his brother Ralph one of the nicest guys I knew. Unfortunately, he died after a fall in October 2019….

Here’s how John Martorano tells the tale of these three murders of Herbert Smith, Elizabeth Dickson and Douglas Barrett.  Martorano says he did not know Herbert Smith. He was told by Steve Flemmi in the early morning of January 5, 1968, that Herbert Smith had beat him up at Basin Street, the bar owned by…

The killing of Bobby Palladino let John breathe a little easier. But the district attorney was still investigating the Margaret Sylvester murder. The DA had empaneled an investigative grand jury. Martorano knew witnesses to the murder might be pressured into telling what happened by the grand jury. One obvious witness would have been the bartender,…

John Martorano said he first met former convict Bobby Palladino in 1962 at Jules’ Pool Room which had an ongoing, never-ending crap game. Palladino was one of the few white men who went to Jules’. Palladino had been in trouble since he was 17 when he was arrested for an armed robbery. His last time…

Margaret Sylvester was a 35-year-old waitress, mother of a 14-year-old son, an attractive blonde, five foot eight inches weighing 140 pounds. She had been a waitress for a long time at Luigi’s.  She was found wrapped up in a rug on November 10, 1964, having been stabbed in the abdomen three times.  Boston police discovered…