The Blog has taken a bit of a hiatus but it will be back regularly on Monday. In the meantime, a post from the past (March 17, 2013): Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Billy made a comment yesterday about the St. Patrick’s day parade in South Boston. For background, he is co-author of a book about …
Taking a break from the gangsters to remember one of the great crusaders chasing them down. You will be missed, John Kivlan. John Kivlan, a celebrated attorney and former prosecutor who garnered national attention for his conviction of a gunman who killed two women during a 1994 shooting rampage at Brookline abortion clinics, died Wednesday, …
Wishing everyone Peace and Prosperity on this Orthodox Christmas Day, especially to the Ukrainians who have had to suffer through 318 days of death and destruction during a brutal invasion.
April 18, 1967 Joseph Lanzi worked as a bartender at various joints in Boston. He was in the front passenger seat of a car on April 18, 1967. Two Medford police officers saw it run a red light. They did a U turn and went after the car. A short chase followed before the …
December 7, 1966 Chico was 6’ 2” and weighed over two hundred pounds. He was known for wearing long dark Chesterfield coats with velvet collars over sports shirts without a jacket or tie. He had been married and divorced. He had a minor record until August 1966, when along with Joe Barboza and Nick Femia, …
I often think had these gangsters spent more time listening to nursey rhymes as kids rather than playing with guns they might have been a lot better off. When I think of how Tommy DePrisco and Tash Bratsos died, I immediately recall a nursery rhyme I heard as a kid: Three little mice sat down …
Read more “North End Murders- Thomas De Prisco and Arthur “Tash” Bratsos”