WILLIAM CAMERON, 49 June 10, 1956 On June 10, 1956, after receiving a phone call, the Boston Police found William Cameron murdered. I decided to start with William Cameron because his murder both links to the Boston gang past and looks forward. Four murders in the next two years appear to be connected to…
Category: Boston Gang Wars
Boston Gang Wars – The Gangs
A necessary step to piece together the murders in the Boston Gang Wars is to identify the gangs and the gang members. You cannot depend upon what the federal prosecutors present. They throw in anyone who has even marginal contact with the gang so as to awe the jury. The prosecutors showed an exhibit of…
Boston Gang Wars- Read the Clues to the Murders
Clues hide in the murders. I suggest the clues are significant in ascertaining the party that committed the murder. The McLeans were not in the murdering business in their early years. Later, when the McLean gang became the Winter Hill gang and murderers joined, the gang started murdering by shooting. But the Winter Hill other…
Boston Gang Wars- Dearth of Information
We all have ideas about criminal activities in the decades of the fifties, sixties and seventies. We have read news stories, books, and seen great movies depicting the times and activities. I believed in the reports and books that I read until I began to dig deeper. As I dug, I discovered huge falsehoods. I…
Boston Gang Wars: The FBI and the Mafia
The word around Boston among the Mafia was that the FBI wanted to protect the Irish so the FBI could go after the Mafia. The FBI did go after the Mafia rather than the Irish. The FBI pursued the Mafia because of one reason: the Mafia embarrassed its leader J. Edgar Hoover. For many years…
Introduction: Origins of the Irish-Italian Gang Wars
Boston was a city that welcomed European immigrants throughout the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth century. Large numbers of Italian immigrants settled in Boston’s North End in the late 19th century. Equally great numbers of Irish immigrants settled in South Boston, “Southie” during the same period. Both sections border the Boston Harbor, separated…