Category: Boston Gang Wars

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…