Category: Boston Gang Wars

September 26, 1964 –    Eaton attended Shirley Industrial School, one of the lockups for juvenile offenders at the time. The Shirley Industrial School incubated many future criminal partnerships and plans such as between Walter J. Elliott and John Robichaud. Eaton tried to leave Shirley before his graduation when he fled from there with two…

August 20, 1964 A couple of days short of a month later after the bodies of Bisesi and Colicci were discovered, the bodies of Harold Hannon age 54 and his buddy 27-year-old Wilfred Delaney were found floating in Boston Harbor. They had met in prison and became fast friends. When they were released, they went…

July 23, 1964 Beware of the company that you keep.  That is the lesson when considering many of the following murders. Search high and low and it is difficult to find anything on Vincent Bisesi other than the news that he was found murdered in the company of Paul J. Colicci. We know the last…

The old story is to become a member of the Mafia, you must make your bones by killing someone. Jerry Angiulo and his brothers, who were all members, were not known to have killed anyone. Jerry, though, talked a tough game and kept a perpetual snarl on his face. For a couple of years, I…

May 13, 1972 People suggest different times of the year when Whitey moved to join up with Howie Winter and to settle the dispute with the Mullens. The ever-unreliable John Martorano has it in the spring of 1972 which would have been after the murder of O’Sullivan and while Donald Killeen was still alive. It…

March 28, 1971 Surprisingly, Pat Nee would suggest the reason Billy O’Sullivan was murdered was because he shot Donald McGonagle. He wrote revenge was high on the Mullens’ agenda and that they went into the planning mode immediately after Donald’s murder. You would have to consider that an unusually long planning session. It was 16…