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Here’s what we knew from the Connolly trial and from the books the Kevin Weeks has written.  Weeks was the lookout for Whitey when they drove down to the waterfront in South Boston on May 11, 1982  to murder Brian Halloran and Michael Donahue.  Whitey was driving what he called the tow truck which was a…

A Crime Story: Siobhán O’Malley set up a successful business in the Big Apple called the South Side Souvenir Stand. Wanting to expand, she chose Boston. Through a contact in the BRA, she was able to lease a piece of city land in the Waterfront District of South Boston. She called her business  the Southie Souvenir…

I finally published my book about the Trial of Whitey Bulger’s handler on Amazon called “Don’t Embarrass The Family”.  It costs $20.00 for the hard copy and $7.50 for the Kindle edition. I had no idea it would cost that much for the hard copy but I guess Amazon wants to get its pint of…

We’ve been through the first five murders which Whitey is accused of committing. Martorano is the witness against him in all those. Writing of Martorano I have to say I’ll never understand why he did not just go off into the sun set and live the rest of his life thanking his God that he…

The trouble with gangster books is that you don’t know where the truth is hidden. We saw this with Murder Man Martorano’s description of the first two murders charged against Whitey, he won’t identify who was beside him firing a machine gun. Pat Nee changed the names of the murderers to only dead guys. He…

Keep in mind the courtroom setting: the old guy with the beard sitting at counsel table; the prototypical Mafia gangster Martorano sitting in the witness stand. The jury has heard about all his murders long before he gets involved with Whitey. Carney has gone over each of these murders to show that the witness, who…