Category: Whitey

I’ve told how I doubt Winter Hill was involved in killing Spike O’Toole. Others were after him for years. Two months or so before he was murdered he was gunned down by others. Murderman Martorano never mentioned that nor did he have him leaving the right barroom just before his murder. Here how Murderman described…

Spike O’Toole was in and out of prison. The first newspaper reference I found relating to him was on July 13, 1965, in the Boston Globe. It read that a Quincy man named John Flannery was shot and dumped from a car at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Tremont Street at 2:56 a.m. He…

Whitey’s entrance into Winter Hill’s embrace had to have been slow, as I’ve written, based upon the need for the hardened gangsters to build up a trust in this unknown quantity and for him to trust them. You don’t go off and murder someone who can  be a witness against you unless you have a…

Dave Farrell  a Boston Globe columnist was known to get his information from FBI and other law enforcement sources. He usually could be depended upon to give a fairly accurate picture of what was happening in the gangster world. He wrote a column in the Globe on April 3, 1973, that stated: “The recent gangland slayings in Boston are…

Objective evidence should control our analysis of Whitey’s life. It is gained and buttressed by an understanding developed by growing up among and associating with people like these criminals, spending years chasing after them, knowing how they think, and utilizing outside and independent documentation where possible. It is not the tales offered by criminals looking…