The Government’s Great Deal With A Serial Murderer Who Brags About His Deeds

Gangster Thursday is a good day to talk about Howard Carr’s big buddy John Martorano.   Martorano is walking the street after having murdered twenty persons.  People who kill that many people usually are called serial murderers and locked up for life.  In Texas and Florida people are executed for killing one or two people. …

How The FBI Framed An Innocent Massachusetts State Trooper

My telling of the story of Trooper John Naimovich must be like a serialization.  To understand it you have to know what I’ve written on past Wednesdays.  Serialization is as old as Sheherazade’s stories in One Thousand and One Nights.  It gained immense popularity in the 19th Century when most good authors like Dickens produced …

Whitey Bulger’s Friends — The FBI – Fidelity Before Integrity

In 1988 – I place the time then because it was in that year that the Boston Globe came out with the Spotlight Team article on the Bulger brothers – I received a call from Kevin Cullen a Globe columnist.  I’d talked to Kevin on occasion over the years.   This time he wanted to know …

Whitey’s Murder Victims — The Burden on the Government

Whitey’s charged with 19 murders listed by date: Michael Milarno (3/8/73),  Al Plummer (3/19/73), William O’Brien (3/24/73), James O’Toole (12/1/73) , Al Notorangeli,(2/21/74),  James Sousa (10/74).  Then Paul McGonagle (11/74), Edward Connors (6/12/75) Thomas King (11/5/75), Francis ‘Buddy” Leonard (11/6/75) , Richard Castucci (12/30/76), Roger Wheeler (5/27/81),  Debra Davis (late 1981),  Brian Halloran (5/11/82), Michael …

A Criminal & An Irishman — Patrick Nee — Whitey Bulger’s Partner

This is a tale written in 2006 by a man born in Galway in 1943 who arrived in Southie when he was eight years old.  He wasn’t the toughest guy in the neighborhood like all the other gangsters who wrote books about Southie like Eddie MacKenzie’s, Street Soldier, or John Shea’s Rat Bastards or Kevin Weeks’s Brutal.  Nee suggests …