March 12, 1965 –  The murder of Teddy Deegan has been talked about in Boston for decades. The reason is Joe “the Animal” Barboza along with several others were involved in murdering him. It was a planned murder that seemed to have little reason behind it as best one can tell. It was discussed with…

January 25, 1965 –  Joseph R. Francione was murdered on a Monday. His death was reported in the newspapers on the next day. They told how he had been shot twice in the back of his head at his apartment at 49 South Street Revere. The newspapers noted that Henry Reddington had been found murdered…

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…