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…

November 18, 1969 Fifty-one years and one week after the Armistice that ended the fighting in World War I, Donald McGonagle was murdered on November 18, 1969.  Although it is attributed to the Killeen/ Mullen war, in part because his brother Paulie was one of the Mullen’s leaders, it had nothing to do with it….

South Boston (Southie) is somewhat of an isolated perimeter on the southern part of Boston harbor. It played a significant role in the Revolutionary War. George Washington mounted cannons on a hill in the center of Southie called Dorchester Heights. The cannons arrived there after a 300-mile trek from Boston to Fort Ticonderoga in New…

Frank Salemme said Peter Poulos was a non-violent guy. He kept the books for the hoodlums. He did the books for Salemme’s football cards; he did the Bennett/Flemmi numbers books. He was, as we have seen, a witness to their murder of Billy Bennett. When word came down that indictments were going to be issued…

Richard Grasso, the driver in the Billy Bennett fiasco, had to know that his life was not worth a plug nickel. Looks can be deceiving but Grasso’s looks would not make you think he was the brightest bulb on the marquee.  The police considered him: “a two bit hood” – “a small time thief and…