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Boston Confidential Beantown's True Crime Podcast
Author: Barry J. Maguire
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An unflinching look at Boston's criminal underbelly. The host, Barry Maguire, a veteran private investigator, will take you on a compelling journey through some of Boston's most infamous crimes! Barry was born and raised in South Boston and brings a unique Bostonian perspective to the true crime genre.
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Send us a text Two parolees one jailed more than seventeen times, the other committed more than twenty burglaries and was freed from an ankle monitor three days prior. The Petit family was set for a relaxing Sunday dinner and a needed family night. Things would never be the same. The murderers stated they just wanted money, the evidence suggests they wanted to commit robbery, rape and murder. They were sentenced to death, but politics, quickly halted the jury's lawful sentence. This episode ...
Send us a text A quintessential Boston story, a group of robbers, on Boston's north shore, all with colorful lives, plan a major heist that would soon take on a life of its own and, go down in history. Listen to this episode to find out what a majority of the gang did for straight jobs? You won't believe it "trust" me! Feel free to contact us at bostonconfidential.net X-bcpbeantown Email-barry@bostonconfidential.net
Send us a text In 1997 Sal Sicari lead his fellow pedophile Charles Jaynes to his neighbor in East Cambridge, Ma, ten year old Jeffery Curley. When Jeffery resisted their sexual advances, Jaynes placed a gas soaked rag over the child's mouth and used his obese body to suffocate Jeffery. The duo sexually defiled the boy's body and later dumped the body in coastal New Hampshire. The investigation quickly focuses on Sal Sicari, as he interjected himself into the investigation. Sicari confessed a...
Send us a text Before the OJ Simpson trial, the Claus Von Bulow case was the trial of the century. It was the first nationally televised criminal trial. This case has it all wealth, sex and murder. This case provides a peek into the secretive lives of socialites. Sunny Von Bulow inherited over 200 million dollars at age three. She was a constant on the Manhattan and Newport society scene and her apparently aristocratic husband Claus, fit right in. As the 1980's rolled around the talk of divor...
Send us a text In excess of ten women from New England have been found dead, some under eerily similar circumstances. The cases leave only the state of Maine exempt from the victim list. In conducting a rudimentary victimology, you come to find that several of the women had histories with addiction, domestic violence and generally, a tough life. Police agencies including the Massachusetts State Police and Connecticut State Police do not believe that the cases are linked. In several of the cas...
Send us a text Station Nightclub Fire 2003-Scott James wrote the definitive book on the Station Nightclub Fire, in West Warwick, Rhode Island. The book "Trial By Fire" takes the reader by the lapels and propels them trough the actual fire and the grisly aftermath. The author also sheds light on some inaccurate local reporting and political maneuvering, that was uniquely Rhode Island. So many things had to go wrong at the same time in this case and they did. The difference between life and dea...
Send us a text The unabashed FBI corruption in Boston continues. John Connolly helped Whitey Bulger and his crew kill; Richard Castucci in '76, Brian Halloran '82 John Callahan '82. He also ran cover for the gang against the Massachusetts State Police and the DEA. The FBI's assistance allowed the Winter Hill Gang to surpass the local mafia in earning power and underworld prestige, killing gangsters and civilians along the way. How many citizens would be alive today if the FBI were actual cops...
Send us a text n a stream of unending incompetence the federal government moved notorious gangster and murderer James "Whitey" Bulger was moved to a prison in West Virginia, despite knowing that confirmed violent, gangsters from Massachusetts were being housed there. Two violent gangsters discovered that Bulger would arrive at the prison shortly, actually both guards and inmates knew that Whitey was on the way. Bulger lasted less than twelve hours at Hazelton Prison. Two inmates are alleged t...
Send us a text It appears that the case against Turleboy may be falling apart. The main witness in the case renamed the titles of video and articles to make them appear threatening to witnesses in this case, the state police didn't bother to check the evidence before presenting it to the grand jury, an obvious fraud upon the court. Some legal experts predict an evidentiary hearing featuring Mrs. Kate Peter, who openly admits she has had an ax to grind against her former employer Aiden Kearney...
Send us a text The HBO film Trial 4, is a virtual hagiography for Sean Ellis. The HBO-Netflix documentary is so slanted in favor of Sean Ellis it is difficult to digest. In order to believe Sean Ellis is innocent, you'd have to believe that his uncle, best friend, and girlfriend were (are) lying. To our knowledge none of these witnesses, that tied Ellis directly to the brutal 1993, homicide recanted their testimony, why? Sean Ellis's co-defendant told the police Sean Ellis shot Det. Mulligan ...
Send us a text Union Maine is a slice of Americana, a vestige of times past, the town was pulled into the twenty-first apparently by seventeen year old Devan Young. Its been reported that the crime scene, a 100 acre island within Crawford Pond, was a brutal one, with likely DNA transfer. Devan Young purportedly inserted himself into the investigation and attempted to lead Maine State Police away from the crime scene and Sunny's body. He was ultimately arrested and charged with murder, July 16...
Send us a text Adam Lally had to explain his glaring incompetence in a murder case, unfortunately it was not in the Karen Read trial. The Norfolk County District attorney's office is both corrupt and incompetent. It is difficult to determine which crappy decision, lead to the intersection of incompetence and corruption, yet here we are. The NCDA's doesn't even have a professional case management system, which contributes to this ongoing fiasco, but the ADA's would not have the inc...
Send us a text In one of the most heart wrenching stories in New England crime history, in 1976 Andy Puglisi, went to a neighborhood pool, located in Lawerence, Massachusetts and was never heard from again. A man had been taking Polaroid pictures of kids at the pool for several weeks. Andy had given his mother one. Andy disappeared and despite thousands searching, he was not found. Two weeks later, a notorious pedophile, Wayne Chapman was arrested in Waterloo, NY. He possessed several childre...
Send us a text It begins! The retrial of Karen Read is underway, approximately 9-10 jurors have been seated so far. A full jury is likely to be seated this week. Judge Bev denied the defense motion for a police policy and procedure expert Mike Easter. The judge says that normal police procedure is within the common knowledge of laypersons? The third party culprit defense has been winnowed down to two potential culprits. Brian Albert and Brian Higgins. Colin Albert can no longer be consi...
Send us a text An unsolved double homicide from idyllic Rockport, Massachusetts in 1932 rocked eastern Massachusetts. Boston Confidential interviews Robert Fitzgibbon, author of Murder In Rockport, Terror in a small town. The depression struck hard on Cape Ann, the quarry business dissipated and double digit unemployment was the norm. On May 21, 1932 town tailor Arthur Oker was found murdered in his shop, the following Halloween a fellow congregant Augusta Johnson had threatened in church tha...
Send us a text In this episode the BCP covers the most frequently cited theories, including our own, What actually happened that fateful night of February 4, 2004? We cover some interesting facts, that are not typically discussed, the grand jury and several suspects. What happened that night in New Hampshire? Its become of of the most enduring mysteries in New England crime stories. This case can be solved! Please share this episode! The Disappearance of Maura Murray-Amazon-https://a...
Send us a text A flurry of motions with a sprinkling of missing witnesses, was on display in the Karen Read case last week. Aiden Kearney is listed as a Prosecution witness, while Allie McCabe is removed. Allie’s timeline seemingly proved too problematic for the state. Dighton Sgt. Barros was also left off the Prosecution witness list. Don’t worry, the Defense will call them both. The madness continues as we head for trial 2. Please Share this episode!! TB Daily News-https://bit.ly/4bQD3ZT Ne...
Send us a text The Heath Street gang has been a blight on the Bromley-Heath Housing project for decades, but a large scale raid in 2024, has decimated the gang. The gang's members were deadly, but not very smart. During one foray into murder, one Heath Street gang member, shot another, while the duo tried to kill a gang rival. Another member conducted a shooting, while on an ankle monitor for another felony, that's the level of intelligence that the FBI and other authorities were dealing with...
Send us a text How much weight will Judge Cannone give the new motion to dismiss for Extraordinary Government Misconduct? Will she dismiss the case? Probably not, but there will have to be some penalty. The motion is heavily redacted, at least on the Jury Tampering element, described by the defense. The motion also covers the inverted video in the sally-port and Brady violations pertaining to the video and Jen McCabe’s visit to Lt. Lank’s house, the day after John’s murder. This case is a mes...
Send us a text Kimberly had a host of issues, crack cocaine chief among them. She was trying to get her life in order, so her seven year old child could have a future. She was walking with a friend Halloween night, when a pack of gang members ran them both down and beat them with a tree branch, they were robbed of one dollar and then Kimberly suffered what can only be described as nazi level torture. Kim was stabbed and slashed over 130 times. stomped and kicked countless times, but that wasn...