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🗓️ 12 September 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello all you dirty rats fans. We've put together two Christmas packages with books and t-shirts to order go to how we car show dot com and click on store. |
0:10.0 | See you later. |
0:12.0 | This podcast contains dramatic reenactments and content that may be considered unsuitable for younger audiences. |
0:19.0 | Listener discretion is advised. |
0:22.0 | The Boston home where late mobster James Whitey Bulger and his gang buried three of their victims is for sale. |
0:30.0 | We looked at this house online. It's nearly two thousand square feet, a two story home. |
0:36.0 | There is a second home behind it, but it's going to set you back a cool $3.5 million. There is no privacy. |
0:44.0 | During Bulger's racketeering trial, a witness said he saw Bulger kill three people in this home. |
0:49.0 | Their bodies were buried in the basement until 1985 when the house hit the market and the bodies were exhumed. |
0:59.0 | It was a rather low key report on the Boston All News radio station, considering the properties blood drenched past. |
1:08.0 | 799 East Third Street in South Boston. During the 2013 trial of Whitey Bulger, federal prosecutors called it the House of Horrors. |
1:20.0 | Whitey Bulger himself referred to it as the Hauntie. |
1:24.0 | It was August 1983. Most of the Winter Hill gang were either in prison or on the lamb after the police busted up their nationwide horse race fixing conspiracy. |
1:36.0 | The two leading mobsters left on the Boston scene, James Whitey Bulger and Stevie Flemmey. |
1:42.0 | They were rapidly moving into cocaine, but as they solidified their grip on the city's drug trade, they were still always on the lookout for a good ruse, a chance to extort something of value from someone they knew. |
1:56.0 | The victims of their shakedowns almost always paid. They had to. The alternative was violence, sometimes death. |
2:05.0 | Arthur Bucky Barrett was one of those victims. Bucky Barrett was 45 years old, a career criminal. He was an associate of Joe Murray at the time the city's biggest drug kingpin from Charlestown. |
2:19.0 | Bucky also owned a piece of a downtown bar, little rascals, but Bucky was best known as the mastermind behind the Depositors Trust Bank burglary. |
2:30.0 | On Memorial Day weekend in 1980, robbers including several local cops had drilled their way into a bank from a adjoining building in Medford Square. |
2:41.0 | They looted dozens of safety deposit boxes. They stole untold millions in cash and jewelry. Whitey Bulger had had nothing to do with the infamous heist, but as always he wanted a cut of the score anyway. |
2:57.0 | He couldn't shake down the cops who had been in on it, so he went after the architect of the burglary, Bucky Barrett. |
3:05.0 | Whitey told Bucky that one of the stolen boxes belonged to Howie Winter, the founder of the Winter Hill gang. Howie Winter was conveniently in state prison at the time, and thus unavailable for comment. |
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