Welcome to Boston Confidential, Bean Towns True Crime Podcast.

Boston is a great city, but there's more to it than the Freedom Trail in Fenway Park.

There's a startling underbelly to the city, and Boston Confidential will take you on a guided tour of the hub of the universe, Boston, Massachusetts.

Hey, everybody, welcome back to Boston Confidential. My name's Barry McGuire, and I'm your host. I'm a 20-year private investigator on the streets of Boston, and I help run a company called Impact Due Diligence Investigations.

If you need anything in terms of investigative services, feel free to contact me at Impact.

If I can't help you personally, I'll certainly direct you to the right person or agency.

Hi, guys. Welcome back to Boston Confidential. Just some housekeeping stuff. I really just wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you. You'll be receiving this podcast on Thanksgiving week. And one of the things I'm thankful for this holiday is the audience of Boston Confidential. I never dreamed it would get so big so fast. I honestly didn't

think anybody would listen. But here we are. And I had just gotten an email from one of the

podcast hosting services. And they alerted us that we're doing better than 86% of all podcasts

in the United States.

So that kind of blew my socks off a little bit.

So thank you to the audience, and we've just surpassed 120,000 downloads in a little over a year.

And that's kind of unheard of in the podcasting industry.

And I owe it all to you guys. So I just want to take this opportunity to say, happy Thanksgiving to all our fans in the United States. I wish you the best holiday.

When you sit down and give thanks, please remember to be thankful for the United States of America.

We're free people and we're strong people people and we're more united than anyone thanks.

So from my family to yours, happy Thanksgiving. All right, guys, let's get to it. I just wanted to touch base a little bit on our previous episodes. We did a brief series, a two-part series on the Boston Strangling Case here on Boston Confidential. It was extremely well received,

and I got a ton of emails on it. So much I didn't know. Again, one of the things that kind of

stood out about that time, the early 1960s,

in Boston, was you could live in almost any neighborhood with any type of job. It was so much

different than it is today. I mean, rents in my former hometown of South Boston are about $3,200

for a two-bedroom, you know. And in those days, you could

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