Blackfriars Massacre 1978-Five men with strong organized crime ties, shotgunned in a dank basement

Boston Confidential Beantown's True Crime Podcast

Barry J. Maguire

Drama, Whitey, Boston, Boston True Crime, True Crime, South Boston, Charlestown, Fiction, Roxbury, Dorchester

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Send us a text In 1978 Boston was quite a different place. Organized crime had very little fear of the police or FBI, mostly because local gangsters had them on the payroll. On June 28, 1978 five bodies were discovered in the dank and dark basement of Blackfriars Pub. The bar was a constant hangout for both Italian and Irish organized crime. Investigators found $15,000 dollars in an unlocked safe, significant amounts of cocaine and marijuana were also present. Was this an organized crime hit ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Boston Confidential, Bean Towns True Crime Podcast.
0:11.7	Boston is a great city, but there's more to it than the Freedom Trail in Fenway Park.
0:16.7	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.
0:26.1	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.
0:39.3	If you need anything in terms of investigative services, feel free to contact me at Impact.
0:44.3	If I can't help you personally, I'll certainly direct you to the right person or agency.
0:49.3	Hey everybody, welcome back to Boston Confidential.
0:53.3	I just want to do some housekeeping stuff as I usually do during the beginning in the show. We're getting a huge response from our episode on the Kimberly Ray Haber case. And it was a brutal case. Tough to get through. It really was. They really savage that poor woman for no reason.
1:12.4	And I got a few emails that I was kind of hard on the perpetrators advocating for no parole for
1:20.1	these people. Go through the details of that case. And I know the perpetrators were kids,
1:26.6	basically. Teenagers, some were juveniles, some were adults, but damn, I mean, they don't deserve parole.
1:34.7	How do you look at that case and say, yeah, you should go walk among free people?
1:39.6	It's crazy.
1:40.8	I stick to my guns on it.
1:42.3	That should have been a death penalty case.
2:03.4	They savage that poor woman, one after another, and they knew what was going to happen. The whole case is like a sociological case study. The victim was a drug addict and prostitute, and the kids were from an inner-city housing project. So you could delve into the lives of all of these people. And I think there'd be a cornucopia of dysfunction
2:08.6	and all of them. But the level of depravity that happened, and it seems to happen when young
2:16.0	men get together and there's alcohol. And there was a criminal
2:20.1	element to that group there, their monica, they're a street gang, right? The Franklin Field Pistons.
2:27.3	I also got some emails saying that Franklin Field is not as bad as it was in the 1990s.
2:35.5	I don't know if I buy that.
2:37.9	I think in 2020, five people were shot during a party during our pandemic here.
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