Hello everybody.

Welcome to Boston Confidential, Boston's 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 dark side of the Athens of America. Buckle up because we're getting ready to go.

Hey everybody, thanks for tuning in to Boston Confidential. I just wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself and tell you a little bit about

what the podcast is going to be and how it's going to be structured.

First of all, I realize I have the world's worst Boston accent, but you're going to have to try to get through it.

It's definitely better than Lee and Otto DiCaprio's impression of a Boston accent in the movie The Departed.

All right, guys, a little bit about me.

My name's Barry McGuire.

I'm a 20-year private investigator.

I help run a company called Impact Due Diligence Investigations. We supply

in-depth background investigations to the financial services and business communities. We are also

engaged in litigation assistance for local and international law firms.

I'm also pretty proud to say that I've just published my first book, The Business

of Private Investigations, Tips and Tricks to Jumpstart Your Agency.

You can find it on Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble.

As you can tell from the accent, I am a true son of South Boston,

was born and raised in the neighborhood,

and spent approximately 30 years in the city before my wife kidnapped me to the suburbs, like most wives do.

The South Boston of today is not quite the

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