Danny Croteau 13-This case resembles a Law and Order episode, but the horror was real

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

🗓️ 30 May 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Send us a text In 1972 the Croteau family had a traditionally large Catholic family, the five sons were alter boys. Father Richard Lavigne was the parish priest. Dan threatened to reveal that Lavigne was suppling him with alcohol and molesting him. Shortly thereafter, Dan was found floating in the Chicopee River in Springfield, Massachusetts. Father Lavigne was an immediate suspect, Dan's brothers admitted that Father Lavigne was also molesting them and others. State Police invest...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Boston Confidential, Beantown's True Crime podcast.
0:11.7	Boston is a great city, but there's more to it than the Freedom Trail in Fenway Park.
0:16.9	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.
0:39.5	If you need anything in terms of investigative services, feel free to contact me at Impact.
0:45.1	If I can't help you personally, I'll certainly direct you to the right person or agency.
0:50.5	Just wanted to touch base on our last episode for Sean Olett out of Canton, Massachusetts.
0:57.0	We got a tremendous response on this case, and I knew we would.
1:00.0	This case is still very well known in Massachusetts, and in probably most of the country,
1:07.0	it was just a horrific act of violence by somebody so young.
1:11.7	And then when you saw the assailant in court, he was so angry and pissed off.
1:17.7	Man, Rod Matthews, I don't know if you guys had a chance to look him up online, but I looked at him again on YouTube.
1:26.5	Man, is that cat intense when he was a young kid?
1:29.9	So I got multiple questions on my email, and that's probably the best way to get a hold of me.
1:34.8	Barry at Boston Confidential.net, if you need to. I got a few emails, anyway, asking why I was so
1:43.0	confident that Rod Matthews would get parole in the near
1:47.2	future.
1:48.1	I think it's every five or six years, and I think the last one was 2007.
1:53.7	And so it's right around this time, this year or next.
1:56.4	I think this guy will be back up for parole.
1:59.2	And this time will get it.
2:00.3	This will be his third shot at
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