Gary Lee Sampson-Tried to turn himself into the FBI, He went on to kill three in 2001

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

🗓️ 2 May 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Send us a text Gary Lee Sampson seemed straight out of central casting for a stereotypical drifter. Gary may have been the world's worst criminal. He escaped prison, as a juvenile, but that was likely his primary criminal achievement. Gary Lee Sampson stained everyone he encountered, alcohol simply turned him into a fiend. He robbed several banks in the Carolina's, with the police on his trail, he drove to Abington, Massachusetts. Upon arrival he called the Boston field office of the FB...

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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.
0:16.9	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.
0:39.8	If you need anything in terms of investigative services, feel free to contact me at Impact.
0:45.7	If I can't help you personally, I'll certainly direct you to the right person or agency.
0:51.5	Hey guys, jump back into the Wayback Machine with me today.
0:55.0	We got to go back 20 years to the year 2001.
0:59.9	Today we're going to cover the case of Gary Lee Sampson out of Massachusetts.
1:04.1	I guess he was all over Massachusetts in New Hampshire, but it's a disturbing case.
1:08.5	Most people probably remember it.
1:10.2	Gary Lee Sampson was a drifter.
1:13.0	That's how he was referred to in the press,
1:15.3	who went on a murderous,
1:16.9	and I mean a murderous crime spree throughout Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
1:23.0	Part of the story is so horrendous
1:25.3	is because it never should have happened. Gary Lee Sampson called the FBI
1:31.3	from Abington, Massachusetts, and he wanted to turn himself in, and the FBI somehow ends up hanging up
1:39.7	on this guy. Gary Lee Sampson waited there for hours waiting for an FBI agent to come pick him up.
1:46.5	He had been involved in a string of bank robberies down south, and he wanted to get sobered up
1:52.5	and turn himself in. He waited there for hours waiting for law enforcement to pick him up.
1:58.4	This is such a sad case. This felon tried to turn himself into the Boston
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