John Martorano Part 1- Boston's most feared gangster, he made problems disappear for the Winter Hill Gang

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

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Send us a text John Martorano confessed to twenty murders, while working as a founding member of the Winter Hill Gang. John was familiar with violence, he came of age in an entirely different Boston, he worked downtown and his bar was the center of crime in Boston's underworld for years. John was an unlikely candidate for gangsterism, he had two caring parents, that were well off financially. John just liked the nightlife and the action. John Martorano never suspected that his partners were F...

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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.
0:16.8	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.
0:26.4	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.
0:40.0	If you need anything in terms of investigative services, feel free to contact me at Impact.
0:45.9	If I can't help you personally, I'll certainly direct you to the right person or agency.
0:50.8	All right, guys, let's get to it.
0:53.0	Hey, guys, welcome back to Boston Confidential.
0:55.7	We had a great response from our last live episode on the Granby Girl.
1:01.9	She was identified as Patricia Ann Tucker after all that time in the woods.
1:09.4	It's just remarkable that they were able to identify her.
1:13.2	That company, Ostram, and I think there's a competitor in that industry, but Ostram seems
1:18.8	to be the market leader in this DNA search. They do this genealogical DNA where Ostram will take your sample, like whomever you're looking for
1:30.9	and submit it to these public DNA databases, people who are looking for relatives and heirs,
1:39.5	and just curious about their ethnicity and their history.
1:46.6	And it's really taken off.
1:48.5	The public really seems to like it.
1:53.4	But now these companies have this repository of DNA.
1:57.9	And Ostram will submit the sample from this person,
2:05.3	the Granby girl, who went missing years ago and they got a hit and they found a relative and then they tracked that relative back to Patricia's five-year-old son. It was totally
2:13.4	remarkable. And it seems as though the suspect in that case is the husband who ended up serving
2:21.2	time in prison and actually died in prison for rape and a host of other low life crimes but we
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