John Martorano Part 2-John commits his first murder at 24, he was manipulated by Stevie Flemmi

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

🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Send us a text John comes of age during the Irish gang war and was soon a full time gangster. John was living the life, he was making money and his status in the underworld was rising. He mostly stayed neutral in the Irish war, but he was running with Joe "The Animal" Barboza and Jimmy "The Bear" Flemmi. These two were simply killing machines and that continued unabated. John committed his first of many murders at age twenty-four. He was fully manipulated by Stevie Flemmi into committing the ...

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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	Just a few housekeeping items that we usually handle at the outset of every episode.
0:59.8	We got a great response from our first part in this series about John Monorano,
1:06.2	the hitman of choice, I guess, for the Winter Hill Gang.
1:10.6	Man, it's a bloody story. I think I gave you
1:13.3	the history of John Matarano and his parents, and somebody had written into the show asking why he
1:21.3	wasn't a made man of Lacoste. The thing was, you have to be full-blooded Italian and La Casano
1:30.8	has to be able to trace your roots back to Italy and John Monterano's mom was Irish so he wasn't
1:39.0	eligible for membership. Don't know if he would have took it if he could, but he did know a lot of Italian gangsters.
1:47.8	And to be quite frank, one of the reasons that Winter Hill lasted so long was because of
1:54.0	John Madarano. In town, as they called the Boston faction of La Casa Nostra was simply afraid of John
2:03.0	Madarano. He wasn't a bully, a swaggering bully like a lot of gangsters were, but as they said,
2:09.6	he was very capable, and that meant he'd kill you. So they didn't move against Winter Hill
2:15.0	because of John Monterano. If you killed John Monterano's partners, he was coming for you.
2:21.0	He would have come right to the office, you know, on Prince Street for the Anjulos, I think.
2:26.0	So they were afraid to cross John Monterano and went to hell.
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