Welcome to Boston Confidential, Bean Towns 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 hub of the universe, Boston, Massachusetts.

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.

If you need anything in terms of investigative services, feel free to contact me at Impact.

If I can't help you personally, I'll certainly direct you to the right person or agency.

All right, guys, excited to be back from vacation, had a week off. It was great.

I hit Old Cape Cod, Dennis Port in particular.

And we're on to our next one.

But I just wanted to do some housekeeping stuff.

We're getting a big response from our episode on the Phoebe Prince case.

That's the bullying case that ended in suicide in 2010. And I've gotten a lot of

emails on the case. And the recurring theme in these emails is that, yes, there is a correlation

between the Phoebe Prince case and the Michelle Carter case, definitely two bullying cases, but I think it just

goes to show you how difficult it is to get a conviction regarding somebody else's suicide.

Michelle Carter was convicted, but that conviction was overturned on appeal, and she's out of jail now.

And I think it was shaky ground where she was convicted at any rate, but she did some time in jail and she certainly deserved it.

Both of these cases, the Michelle Carter case and the Phoebe Prince case, have moved the ball

forward in terms of legislation regarding bullying.

And that's, I think, definitely a good thing.

First, it was the Phoebe Prince case where these kids were prosecuted.

That kind of showed the nation that this is no BS anymore.

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