Welcome to Boston Confidential, Beantown's True Crime podcast.

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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, let's get to it.

Just some housekeeping stuff, as we usually do at the top of the show.

A good response from the Henry Bedad episode.

Several people had emailed me requesting that we cover that.

And this goes back, I don't know, all the way back to last year at any rate.

And I was a little reluctant

to do the story. As I said in the podcast, man, there's just so little evidence on it. I thought

the podcast would be about 15 minutes. I think it ended up being about 36 minutes or so. But man,

there's just so little physical evidence in that case. I do believe if the Henry

Bedard Merner happened today, it would be solved relatively quickly. What some of the emailers

had asked was, what do you actually think happened here? I think somebody in Henry's friend group,

direct friend group, asked to meet him for some reason,

and it would seem to be a pressing reason, because if you remember, Lieutenant Cassidy had seen

the kid crossing the street, and Cassidy says he seemed to be in a hurry. And then he walks past

the DPW yard back up to that Swampscott view, hangout, you know.

So what I think happened there, he was set to meet somebody for some reason.

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