Melvin Reine II-The madness continues, the Falmouth Police cover up for Melvin Reine

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

🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Send us a text In the second half of our series on the Falmouth Fox, we cover the disappearance another young man, Paul Alwardt. He was set to testify against Melvin Reine. The cops put the kid on the ferry to Martha's Vineyard, he never got off the boat. Paul was never seen again. We also cover the attempted murder of Falmouth police officer, John Busby. Officer Busby was shot in the face with a shot gun on his way to work. Busby identified Melvin Reine as the man who shot him, why was Melvi...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Boston Confidential, Bean Towns, True Crime Podcast.
0:11.0	Boston is a great city, but there's more to within the Freedom Trail in Fenway Park.
0:17.0	There's a start on underbelly to the city, and Boston Confidential will take you on a guided
0:21.7	tour of the dark side of the Athens of America, Boston, Massachusetts.
0:26.9	Hey everybody, welcome back to Boston Confidential.
0:31.0	My name's Barry McGuire, and I'm your host.
0:33.5	I'm a 20-year private investigator on the streets of Boston, and I help run a company called
0:38.7	Impact Due Diligence Investigations.
0:41.7	If you need anything in terms of investigative services, feel free to contact me at Impact.
0:47.6	If I can't help you personally, I'll certainly direct you to the right person or agency.
0:52.5	All right, guys, let's get to it.
0:56.0	This is part two of the Melvin Rainey episode, The Falmouth Fox, just to recap a little bit from the last episode.
1:03.4	In the late 1960s, Melvin Rainey was known as the local criminal, the local pain in the buttocks,
1:10.4	I guess you could say.
1:11.6	But he was more than that, really.
1:13.2	He was responsible for a string of arsons that plagued Falmouth, Massachusetts,
1:18.1	a seaside town on Cape Cod, probably, you know, seven, eight, nine arsons.
1:24.7	He eventually got arrested for it and sentenced the prison. He ended up doing about
1:30.3	18 months out of like a five or seven year sentence. He originally started his prison term in a
1:37.8	prison called Walpole, located in Walpole, Massachusetts. But at the time, it was Massachusetts maximum security prison,
1:47.5	and it was, I think I described it as a hellscape last time, and that may actually be underestimating it.
1:54.6	But once he got out of prison, he was discharged eventually from a prison farm, I believe, in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
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