Melvin Reine Part 1-The Falmouth Fox, A string of murders and arsons on Cape Cod

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

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Send us a text This may be the strangest story you've never heard of. Melvin Reine was suspected in three homicides on scenic Cape Cod. He was also the local arsonist. He served 18 months in Walpole State Prison for a string of arsons in the late 60's. He vowed to never go back. The police were terrified of this guy, maybe because he lit the police chief's cruiser on fire and laughed in his face about it. Despite all of this Reine was granted lucrative trash hauling contracts for the To...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Boston Confidential, Bean Towns, True Crime Podcast.
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0:33.5	I'm a 20-year private investigator on the streets of Boston, and I help run a company called
0:38.6	Impact Due Diligence Investigations. If you need anything in terms of investigative services,
0:45.1	feel free to contact me at Impact. If I can't help you personally, I'll certainly direct you
0:50.4	to the right person or agency. All right, guys, let's get to it. I wanted to thank
0:55.5	everybody for their emails. I'm still getting a ton of emails on the Teresa Corley case out of
1:01.8	Bellingham, Massachusetts. And a lot of people are asking me about why I was so aggressive
1:07.9	with the police during this investigation when it was so very long ago.
1:13.1	And again, I have to tell you my comments stand.
1:16.2	They stand on their own.
1:17.4	They're backed up by facts.
1:18.9	That was one of the worst investigations I've ever seen.
1:21.7	So I won't be coming off that anytime soon.
1:25.3	But I do love to hear from everybody.
1:28.4	If you want to get a hold of me, my email is barry at bostonconfidential.net. Feel free to email me on anything and I'll
1:35.1	try to get back to you as soon as possible. But for today, I have one of the strangest stories I've ever
1:41.0	come across. And it's one of those things you can't believe you never heard
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