Officer Jack Maguire-Shot by a paroled criminal, who had been given three life sentences

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

🗓️ 7 March 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Send us a text Woburn Massachusetts, Police officer Jack Maguire answered a radio call for an armed robbery at Kohl's the day after Christmas 2010. Jack was forced to engage an armed robber. He heroically did what was necessary, however Jack was struck four times in the chest and succumbed to his wounds a short time later. The career felon was removed from the earth as a result of his idiotic choices. Patrolman Maguire had served for 34 years and was set to retire in six months. An inve...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Boston Confidential, Bean Towns True Crime podcast.
0:11.4	Boston is a great city, but there's more to it than the Freedom Trail in Fenway Park.
0:16.6	There's a startling underbelly to the city, and Boston Confidential will take you on a guided tour
0:21.4	of the hub of the universe, Boston, Massachusetts.
0:25.8	Hey, everybody, welcome back to Boston Confidential.
0:28.7	My name's Barry McGuire, and I'm your host.
0:31.3	I'm a 20-year private investigator on the streets of Boston, and I help run a company called
0:36.4	Impact Due Diligence Investigations.
0:39.5	If you need anything in terms of investigative services, feel free to contact me at Impact.
0:45.4	If I can't help you personally, I'll certainly direct you to the right person or agency.
0:50.4	All right, guys, before we get too far into the podcast, I want to try a little experiment.
0:55.0	I'm going to give you a set of facts, and you gauge how much prison time you should get.
0:59.9	All right, it's 1976.
1:02.2	You've just been in prison for a string of armed robberies.
1:06.3	You get to 1985, and you're out on a one-day furlough.
1:11.5	Yes, Massachusetts in the 80s had furloughs for felons.
1:16.0	So you're out on a one-day furlough.
1:18.2	You decide not to come back.
1:20.4	I mean, you got stuff to do and you're going to do it.
1:23.3	So you decide to pull five-arm robberies while you're out on furlough.
1:29.1	And while you're committing these armed robberies, one of which was in downtown Boston,
1:34.4	you decide to shoot a security guard in the chest.
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