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, let's get to it. Just a little bit of housekeeping stuff as we usually do

at the beginning of each episode. We had a nice response for this replay that we ran last week.

Melanie Melanson, man, this case is always stuck with me. A freshman in high school goes to a party with older kids, never comes home.

And one of the things that sticks with me about that case, so tragic, people know about it.

Like, there's at least four people who know what happened here. One of them, Gene Bertini,

was arrested after that as an adult in 2011, I believe, for armed robbery of the gas station up in the Lowell area.

And it was a pretty vicious armed robbery.

I think he used a knife.

And he threatened people with this knife and used violence

against at least two people. And the police caught up to him. He's not the brightest bulb.

And when they did, he wouldn't give his DNA. And the cops, you know, this kid is a suspect

and a homicide and people in that area know that.

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