(Replay) Melanie Melanson-Melanie was 14, when she went to a party with older kids, she was never seen again

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

🗓️ 18 September 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Send us a text Melanie was a typical high school freshman in 1989, she was looking forward to getting her braces off and whatever else life promised. She had an older boyfriend and this was a secret, because the older teen had a girlfriend. Melanie was invited to a late night party in the woods at a remote site where kids were known to gather. The police have seemingly narrowed the party down to the final guests, Melanie and her love interest, this is where stories diverge. At least two...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Boston Confidential, Beantown's True Crime podcast.
0:11.6	Boston is a great city, but there's more to it than the Freedom Trail in Fenway Park.
0:16.8	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.
0:26.3	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.
0:39.8	If you need anything in terms of investigative services, feel free to contact me at Impact.
0:45.8	If I can't help you personally, I'll certainly direct you to the right person or agency.
0:50.7	All right, guys, let's get to it.
0:53.3	I just wanted to do a little bit of housekeeping stuff, as we usually cover during the beginning of each episode.
1:00.0	We had a great response, a really great response, actually, to our four-part series on the FBI corruption in Boston. Generational corruption as it stands. What a lot of people don't
1:17.1	understand is that episode with H. Paul, Rico, Joe Salvadi, and all those guys, that started in
1:26.0	1965.
1:28.5	And we come all the way up.
1:30.4	I know I didn't take you up through the Mark Rosetti case.
1:33.5	Rosetti goes up until current times.
1:36.0	You know, I think the last time I heard mention of Mark Rosetti
1:40.0	and his 20-year-long occupation, basically, as a top echelon informant with the FBI.
1:50.3	And what had dawned on me when I was doing this research is Mark Rosetti's case and
1:56.6	Whitey Bulger, Stevie Flemm, and John Conley's case,
2:01.3	overlapped.
2:02.3	So they promised to fix their confidential informant system,
2:08.2	but never really did because Mark Rosetti was still on the street,
2:13.5	ratting out his friends and enemies,
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