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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

ROGUE MOBSTER-Mark Silverman and Scott Deitche

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Dan Zupansky

True Crime, News Commentary, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2012

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

When the infamous gangster Whitey Bulger went on the lam in 1995, the streets of Boston became a war zone between the Mafia and the renegades, with the Winter Hill Gang looking on. Rogue Mobster: The Untold Story of Mark Silverman and the New England Mafia chronicles the inside story of the Boston mob wars of the 1990’s when over two dozen gangsters were killed in a vicious war for control of the Boston underworld. Rogue Mobster is told in the words of Mark Silverman, an outsider from Medford who got inside the mob and became an integral part of the ensuing war. His account is the first-ever inside glimpse into what went on at the street level, why people were killed, and what the stakes were. Silverman grew up in the shadow of Whitey Bulger, Howie Winter, Raymond Patriarca and Jerry Anguilo, bosses of Boston’s most infamous crime families. With a Jewish last name, his opportunities should have been limited in Boston’s Irish/Italian underworld, but he moved up quickly, gaining acceptance across the board. Silverman was ‘made’ in the Patriarca Family as a reward for infiltrating a renegade mob faction backed by a New York family. The book begins with a unique history of the Boston gangland scene and takes the reader up to the late 1980’s,Silverman recounts the shifting alliances and friendships that were torn apart as the various mob factions battled for control of the Boston underworld through the early 2000’s. Rogue Mobster is a firsthand account of the violent Boston mob wars of the 1990s, when bodies were piling up across New England and Mark Silverman was walking a tightrope between Winter Hill and the Mafia. ROGUE MOBSTER-Mark Silverman and Scott Deitche

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Locke Toth, radio.

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You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in true crime history

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and the authors that have written about them.

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Gacy, Bundy, Domer, The Night Stalker, BTK, every week, another fascinating author

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talking about the most shocking and infamous killers in true crime history.

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True Murder, with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufansky.

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Good evening.

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This is your host, Dan Zufansky, for the program True Murder, the most shocking killers

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in true crime history and the authors that have written about them.

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When the infamous gangster, Whitey Bulger, went on the Lamb in 1995, the streets of Boston

1:02.7

became a war zone between the mafia and the renegades with the Winter Hill gang looking

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on.

1:08.2

Rogue mobster, the untold story of Mark Silverman in the New England Mafia, chronicles the

1:13.8

inside story of the Boston mob wars of the 1990s, when over two dozen gangsters were killed

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in a vicious war for control of the Boston underworld.

1:23.4

Rogue mobster is told in the world of Mark Silverman, an outsider from Medford, who got

1:28.6

inside the mob and became an integral part of the ensuing war.

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His account is the first ever inside glimpse into what went on at the street level, why

1:38.8

people were killed and what the stakes really were.

1:42.2

Silverman grew up in the shadow of Whitey Bulger, Howie Winter, Raymond Patriarcha, and Jerry

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