Sean Ellis Part 2 -Replay- The Netflix Series Trial 4 is a farce and that's being generous

Boston Confidential Beantown's True Crime Podcast

Barry J. Maguire

True Crime, Whitey, Roxbury, Boston True Crime, Drama, South Boston, Dorchester, Fiction, Charlestown, Boston

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Send a text In order to believe Sean Ellis is innocent, you'd have to believe, the Boston Police Forensic Unit, took Letia Walker's fingerprints at the courthouse and then proceeded to place a print on the gun that killed Det Mulligan. Did the technology to conduct this conspiracy exist in 1993? Does it even exist now? Letia Walker, Sean Ellis's girlfriend, went on to testify that Sean brought the guns into her house. Mrs. Walker had ample opportunity to recant her testimony, why hasn't...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Boston Confidential,
0:09.1	Themetown's True Crime podcast.
0:11.7	Boston is a great city, but there's more to it than the Freedom Trail in Fenway Park.
0:16.9	There's a startling underbelly to the city,
0:19.0	and Boston Confidential will take you on a guided tour of the hub of the universe, Boston, Massachusetts.
0:26.1	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.
0:39.5	If you need anything in terms of investigative services, feel free to contact me at Impact.
0:45.1	If I can't help you personally, I'll certainly direct you to the right person or agency.
0:50.5	All right, guys, welcome back to Boston Confidential.
0:53.7	This week we're covering part two of the Sean Ellis Trial 4 case.
0:59.1	We call it the trial four case because that's the name of the series on Netflix,
1:05.1	originally produced by HBO.
1:08.5	It's a docu-series on the murder of John Mulligan in 1993.
1:14.6	John Mulligan was a Boston police detective working a private paid detail overnight in a
1:21.8	Walgreens parking lot, and he was shot, brutally shot five times in the face as he slept.
1:29.1	And Terry Patterson and Sean Ellis were convicted as a joint venture homicide in this case.
1:36.6	But before we get back into the case, guys, just a few housekeeping things.
1:41.7	In my last episode, the first part of the Sean Ellis case, I predicted that cancel culture
1:47.2	would come for Boston Confidential.
1:50.5	It has in some capacity.
1:52.6	I'm getting an alarming number of emails saying that I'm racist for my view on this case.
2:00.6	I don't believe that's true. I'm trying to look at the
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