He committed his first murder at 15 years old, ending the life of an innocent shopkeeper as he and

his buddies made their way around Lawrence, Massachusetts, holding up convenience

stores for the thrill of it. His lawyer would later plead for mercy on the accused

teenage killer but that mercy would have unintended consequences not so far in

the future.

George Nassar is a two-time convicted killer. Yes, but some people believe this man who started his crime streak as a young teen might also be responsible for some 13

or more killings around Boston in the 1960s too.

His association with the man actually accused of those additional crimes only deepens the suspicion.

I'm Kylie Lowe and these are the stories of Dominic Carmel and Ervin Hilton, as well as the crimes of

George Nassar on Dark Down East. The Mrs Victoria Borisek didn't have time for the three young hooligans who came into her grocery store, one wielding a pistol.

This is a stick up, they barked.

They'd startled her, and she'd screamed in response, but one look at the trio left her doubting

they were serious about the threats they cast her way.

After the initial shock, Victoria regained her wits. Thinking it was all just a prank, she grabbed a broom and chased

the boys out to the street. Just 20 minutes later, though, a second stick-up in the same part of town had a much different result.

It was 8 p.m. on April 15th, 1948 and 62-year-old Dominic Carmel was working alone at his shop at 99 Park Street in Lawrence, Massachusetts,

when three boys came in and ordered a few sodas.

They looked to be about 18 and 20 years old and one was wearing a trench coat a bit overdressed in the mid-April weather but not terribly unusual

Dominic was an immigrant, born in Lithuania in 1886.

Though the pieces of Dominic's story are all but lost in the news coverage of his death,

I found one entry on a genealogy database that

revealed a few small details about him. He and his wife Mary had four children,

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