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Send us a text John comes of age during the Irish gang war and was soon a full time gangster. John was living the life, he was making money and his status in the underworld was rising. He mostly stayed neutral in the Irish war, but he was running with Joe "The Animal" Barboza and Jimmy "The Bear" Flemmi. These two were simply killing machines and that continued unabated. John committed his first of many murders at age twenty-four. He was fully manipulated by Stevie Flemmi into committing the hom...

Send us a text Ronald Brown was just sentenced to 100 years in prison, Yes, in Massachusetts. This crime story is utterly horrific. Mr. Brown is the reason of prisons. During Mr. Brown's latest rampage in 2016, he raped one roommate and sexually assaulted another. He forced one victim to shower to eliminate forensic evidence, during this time he insulted her ethnicity. Thankfully Mr. Brown is a dunce and left a prescription bottle with his name and address on the bottle. Brown's backpack contain...

Send us a text In 2002 Ally Zapp had a great date night on Boston Harbor. She went on a charity cruise and then a concert on the waterfront. She headed back toward Newport, Rhode Island. She stopped at a Burger King located in a rest stop on Route 24. Ally ran into a vile, convicted sex offender-rapist. Paul Leahy was 39yrs old and had 24 convictions on his record, including rape. Leahy cornered Ally in the ladies room and over nine minutes, he stabbed her countless times, as she begged, repeate...

Send us a text How do citizens defend against a powerful DA, who uses a "burner"account to direct judges and court administrators? You can't. As Turtrleboy prepared for trial it was revealed that District Attorney Micheal Morrissey, had been using an email that was not subject to public records law. The Karen Read defense team has also filed a motion to investigate this burner account, it's unlikely that the email, voicing the DA's displeasure in Chris Albert being denied a harassment order, was...

Send us a text n 1997 Sal Sicari lead his fellow pedophile Charles Jaynes to his neighbor in East Cambridge, Ma, ten year old Jeffery Curley. When Jeffery resisted their sexual advances, Jaynes placed a gas soaked rag over the child's mouth and used his obese body to suffocate Jeffery. The duo sexually defiled the boy's body and later dumped the body in coastal New Hampshire. The investigation quickly focuses on Sal Sicari, as he interjected himself into the investigation. Sicari confessed and i...

Send us a text Henri Gutierrez came to the United States illegally in 2014, he joined the brutal gang MS 13 and was arrested a short time later for carrying large knives, several times, his deportation would have saved two lives, why was he allowed to remain? Gutierrez went on to brutally murder two immigrants and terrorized others. Federal authorities believed that Henri was not a member of MS 13, despite several tattoos indicating he was deeply involved in the gang, one tattoo simply stated MS...

Send us a text What was going on in the Saco, Maine area in the late 90's? 15 yr old Ashley Ouellette, was found strangled and placed on the center line of a busy roadway in the early morning hours of February 9, 1999. Tony Torres went missing less than three months later. One individual connected both cases. Just prior to Tony's disappearance, he had bluntly told his parents that he knew who had killed his friend Ashley. The connection between the two cases is a shady individual named Jayson "...

Send us a text 25 years have past since 15yr old Ashley Ouellette, told mom she was at a girlfriend's sleep over, she lied, there was in fact a party. Ashley was missing a boy she had an unhealthy relationship with, Steve Sanborn. She made her way to his house, but he apparently wasn't interested, his brother had been at the party and they likely reunited at the house, post party. Steve claims to have never seen, Ashley that night, but his brother Dan Sanborn, certainly did. Dan was likely the l...

Send us a text In one of the most heart wrenching stories in New England crime history, in 1976 Andy Puglisi, went to a neighborhood pool, located in Lawerence, Massachusetts and was never heard from again. A man had been taking Polaroid pictures of kids at the pool for several weeks. Andy had given his mother one. Andy disappeared and despite thousands searching, he was not found. Two weeks later, a notorious pedophile, Wayne Chapman was arrested in Waterloo, NY. He possessed several children's...

Send us a text Phillip Chism, committed one of the most heinous crimes in Massachusetts history. He raped and brutally murdered his high school teacher Colleen Ritzer in picturesque Danvers, Massachusetts. Chism's defense claims the exclusion of brain scan evidence at trial, is grounds for appeal. Chism is a Ted Bundy level sexual predator and regardless, this guy will be released in his 50's. If his appeal is successful, he'll be out at 39. Do you want your daughter sitting next to this guy on ...

Send us a text The innocent men the FBI had knowingly imprisoned began getting out of jail in 1997, as this heinous story unraveled. Greco and Tamelo died in prison. H.Paul Rico retired from the FBI and became head of security for World Jai Lai, a gaming business, where he had the distinction of being the first FBI agent to provide information to organized crime that facilitated a homicide. The Winter Hill Gang had placed Rico as head of security to protect a skimming operation that netted abou...

Send us a text Robert Devine rose through the ranks at the Stoughton Police Department, he re-invigorated the Police Explorers program, the program, soon became a breeding ground for sexual abuse, that ensnared Sandra Birchmore. The program became an actual cornucopia of abuse. Documents suggest that Devine, Off. Matt Farwell, and his twin brother Off. William Farwell, all had sex with Sandra Birchmore at varying times and places, despite loving families at home. Matt Farwell has been charged wi...

Send us a text Apparently there are no competent homicide prosecutors in Norfolk's County's District Attorney's office! Elected DA Mike Morrissey has inexplicably hired a "Special Prosecutor" to retry Karen Read for 2nd degree murder. Are there no prosecutors willing to take this S-sandwich of a case? No one is prepared to commit career suicide perhaps? There is NO confidence in Adam Lally and his second chair. Hank Brennan, Whitey Bulger's defense attorney has been selected to retry Karen Read,...

Send us a text Sandra Birchmore’s homicide is a case for the ages in Metro Boston. She had a difficult life growing up, suffering the death of two close relatives in rapid succession. Sandra’s mother encouraged her to join the Stoughton Police Department Explorers program. The sexual grooming process allegedly began almost immediately. The next step in the process was physical, Patrol Officer Matthew Farwell’s texts to Sandra have been released with his indictment for her homicide. They are simp...

Send us a text This tale of FBI corruption begins in the 1960's. H.Paul Rico was the FBI catalyst in this decades long endeavor. Infamous FBI agent John Connolly of Whitey Bulger infamy, was mentored by Agent Rico. H.Paul Rico may have been the most corrupt FBI agent in history. He was responsible for sending several men to prison for a crime the FBI, knew that two prized informants committed. Two men Henry Tameleo and Luis Greco died in prison, with the FBI's full knowledge of their innocen...

Send us a text The 1994 Movie Natural Born Killers, spurred many real life nightmares. Michael Freeman 21, of leafy Avon, Massachusetts, was apparently easily influenced. He recruited two dim witted friends Leonard Stanely 21, of Easton,Ma. and Patrick Morse 19, of Middleboro for murder. The mayberry-like town of Avon, would never be the same. Natural born killer or simple Shitbird? Those choices seem to sum up Michael Freeman of Avon, Massachusetts, he was never any good, not really. The good c...

Send us a Text Message. One of the saddest cases in recent memory. Sandra Birchmore joined the Stoughton, Mass police explorers program at 13-14. Sandra's family had been looking for a positive male role model, for thirteen year old Sandra. She had a difficult home life and the family thought they had found, that role model, with the leader of the explorers program. Sgt. William Devine had been tasked with making the program work for local kids. Reportedly, the explorers went off the rails quick...

Send us a Text Message. (REPLAY) 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 testimon...

Send us a Text Message. Several jurors contacted the defense and prosecution with basically the same story. The jury had voted UNANIMOUSLY to acquit on the murder and leaving the scene of an accident, charges. Somehow that intent did not make it to the jury form? Judge bee did not poll the jury, denied the defense an opportunity to do so. 4-5 jurors have now come forward. The real question is how did this fumble happen? the Commonwealth and the Judge are strangely incurious. This specfic issue i...

Send us a Text Message. Keith Luke 22, appeared to be a somewhat conflicted white supremacist, he claimed to have committed this murderous act over racial animosity, however in the days before this madness, he tried, persistently to date at least two women of color. His racism seemed to be a symptom of him being an "incel", involuntary celibate. He had approached three women at a Planet Fitness in Brockton and basically asked to be in an immediate relationship with Selma Goncalves, she naturally...

Send us a Text Message. Don't miss this interview! Boston Confidential was fortunate enough to snag an interview with Jess Machado, of the Fall River Reporter. We cover a great deal of the Karen Read Trial. Jess, was in the court room most days and was up close and personal, watching jurors and their reactions to testimony. She also discusses the oddest harassment, that occurred outside the courthouse. Jess's assailant is a well know, chump, that haunts the area outside the court. A strange stor...

Send us a Text Message. Local authorities believe that Attorney Gary Zerola, raped and or sexually assaulted more than 20 women, since the 1990's. Zerola, was just convicted of rape and burglary, he was sentenced to 5-10 years in prison. This sentence comes on the heels of him, beating two separate rape trials, previously. Zerola's M.O. Gary flirts with pretty, young girls ply's them with tremendous amounts of alcohol. He then implies to the women, "It is time to pay him back" The story is as ol...

Send us a Text Message. The HBO film Trial 4, is a virtual hagiography for Sean Ellis. The HBO-Netflix documentary is so slanted in favor of Sean Ellis it is difficult to digest. In order to believe Sean Ellis is innocent, you'd have to believe that his uncle, best friend, and girlfriend were (are) lying. To our knowledge none of these witnesses, that tied Ellis directly to the brutal 1993, homicide recanted their testimony, why? Sean Ellis's co-defendant told the police Sean Ellis shot Det. Mul...

Send us a Text Message. A shocking outcome for the Karen Read Trial, A hung jury! How could this happen?There are many issues to investigate, what was the split among jurors? What more would it have taken for a unanimous verdict? The sad reality is that the system is broken, when an obviously corrupted case made it to the jury. This verdict is a real head scratcher. Make NO mistake the State would do this same thing to you and yours! TB Daily News- https://bit.ly/45XP1xv New Yorker - https://bit...