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Send a text Two factions of the Lusi clan, clashed in the North End the night before the shooting. A long simmering beef, pertaining to drug profits and neighborhood respect, came to a head inside a nintey-nine restaurant, at lunch time in Charlestown, Ma. Robert Lusi was known in the North End as a bully, however he was a made member of the mafia. He liked to use knives and threaten people. He wa...

Send a text John Odgren was 16 in 2007, he suffered from Asperger's syndrome and he did suffer some bullying and social isolation. Odgren's parents were fully involved in John's educational journey, they advocated for John and at times he appeared to be responding. But on January 19, 2007 John took a kitchen knife from home and into school. He waited in a bathroom and was apparently...

Send a text Brenda Lacombe was a fun loving, teenager, who just had a baby. She fell in love with her baby and was aiming to make herself into a great mother. She'd never get the chance. Brenda left her grandmother's apartment just before 1:00am on a Sunday-Monday morning in 1982. She is reported to have made and or received some phone calls from the apartment. She departed and was never...

Send a text Thomas Mortimer was a sales professional, his wife Laura was an economist in Boston. Money should not have been an issue, however Thomas was laid off and had been out of work for 18 months. Thomas and his wife lived with Laura's mother Ragna and the couple's two beautiful children in Winchester, Ma. Thomas had just found another executive level sales job, so things were looki...

Send a text S tation Nightclub Fire 2003 -Scott James wrote the definitive book on the Station Nightclub Fire, in West Warwick, Rhode Island. The book "Trial By Fire" takes the reader by the lapels and propels them trough the actual fire and the grisly aftermath. The author also sheds light on some inaccurate local reporting and political maneuvering, that was uniquely Rhode Island. So m...

Send a text Ruth Terry  was named as the Lady of the Dunes in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The  horrifying and mutilated remains were discovered by a teenage girl on Race Point beach in July 1974. She went unnamed for forty-eight years. Ruth Terry apparently had several aliases, as did her husband Guy Rockwell Muldavin. He never reported her missing and he was suspected in a double homicide in Sea...

Send a text Claus was never a warm and cuddly person, however his indifference to his wife's first insulin overdose and his open affair around Newport, raised suspicions, when Sunny suffered an almost identical overdose a year later. Sunny's biological son Alex, contacted a lawyer-Investigator, they discovered a black bag containing insulin vials and barbiturates, in Claus's closet....

Send a text Before the OJ Simpson trial, the Claus Von Bulow case was the trial of the century. It was the first nationally televised criminal trial. This case has it all wealth, sex and murder. This case provides a peek into the secretive lives of socialites. Sunny Von Bulow inherited over 200 million dollars at age three. She was a constant on the Manhattan and Newport society scene and her appa...

Send a text In 2003 women started disappearing in hardscrabble Woonsocket, Rhode Island. A mild mannered warehouse worker. The police were eventually tipped off by an anonymous caller, who's stated that the police needed to speak with the victim of a near fatal assault. The victim pointed them to a local man with no police record and appeared to be an upstanding citizen. His confession would...

Send a text Charles Ponzi was always one to take a short cut. Mr Ponzi hoodwinked his way to a Bank manager position in Montreal, he saw that the bank president was using new investment money to fund payments coming due. The problem was that the investors would take the money and run, not reinvest. Ponzi saw the flaw in this game and the bank soon collapsed. After a stint in a Canadian jail, then...

Send a text What caused a loving father and husband to violate the sacred trust given to a father and husband? That remains a true mystery, but Kenneth Seguin's actions are well documented. He had previously suffered through some depression and was fully assisted by his wife Maryann. The details surrounding this triple homicide are hard to fathom. Kenneth drugged his beautiful children and th...

Send a text In 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 investiga...

Send a text Assistant Attorney General Paul McLaughlin was a dedicated prosecutor who believed that he could help urban communities, through removing career criminals from the city's streets. Paul was ramping up a trial for a violent carjacking, where there was significant witness intimidation. Unbeknownst to Paul, a local gangbanger was stocking him, he had a gang member follow Paul McLaughl...

Send 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...

Send a text The FBI knew they had to record Gerry Angiulo and his brothers discussing mafia business in order to prove a RICO case. The north-end mob was bringing in $45,000 a week in gambling alone, the downfall was, from all the big mouths in the executive suite on Prince Street. The tapes were pure gold for the FBI and the media. As soon as the handcuffs went on the show was over. Gerry had gui...

Send a text Gerry brought hundreds of millions into the Mafia's coffers, this kept him safe, but Gerry's mouth almost got him killed…more than once. New England Godfather, Raymond Patriarca had to mediate on Gerry's behalf. Hitman Joe Barboza almost cost Gerry his freedom in a corrupt FBI investigation, but after that Gerry ushered in the most profitable period in Boston Mafia histo...

Send a text Gerry Angiulo and his brothers ruled the Boston mafia for generations. He was often stereotypical, He was loud and obnoxious, he was often cruel to the people who committed crimes for the family, calling them suckers. Gerry's big mouth was his Achilles heal and the FBI knew it. They installed an illegal wiretap at one of his bar's in the combat zone in the early 60's, th...

Send a text Jassy was escaping a cycle of domestic violence, but she was now free of her tormentor. She went out to a Boston Nightclub and fought with friends. Jassy was celebrating and appeared intoxicated. She tried to get into someone else's Uber. A "gentleman" was willing to drive her home and out of the freezing February night. Louis Coleman III is currently imprisoned for this...

Send a text Brianna craved independence and she was on her way to life goals she had set. She appeared to fall into a tough crowd that was involved in hard drugs. Some poor decisions led to some teenage strife. She departed her job late at night and her car was found the next day at an old landmark in the area. The police seemingly could not ascertain that her car, abandoned with doors open and it...

Send a text Terry Peder Rasmussen was labeled the "Chameleon Killer" an apt moniker. He lived in New Hampshire under the name Bob Evans. He worked first at a local general store in Allenstown, he is later suspected of killing four, including his own daughter, then placing the victims in two oil drums, at the general store. Rasmussen fled New Hampshire with a new girlfriend, she's ne...

Send a text This is one of New England's most enduring mysteries. The Bear Brook murders, AKA the Allenstown four. In 1985, A woman and a little girl were found decomposing in an oil drum, by an avid hunter. It would be an agonizing journey to identify the victims and pursue the perpetrator. In 1985 the case quickly went cold, in 2000 a cold case investigator went back to the forest in Allens...

Send a text Jennifer Dulos-A mother of five was in the process of divorcing her husband in 2018-19. He was a wealthy real estate developer. Jennifer dropped her kids off at their new school in New Canaan Ct. and was set to travel into NYC for two medical appointments. She never arrived for her doctor's appointments. Police believe that her husband broke into her home and laid in wait for her...

Send a text This saga is one of New England's most interesting and heartbreaking cases. In 2013, a wealthy real estate developer John Chakalos was murdered in his Connecticut home. The last person to see him alive was his twenty-two year old grandson, Nathan Carman, The next morning  Nathan either destroyed or disposed of his computer hard drive and his GPS unit, seemingly without explanation...

Send a text Donald Eugene Webb was a career criminal and ran with a crew of professional criminals, from Fall River, Massachusetts. He ran into Police Chief Greg Adams in Saxonburg, Pa. Webb ended up shooting and killing Adams, during a traffic stop. Webb suffered a crippling injury, but somehow made it back to Massachusetts. In this episode we speak with Author Maureen Boyle who wrote the book on...

Send a text This is one of Metro-Boston's most infamous murders. Richard Rosenthal was a successful financial analyst at John Hancock Insurance in Boston. He met Laura Jane at work and they later married. The couple appeared to be living the American dream. But inside the home was another story, friends at work would later report, seeing Laura Jane with black eyes on at least two separate occ...