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Send a text Kimberly had a host of issues, crack cocaine chief among them. She was trying to get her life in order, so her seven year old child could have a future. She was walking with a friend Halloween night, when a pack of gang members ran them both down and beat them with a tree branch, they were robbed of one dollar and then Kimberly suffered what can only be described as nazi level torture....

Send a text A heartbreaking story from 1996. Jesus wanted a new bike in the worst way. He had a girl's pink bike, with flat tires. In the world of six year old boys, this problem needed to be solved. A neighbor strolled past with a cool boy's bike, a lucky break, or something else? Jesus walked off with this man, after he said that Jesus could have the cool new bike, he was never seen ag...

Send a text This case is one of a handful of cases that changed how police view street level victims of violent crime. Robin Benedict's fall from a normal life to a prostitute in Boston's combat zone, the city's red light district, was very quick. William Douglas was straight out of central casting for a nerdy professor. The balding, paunchy professor, fell in love with beautiful Ro...

Send a text Pam Smart was highly educated with a handsome new husband and a career many would envy. She manipulated a fifteen year old boy into thinking she loved him. Naturally though there was only one obstacle. Pam's husband Greg. Pam asked  young Billy to kill her husband and in typical teenage fashion, Billy told half of his social circle. Pam went to a school board meeting, but left her...

Send a text A case that defies logic.  A 20 month old baby disappears from her dad's house. The investigation revealed that there were no signs of break in, The police bluntly say that they have not received the whole truth in this case. Three adults were home in a tiny cottage. Justin DiPietro, Ayla's dad was present, his sister and Justin's girlfriend, Courtney Roberts were also p...

Send a text In July 1973 Susan Petz and her boyfriend Daniel Porter wanted to beat the heat in Boston and explore the expansive Adirondack Mountains in New York. Susan was due to finish her journalism degree at Boston University in the fall. Daniel and some partners started a growing political polling company and had connections to the Kennedy campaign in Boston. The couple somehow stumbled upon R...

Send a text Amy at 14, fell in love with a monster. Jamie Fuller 16, told his friends that he was going to kill Amy.  His friends didn't prevent the murder they assisted in it.  A brutal and senseless crime, Jamie Fuller and his friends didn't care, In fact they laughed about it, stating as they were deposing of Amy's body, "It sucks to be you Amy".  This callous bastard w...

Send a text Albert DeSalvo was forced to watch his mother have her fingers broken one at a time. His father beat his children frequently and had prostitutes at the house.  Albert never had a chance and he transferred his violence to female victims. Albert never served a day for the strangler murders, he was convicted of a string of rapes in the area. Desalvo was a stone killer and Boston would suf...

Send a text A severely abused child, raised in the depths of the great depression grows into a depraved sadist, that terrorized Boston in the early 1960's. The Boston Police were nowhere near finding the Boston Strangler, until he confessed.  A sting of rapes conducted prior to the thirteen murders should have tripped Albert DeSalvo up, however his murderous rampage would not be prevented. Th...

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 The Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist Part 2- After the "Inside Man" was taken care of,  the caper was a burglar's dream.  Did the robbers in this heist, ever make a dime on the 500,000,000 robbery? It seems like the motive was freeing a co-conspirator from jail, rather than typical greed. But, things go violently wrong in a distinctively Boston manner. The FBI claims this...

Send a text The amounts of money in this heist are staggering. Five hundred million in art stolen, a ten million dollar reward. St. Patricks Day 1990, the famous Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is robbed of 13 pieces of art. Some of the most famous and valuable works by the great masters were stolen. "The Storm of the Sea of Galilee" by Rembrandt and "The Concert" by Vermeer we...

Send a text In August 1962 the U.S.Postal Service wanted to save money on armored car services. Instead, they had a truck driver and one guard transport money, in mail trucks from Cape Cod post offices, to the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston. What could go wrong? It took local criminals about three weeks to rob this truck of millions. The media coverage was intense and the government sent postal in...

Send a text As the internet was taking off, Michael McDermott would seemingly be in a great position for success. He was a computer genius and was writing software code for a leading technology company, Edgewater Technologies, located in what has been described as Boston's Silicon Valley, Route 128, the technology belt. The IRS and a car repo company were breathing down his neck and Mike suff...

Send a text In 1978 Boston was quite a different place. Organized crime had very little fear of the police or FBI, mostly because local gangsters had them on the payroll. On June 28, 1978 five bodies were discovered in the dank and dark basement of Blackfriars Pub. The bar was a constant hangout for both Italian and Irish organized crime. Investigators found $15,000 dollars in an unlocked safe, si...

Send a text Kimberly had a host of issues, crack cocaine chief among them. She was trying to get her life in order, so her seven year old child could have a future. She was walking with a friend Halloween night, when a pack of gang members ran them both down and beat them with a tree branch, they were robbed of one dollar and then Kimberly suffered what can only be described as nazi level torture....

Send a text 1997-Charles Jaynes is likely the most infamous murderer in modern Massachusetts history.  Jaynes and his codefendant Sal Sicari groomed ten year old Jeffery Curley. The duo then murdered the child and defiled his body multiple times. DNA and a host of other evidence ties both defendants to a throughly heinous crime.  Massachusetts came one vote shy of restoring the death penalty, that...

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 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 reca...

Send a text (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 testi...

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 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 Hundreds were trapped inside the Station, a Rhode Island roadhouse bar, hosting a fading rock band. The night's draw "Great White" a hair band from the eighties, took the stage. The band set off pyrotechnics  inside the wood framed bar. A local cameraman filmed the event. It took him 72 seconds to exit the bar, few made it out after him. The acoustic foam on the ceiling...

Send a text Lisa's body was discovered on Easter Sunday 1992. She had been abducted from her second job as a clerk at a gift shop. The police had accurately ascertained that Lisa was abducted, however the case soon went cold. A woman provided the name of her ex-husband, whom she believed was connected to the homicide, police dismissed her accusations, as the ravings of a scorned wife with an...

Send a text Amy's killer had struck in a similar manner less than a year prior. Alemany had actually left his ID (wallet) on top of an unconscious victim. Both the victim and a passerby gave accurate physical descriptions, why wasn't Alemany arrested and charged with this brutal assault? He would likely have not met bail conditions and would have been held awaiting trial, when Amy's...