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The Boston Mob Trials: Winter Hill Gang's Violent Rise and Fall | The Missing Archive
In this episode of The Missing Archive, host Jasmine Riley unravels the violent history of Boston’s Winter Hill Gang, tracing their brutal rise from a localized turf war to one of New England’s most powerful criminal organizations. This narrative explores the pivotal October 1961 murder of James "Buddy" McLean, which ignited Boston’s first Irish Gang War against the rival McLaughlin family. Listeners will discover how retaliatory violence, including the infamous Salisbury Beach incident and the subsequent assassinations of Georgie and Punchy McLaughlin, reshaped the criminal landscape of…
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