Finger = 10 grams of heroin; Paperchaser = sells a gram for $100. Drugs Inc s5e10: Boston Benzo Buzz, 2014
There’s a deadly new drug trend that's hit the streets of Boston – Benzos. ibid.
Boston Massachusetts: home to a bumper crop of stoned students, and marijuana is their drug of choice, thanks to a captive market and recently relaxed possession laws. Drugs Inc s7e18: Boston Weed Party, National Geographic 2015
In 2009 Massachusetts decriminalised possession for small amounts of marijuana. ibid.
In Boston two people may not kiss in front of a church. Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! 2006
You don’t understand, we’re taking the fucking liquor store. Whitey: United States of America v James J Bulger, Bulger to owner to new liquor store, CNN 2014
After 16 years the FBI finally has its man. Boston mob boss James Whitey Bulger was captured in southern California. ibid. news
A man so dangerous he joined Osama bin Laden at the top of the FBI’s most wanted list. ibid.
Bulger routinely met with FBI agent John Connolly and gave him information. ibid. court transcript
Weeks was one of the government’s star witnesses. ibid. news
Everybody can be corrupted. ibid. Weeks
19 alleged murder victims. ibid. news
‘Today the nation’s oldest marathon will be run for the 117th time. Some 27,000 runners from all over the world are expected to run Boston this year.’ Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing, morning news, HBO 2016
‘Oh my God. My God. We’ve had an explosion on the marathon course. People on the finish line. Two explosions went off. One after the other.’ ibid. rozzer
‘Two devices. Two hundred yards apart. That’s a big crime scene.’ ibid. FBI agent
‘Someone beside me said he saw a red flash. Others close by told me they felt the spray of what they thought were shards of shrapnel. My ears were ringing from the blast, my eyes stinging from the smoke. ibid.
Time felt like it had slowed down – the disorientation, the confusion, the strange silence stealing my breath and delaying my ability to comprehend’. ibid. newspaper report
‘Becomes known to us as White Hat; we expand out that triage of analysis and we find Black Cap also carrying a backpack.’ ibid. investigator
Boston police and the FBI combed through 120,000 photographs and almost 13,000 video clips … These terrorists were home-grown. Breaking History: New Age of Terror II, 2017
‘All of a sudden there was some sort of explosion. I looked down to the left; you could see a plume of smoke at the finish line … I took probably about two steps then I saw the two flashes of white light at my feet. I could feel myself being propelled … I instantly saw a severed foot in front of my left leg on the ground; it had a little white sock on it … I then instantly knew that was my foot that was dangling …’ Days that Shaped America s1e2: Boston Bombing, Roseann Sdoia, History 2018
‘It was surreal; it looked like a war zone.’ ibid. rozzer William Evans
‘We had the video, now we just needed to identify who they are.’ ibid.
In June last year I got a tip-off from a reliable source promising to take me on a journey to recover painting stolen from the world’s biggest art theft, works that so far have been missing for thirty years. Thirteen works of art including three Rembrandts and a Vermeer were stolen. Their value is now estimated at around $1 billion. The Billion Dollar Art Hunt, John Wilson reporting, BBC 2020
Does a violent Irish gangsta hold the solution to a thirty-year mystery? ibid.
Boston, St Patrick’s Day 1990 when two men approach the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum, the finest in Boston, just after midnight … The two thieves in Boston stayed allegedly 81 minutes to chose their pieces. ibid.
We’ve got to keep going until this Boston business is done. Then we rest. Peaky Blinders s6e2: Black Shirt ***** BBC 2022