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He Killed for the FBI: The Rifleman's Secret Buried Bodies Revealed

He Killed for the FBI: The Rifleman's Secret Buried Bodies Revealed

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He Killed for the FBI: The Rifleman's Secret Buried Bodies Revealed

The FBI registered a top-echelon informant who received Silver and Bronze Stars, and for thirty years that informant allegedly killed while the bureau looked away-bodies buried, agents promoted, and a parole date set to May 4, 2218. How did a decorated Korean War veteran become both a government asset and a suspected contract killer, and who paid the price for that protection?

In this episode, we tell the story of Stephen Joseph Flemmi from his birth in 1934 through his enlistment in 1951, his rise in Boston crime circles, and the FBI relationship that prosecutors say enabled years of violence. Was the arrangement an explicit quid pro quo that allowed murders to go unprosecuted, and what evidence surfaced when grand juries finally moved?

Person: Stephen Joseph Flemmi
Date: born June 9, 1934
Location: Roxbury, Boston
Event: indicted by a grand jury by September 1969
Case: codename "Jack from South Boston" registered as a Top Echelon informant

- Flemmi enlisted in 1951 and completed two tours with the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team, returning in 1955 with a Silver Star and a Bronze Star.
- FBI agent H. Paul Rico identified Flemmi by the mid-1960s and registered him as a Top Echelon informant with a handler also named Dennis Condon.
- On October 20, 1965, Donald McLaughlin was shot on a public bus in West Roxbury and did not survive; Flemmi and Frank Salemme are alleged to have been the shooters.
- In January 1967 Flemmi and Salemme killed Walter and William "Wimpy" Bennett and buried their bodies in Hopkinton; Billy Bennett was found dead on December 22, 1967.
- By September 1969 a grand jury had enough to indict Flemmi for the Bennett murders and the Everett car-bombing of attorney John E. Fitzgerald (January 30, 1968), who survived but lost his lower right leg.

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