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Thieves of Charlestown

The Shocking History of Boston's Most Notorious Neighborhood

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Buch | Softcover
2026
Hamilcar Publications (Verlag)
978-1-949590-89-0 (ISBN)
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According to the FBI, more
bank and armored-car robbers have come out of Charlestown, Massachusetts, than
any other one-square-mile area in the world. With these robberies also came
gangland violence and corruption. Fictionalized in the movie The Town featuring
Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner, this is the true story of Charlestown and
the thieves and gangsters who terrorized the community for decades.

On October 31, 1961,
Bernie McLaughlin got shot dead in broad daylight in front of a hundred
witnesses in the City Square section of Charlestown. Because of the ironclad code of silence in the Irish stronghold known as the “Green Square
Mile,” no witnesses came forward. The murder ignited a bloody war between the
McLaughlin Gang and Buddy McClean’s Winter Hill Gang that left more than sixty men
dead.

Three decades later, as
narcotics invaded Charlestown, and a concurrent Mob war raged between J. R.
Russo’s North End crew and that of Patriarca-family boss “Cadillac Frank” Salemme,
five thieves called the “No Name Gang” committed over a hundred heists across
New England that cemented the enclave’s infamy. Grippingly cinematic and raw, Thieves
of Charlestown delivers an unprecedented look at the real criminals who ruled
the streets of “The Town.”









 

Joe Bradley is a former gang-unit cop in Springfield, Massachusetts, with a Master's degree in criminal justice. He lives in Connecticut with his family.

Charlestown



Prologue: Arthur “Butchie” Doe Jr.



Chapter 1: The McLaughlin’s



Chapter 2: The Offer



Chapter 3: Buddy’s Battles



Chapter 4: The Mac Attack



Chapter 5: The Salisbury Assault



Chapter 6: The Car Bomb



Chapter 7: A Halloween Surprise



Chapter 8: The Fallout



Chapter 9: Winter Hill Gang



Chapter 10: Burying The Ox



Chapter 11: The Hit



Chapter 12: The Kill Team



Chapter 13: The Animal



Chapter 14: An Eye for an Eye



Chapter 15: Teddy the Thief



Chapter 16: Putting Down the Dog



Chapter 17: A Dish Best Served Cold



Chapter 18: George’s Last Bender



Chapter 19: The Butcher



Chapter 20: Beating Punchy to the Punch



Chapter 21: Painting the Town Red



Chapter 22: A Charlestown: IRA Thing



Chapter 23: The Charlestown 99 Massacre



Chapter 24: Two For Good Measure



Chapter 25: Raymond Patriarca Sr.



Chapter 26: Rubber Lips Takes Control



Chapter 27: Clipping The Wild Guy



Chapter 28: The Medford Induction



Chapter 29: First Blood



Chapter 30: Unleashing the Psycho



Chapter 31: The Three Banditos



Chapter 32: Tip of the Iceberg



Chapter 33: The Blessing



Chapter 34: Ponzo’s Plight



Chapter 35: The Gunsmoke Clears



Chapter 36: End of an Era



Chapter 37: The Headache Eliminator



Chapter 38: The No Name Gang



Chapter 39: Murder in Hudson



Chapter 40: The Aftermath



Chapter 41: The Investigation



Chapter 42: The Unraveling



Chapter 43: All of This Ends



Chapter 44: The Arrests



Chapter 45: Town Oxy Bandits



Chapter 46: The Legacy Continues



Epilogue: Charlestown Today

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Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Kriminologie
ISBN-10 1-949590-89-5 / 1949590895
ISBN-13 978-1-949590-89-0 / 9781949590890
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