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The front-page headline of the Boston Herald American the next day, about the Halloran and Donahue murders on the waterfront

The article in the Herald American (May 12, 1982) showed the shot-up Datsun.

The screen house at Stevie Flemmi’s parents’ house on 832 East Third Street, where Stevie, Jimmy, and I hid a cache of weapons and ammunition. It was also used as a place to extort money from people.

The pier at Castle Island where Jimmy and I threw off Bucky Barrett’s clothes and belongings on an August night in 1983, hours after Bucky was killed in the basement of 799 East Third Street.

The Valhalla returned to Boston after transferring a shipment of arms to the IRA off the Irish coast.

John McIntyre was killed on November 30, 1984, for informing on the Valhalla arms shipment.

The triple-murder house at 799 East Third Street where John McIntyre, Bucky Barrett, and Debbie Hussey were killed between 1983 and 1985.

You have to trudge through heavy undergrowth to get to the Neponset River Bridge, which was a great place to bury a body.

Debra Davis was the girlfriend of Stevie Flemmi, before he killed her in 1981 in the basement of his parents’ house. She was twenty-six.

Debbie Hussey, Stevie’s “stepdaughter,” was killed by Stevie and Jimmy in 1985 at the triple murder house. She was also twenty-six.

On January 13, 2000, investigators unearthed the bodies of Bucky Barrett, John McIntyre, and Debbie Hussey beneath the striped tent across from Florian Hall in Dorchester.

The remains of Paulie McGonigle are placed into the medical examiner’s van at Tenean Beach in Dorchester on September 14, 2000.

Stevie Flemmi, Jimmy’s partner, who wouldn’t hesitate to use murder as a first option in dealing with people

Mugshots of Stevie Flemmi, who was arrested in January 1995 and eventually pled out to ten murders

A courtroom sketch of Stevie Flemmi at the hearings in front of Judge Wolf in 1997

On the stand at Michael Flemmi’s trial about the Mac 10 and Mac 11 machine guns, as well as one hundred other weapons Michael moved for his brother Stevie. My lawyer, Dennis Kelly, is behind me.

This sketch shows me being cross-examined by Tracy Miner at former FBI agent John Connolly’s trial in 2002. Judge Tauro is at the bench and Connolly and his wife are at right.

John Connolly and his wife, Liz, entering the courthouse during his trial

Jimmy and I would walk and talk at Castle Island out of earshot of the FBI. This is only one of two photos of us ever taken together.

My mugshot from my first arrest in July 1996

Jimmy was put on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List in August 1999 for eighteen counts of murder. There is a $1 million reward for information leading to his arrest. And he’s still on the run…

Before he was killed, Tommy King had threatened a Boston police detective that he was going to kill him. Knowing Tommy’s violent reputation and that he was a capable guy, the detective was afraid of him. Jimmy met with the detective, who was a tenacious investigator, and promised to talk to Tommy and make him listen to reason. If Tommy wouldn’t listen to him, Jimmy said, he would put himself between Tommy and the detective to defuse the situation and make sure no harm came to the detective. About a week later, Jimmy informed the detective that he no longer had a problem. He told him Tommy hadn’t listened to him, but he didn’t have to worry about anything, that Tommy would no longer bother him.

The truth was that even though Tommy King had made the threats, when Jimmy met with the detective, Tommy had already been dead for two weeks. Jimmy had ended up using Tommy’s death as leverage with this detective. He’d become friends with him by letting him think Tommy was gone on his behalf. It was just another case of Jimmy’s Machiavellian side, turning a potentially bad situation to his advantage.

Billy O’Sullivan’s death might not have happened if he had listened to Jimmy. Billy O had been with Jimmy against the Mullins and had shot Buddy