15 episodes
Dirty Rats Howie Carr
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- True Crime
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4.9 • 2.6K Ratings
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Dirty Rats is the true story of two of Boston's most powerful brothers - one a gangster, the other a politician - as they rose from poverty in a public-housing project to the pinnacles of power in their respective trades. Howie Carr, author of two New York Times bestsellers about Boston organized crime and their victims, unravels the brothers' sordid web of corruption and homicide that still haunts Boston to this day.
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1: Brothers in Blood
Billy Bulger will be largely remembered for something mostly out of his control: his brother, Whitey. Dirty Rats begins with the story of two brothers who grew up in the Old Harbor Village housing project in South Boston, but it certainly doesn't end there...
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2: The Girlfriend
At age 17, Deb Davis made the mistake of hooking up with the bloodthirsty underworld partner of Whitey Bulger -- Stevie "the Rifleman" Flemmi -- and it would cost her her life.
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3: Crooked Cop
John "Zip" Connolly was perhaps the most corrupt special agent in the tawdry history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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4: House of Horrors
The address was 799 East Third Street, where Whitey Bulger set up a murder assembly line. It was the 1980's and Bulger and his bloodthirsty crew were selling cocaine, running guns, extorting other gangsters and killing young women...and burying the bodies in the basement of a little house in South Boston.
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5: Under Oath
It was June 19, 2003 and Billy Bulger was under oath. The powerful politician would finally have to answer questions on live TV from appalled congressmen about his fugitive brother, Whitey.
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6: Under Oath Part 2
Why did Billy Bulger suspect that his serial-killing fugitive brother would be murdered if he were captured by the FBI? In this week's podcast, the former Senate president presciently predicts the future at a Congressional hearing -- more than 15 years before Whitey Bulger would be murdered at a federal prison in West Virginia.
Customer Reviews
Dirty Rats
I binged this in 2 days, just phenomenal
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Growing up in the Boston suburbs and working in Boston right beside the very garage Whitey Bulger occupied back then,the garage now is a parking lot the building to the left we do service work there all the time This is the best podcast I’ve ever listen to let’s get some more Radio talk show host Howie Carr hit this one way way over the fence
Not exactly a serial killer
This is an excellent in-depth podcast about the Bulger corruption of Boston and beyond. But constantly referring to James Bulger as a serial killer misses the mark. He was a corrosive criminal and a stone-cold killer. But his reasons for killing were apparently to protect himself or to exact revenge…not for psychological or sexual gratification. He viciously killed multiple people- he doesn’t have to be incorrectly labeled a serial killer to be evil.
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