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Billy Bennett
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The Bennett Brothers ran a small but
lucrative racketering enterprise in Roxbury, Dorchester and the South
End of Boston, Massachusetts. But the boss, Wimpy Bennett, made a fatal
mistake. He took in a young hoodlum named Stevie Flemmi. Flemmi murdered
Wimpy in a garage in February 1967 and buried his body at a gun range in
Hopkinton. Walter Bennett went looking for his missing brother and ended
up buried beside Wimpy in April 1967. That left Billy Bennett. Stevie
was taking him, "for a ride" to join his brothers, but the force of the
lead shot
propelled his
body forward out of the car and into a snowbank in Dorchester.
Eventually, in 1970, a couple of guys,
including a Boston detective, were tried for Bennett’s murder. They were
acquitted. Billy’s trusted underling who lured him out of his house on
the fatal evening – Richard Grasso, of South Boston – disappeared
immediately after the hit. His body was found in the trunk of his
car a week later. No one was ever convicted of that murder either.
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