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Francis (Buddy) Leonard
| Francis Xavier “Buddy” Leonard, DOB 1940. Like the Bulgers, Buddy was from Logan Way. But he was not nearly as successful as Whitey, and was pinched time and again. His luck finally ran out in November 1975. Whitey decided to eliminate Tommy King, who had helped him murder Paulie McGonagle. That alone was grounds for death, but when King got the best of Whitey in a bar fight, he had to go immediately. He was shot to death by Johnny Martorano and then buried on state land on the banks of the Neponset River. Whitey then took King’s car and grabbed King’s good friend Leonard as he left his favorite barroom, tipsy. Whitey shot his old neighbor in head , and left his body in King’s car in an effort to add even more confusion to the disappearance of Tommy King. |
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King’s car, with Buddy Leonard’s body inside, was abandoned in the housing project where both Whitey and Buddy had grown up. Police were “baffled” and wondered, as they were supposed to, if Leonard had anything to do with the disappearance of his buddy. King’s body was recovered in a marsh on the Quincy line in the fall of 2000. When driving past the site, Whitey would always say to whoever was in the car, “Tip your hat to Tommy.” |
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