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Hugh (Sonny) Shields
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Sonny – 1961 |
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Sonny – 1969, looking a little the worse for wear. |
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Meet Hugh "Sonny" Shields, DOB 2-21-37, center, as photographed in 1969. Stylishly attired in handcuffs, a polyester shirt, a short-brim hat and the ever-fashionable Hush Puppies, he had just been charged with murdering the last of the Bennett brothers, Billy, in 1967. Sonny beat the rap, and was later machine-gunned by Whitey Bulger in a car on Commercial Street in 1973. The hard-luck Sonny survived, and fled Boston, but in 1975 he returned and, he claimed, was offered a contract by a “tall” FBI agent (apparently Bob Sheehan) to murder the Angiulos at 98 Prince Street, the Doghouse. Sheehan’s partner, Dennis Condon, was asked about the alleged overture by Sheehan in 1998. Dennis Condon was the ex-partner of H. Paul Rico, who at the time of his death was under indictment for murder, along with Whitey, in Oklahoma. |
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