Samuel Lindenbaum, DOB 1900, one of the last casualties of the Irish Gang War. He was a veteran underworld moneymaker who had his hand in everything from abortions to loansharking. In 1966, he started using Stevie Hughes, the last major survivor of the McLaughlin gang of Charlestown, as his bodyguard. The Man – Ray Patriarca – ordered him to stay away from Hughes but he apparently didn’t get the message. The Man told his hit crews, do what you have to do.

The killers wanted to make sure Hughes was dead; it was the least they could do for the memory of Buddy McLean. Lindenbaum was just collateral damage.

 The mob had put a tap on Lindenbaum’s phone, and knew where he and Hughes were planning to make their collection run that day. They were waiting.  

After the newspaper photographers got their pictures, the cops threw a tarp over the death car. They aren’t visible in the photo, but Lindenbaum had two of his pet Chihuahua dogs in the backseat when he was murdered. The hounds survived the shooting and the crash, and jumped out the window and were playing in the grass as the cops milled about the scene.
 

Now the car has been towed back up onto the roadway, and the State Police put the tarp, which had fallen off, back over the car to cover the bodies of Hughes and Lindenbaum.
 

Inside a garage, cops remove the bodies and place them on the floor, as gawkers gather (and obstruct our view).

After the murders of the Hughes brothers (see Connie death photos below) crooked FBI agent H. Paul Rico asked Stevie Flemmi about the hits. Rico, who died last year while under indictment for a 1981 murder Flemmi set up, apparently didn’t want to find out too much, as you can see from the reports.
 

My Life In The Mafia