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Edward (Wimpy)Bennett
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DOB 1-1-19, Boston MA. Alias,
“Wimpy.” Mentor of Stevie and Jimmy the Bear Flemmi in organized crime.
Murdered by Stevie in Wimpy’s garage on Columbus Avenue in the South
End, February 1967, and later buried at a gun club in Hopkinton. (His
brother Walter was later buried there as well after Stevie murdered
him.) There was one witness: the gang’s bookkeeper, Peter Poulos.
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| Wimpy Bennett, center with hat, leaves indicted by the Suffolk County Grand Jury with another suspect, John "Fat" Buccelli. Both were charged as accessories after the fact in the Brinks robbery. A few months later Bucelli would be shot to death in his Cadillac. Wimpy was not charged. |
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| Wimpy Bennett, left, with his lawyer after appearing in front of the Brinks grand jury in 1957. He didn’t know nothing. |
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Wimpy Bennett,
age 36. 1955 photo |
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