The end of Callahan

Filmed the assassination of John Callahan

Yesterday in Boston has been filmed the assassination of John B.Callahan on the set of Black Mass the biopic movie still unnamed starring Johnny Depp

in the role of Whitey Bulger the most famous and legendary mobster of all the Usa. The most wanted one as well.

 

The F.B.I. paid for Whitey Bulger, a domestic criminal something like 2 millions of dollars of reward for informations.

Whitey terrorized South Boston during the ’70s and ’80s and left for good Boston from 1995 to 2011 re-starting a new life under another identity in sunny Santa Monica. Two life sentencs and five years at the end of the trial in 2013, his attorney Hank Brennan is working on the appeal.

 

The movie is based on the book written by the two Boston Globe’s journalists and writers Gerard O’Neill and Dick Lher: “Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the F.B.I. and a devil’s deal” where there is an analysis of the connections between Whitey Bulger’s crime association and the F.B.I.

 

The story of Callahan is interesting and the Boston Globe of course offered a complete coverage of the event I will try a reconstruction of the events using their informations.

Boston Globe Pic of John Callahan

Callahan  was a business consultant and was found dead on august 2 1982.
It wasn’t a great scenario the one found by the investigators of course at their arrival in the scene of the crime. Callahan’s corpse in fact was found in a car park close to the Miami International Airport. In the past he was in better conditions.

Callahan in 1982 was just 45 years. A great successful man. But appearances apart, who knows why? investigators immediately started to suspecting that behind this murder there had to be the hand of  Whitey Bulger and his gang the so called “Winter Hill Gang“.

The man killed had had a wonderful and very successful life. Better life  couldn’t be possible.
Married, two children, graduated at the Boston College, later the work in two of the most famous and prestigious firms of the city: Ernst & Ernst and Arthur Andersen & Co.
Consultant to the First National Bank of Boston. A great CV for sure, big position and success.

Anyway in 1974 John Callahan became president of World Jai Alai leaving pretty abruptly the presidency when investigators started to investigate him, associating, linking his name to the ones of some important crimes people of the city of Boston.

Impossible to believe it but it strongly seemed Callahan started to make good friendship with men close to Whitey Bulger.

The society  was so sold in 1978 to Roger Wheeler, a businessman from Tulsa killed in 1981.

 

Of course investigators started of not having any doubts: waters weren’t clear at all, and Callahan continued to be associated with Whitey’s men.

The Boston Globe in 1981 received a statement from Callahan published in the newsmagazine. Of course the man defended himself from the very strong accuses moved by various investigators and rumors of any possibile involvement in criminal stories.

Callahan admitted maybe he had met at time at the World Jai Alai society people  without too much reputation. He admitted maybe he had met some of these people in public places as well but he strongly denied any kind of other involvement in any unclear business associated with organized crime.

Callahan became since there a sort of “weak link” as John Connolly it seems categorized this man talking to “Rifleman” (Flemmi) ando so he was killed.

 

 

Anna Maria Polidori