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Podcast: True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer
Episode: BURN BOSTON BURN --WAYNE M MILLER IS OUR GUEST
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The Largest True Crime Arson Case in America’s History
In this astounding true crime narration a conspiracy of nine men, including three Boston cops and a Boston firefighter, burned Boston and surrounding communities in the early 1980’s due to tax-cutting measures that caused layoffs of hundreds of police and firefighters.
The case was covered by national media in the early to mid-1980s. Over two years, these fire buffs, turned arsonists, torched 264 buildings, causing millions of dollars in damages and hundreds of injuries. The city was ablaze with nightly fires, sirens wailing through the stre...