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John James Mulligan

Case from Boston, MA dated Sep 26, 1993

Victim Details

John James Mulligan

Male

White / Caucasian

Boston

MA

1993-09-26

52

John

James Mulligan

07/11/2026

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In the pre-dawn hours of September 26, 1993, a chilling discovery was made in the parking lot of a Walgreens drugstore in Boston's Roslindale neighborhood. John James Mulligan, a 52-year-old White male and a 27-year veteran detective of the Boston Police Department, was found slumped in his Ford Explorer. He was working a paid security detail, a routine task in a long career, but his death was anything but ordinary. Mulligan had been shot five times in the face in what was described as an execut ...
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