John A Kelly

Death by Force

In the early morning hours of June 28, 1978, the city of Boston awoke to a brutal crime that would come to be known as the "Blackfriars Massacre." Among the five men found slain in the basement of the Blackfriars Pub on Summer Street was 34-year-old John A. "Jack" Kelly, a former investigative journalist who had taken on the role of the pub's night manager. A male, he, along with the pub's owner, Vincent E. Solmonte, and three other men, Peter Meroth, Freddy Delavega, and Charles Magarian, had b ...Read More