32 East Third Street

32 East Third Street was the second home of Winter Hill Gang member Stephen Flemmi's parents, Giovanni and Mary Flemmi. It was also used as a makeshift burial ground for two of Steven Flemmi's murder victims and as a storage facility for the Winter Hill Gang's arsenal of firepower. It acted as a meeting place and makeshift headquarters where many bank robberies and criminal plans were orchestrated.

Meeting Place

Giovanni and Mary lived at the home from from 1979 to 1997 to when Mary passed away of natural causes in her early to late 80's. Steven helped her resettle with his father Giovanni into the home after she was viciously mugged by a gang of ten blacks on a street in South Boston. The incident left her beaten and bruised. The incident was featurd on the front page of the Boston Herald newspaper. The incident infuriated Steven who was very close to his mother, unlike his brothers Vincent and Michael. It was a regular meeting place for James J. Bulger, next door neighbour William Bulger, Stephen Flemmi, John Martorano, Dennis Condon, John Connolly, Frank Gianturco and H. Paul Rico. In the 1990's his father had died of natural causes, and Mary who at the time was in her 90's was suffering from Alzheimer's Disease and kidney failure.

Layout of the Flemmi household

The house included an enclosed sun porch, which, if weather-proofed, would be usable year-around. The sun porch also was used as a storage place for machine guns, firearm silencer including the bodies of Steven Flemmi's stepdaughter Deborah Hussey and William (Bucky) Barrett. The cache of weapons later recovered by the government included revolvers, pistols, rifles, an automatic machine gun, a sawed off shotgun and an Israeli-manufactured semi-automatic machine gun. In addition to the firearms, there were brass knuckles, ski masks and plenty of ammunition hidden underneath the sun porch. In October 1985, the house was put up for sale. Kevin Weeks was assigned the grisly task of disinterring the bodies on Halloween, and after nightfall, reburying them in a lot across the street from Florian Hall in Dorchester. Digging up the corpses, Weeks and another gang member wore painters' masks to cover the stench of the rotting flesh, then loaded the bodies into a station wagon they dubbed "The Hearse." A real estate developer Richard Bucheri in Quincy was extorted of $200,000 after he advised a neighbour of Kevin Weeks in a dispute over the location of a fence. He received a call from Steven ordering him to appear at the house. When he arrived James J. Bulger was sitting at the kitchen table with a shotgun pointed at him.

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