Mar 12, 2021
(New Bedford, MA) A dead Providence mobster is being identified as a suspect in a Massachusetts murder.The Bristol County, Mass District Attorney s Office says Kevin Hanrahan, an associate of the Patriarca crime family, was one of the people who killed Howard Ferrini, a professional gambler from Berkley, Mass.The prosecutor s office said the ID was made thanks to an updated fingerprint database.Hanrahan was fatally shot in 1992, one year after Ferrini s death.
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March 9, 2021
Authorities have named a suspect in the murder of professional gambler Howard Ferrini, the Berkley man who was discovered dead at Logan Airport nearly 30 years ago,
The Bristol District Attorney’s office and the Massachusetts State Police said they learned that Kevin Hanrahan, a mafia enforcer who worked for the Patriarch crime family in Providence, was involved in Ferrini’s killing in 1991. Hanrahan, who also associated with criminals Frank “Cadillac” Salemme and Gordon O’Brien of Taunton, was shot to death in 1992.
The case was reopened last year as part of a new effort to revisit unsolved murders, and Hanrahan was identified thanks to an updated fingerprint database from the FBI.
Cops solve cold case murder of professional gambler, 53, found in trunk of his Cadillac at Boston airport 30 years ago and say new DNA evidence points man who worked for the Patriarca crime family
Bristol, Massachusetts County District Attorney s Office has managed to link a suspect to a cold case murder of Howard Ferrini in 1991
The body of Ferrini, a professional gambler, was found decomposing in the trunk of his blue Cadillac at Boston Airport with a plastic bag around his head
It was determined his skull was fractured by a hammer blow but died from asphyxiation after the plastic bag was placed over his head