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
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Massachusetts authorities said this week they have identified at least one of the suspects involved in the 30-year-old cold casemurder of a professional gambler, according to reports.
The Massachusetts State Police Unresolved Cases Unit and the the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office’s Cold Case Unit, with help from the FBI, said it was able to match a fingerprint on a plastic bag used to suffocate Howard Ferrini, 53, in August 1991. The match led them to a mafia enforcer who was killed a year later, the Taunton Daily Gazette reported.
Authorities solve 1991 homicide of man whose body was found in trunk of car at Logan Airport
By John R. Ellement Globe Staff,Updated March 10, 2021, 3:21 p.m.
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Howard J. Ferrini and his daughter, Kelly. Authorities say they have solved his murder in 1991.Kelly Ferrini
Kelly Ferrini said her father showed her how he cheated at games of chance while working as a professional gambler, a career that violently ended for Howard J. Ferrini on Aug. 14, 1991.
There was a pair of loaded dice he sometimes used â and his ability to pull a card from his hand or a deck and furtively slide it into his shirt, his daughter said. And, she added, he would often go to card games with an ally, each pretending not to know the other.