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Overview

In this bold and suspenseful true-crime story, former homicide prosecutor Timothy M. Burke makes his case against one Leonard Paradiso. Lenny “The Quahog” was convicted of assaulting one young woman and paroled after three years, but Burke believes that he was guilty of much more – that Paradiso was a serial killer who operated in the Boston area, and maybe farther afield, for nearly fifteen years, assaulting countless young women and responsible for the deaths of as many as seven. Burke takes the reader inside the minds of prosecutors, police investigators, and one very dangerous man who thought he had figured out how to rape and murder and get away with it.
The Paradiso Files generated headlines when first published in February 2008. Nine days later, Paradiso died at the age of sixty-five without commenting on any of Burke’s accusations, including that he murdered Joan Webster, a Harvard graduate student who disappeared from Logan Airport in 1981. Boston-area prosecutors announced in September 2008 that Burke’s revelations had led them to reopen the unsolved murder cases of three young women – Melodie Stankiewicz, Holly Davidson, and Kathy Williams. There were “too many similarities between the individual cases to ignore,” a prosecutor involved in the new investigation said. Burke’s account leaves little doubt that Paradiso’s deeds should go down in infamy, alongside those of the Boston Strangler.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781586421496
  • Publisher: Steerforth Press
  • Publication date: 12/2/2008
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 368
  • Sales rank: 699,637
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Timothy Burke successfully prosecuted more than twenty-five murder cases and more than fifty major felonies while assigned to the Homicide Unit of the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office, including heading an investigation into the activities of mobster Whitey Bulger, currently number two on the FBI’s Most Wanted List. Legal counsel to more than twenty Massachusetts law enforcement agencies, Burke is married, the father of four children, and maintains an active law practice in suburban Boston.

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It was the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend. On November 28, 1981, Eastern Airlines Flight 960 out of Newark touched down at Boston’s Logan Airport shortly after 10:30 pm in a raw wind. On the plane Joan Webster, a second-year graduate student at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, grabbed her coat, purse, and brown leather totebag, filled with textbooks, and waited in the stuffy cabin for the plane to empty. It had been an uneventful hour-long flight as Joan chatted with other passengers about the holiday spent with her parents in her home in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, and the architectural program she was enrolled in at Harvard. She was, her family would later say, in a buoyant mood, excited about a design project she was working on with two of her classmates. The project she was working on was of particular concern to Joan. She had decided to leave New Jersey after a cocktail party planned for that Saturday night. She needed to get back to Boston that evening because of a meeting she had scheduled early Sunday morning to discuss the project with her colleagues, she told her parents. The news didn’t sit well with Terry and George Webster, who wanted their youngest child to return to Boston by car the next day with her older sister, Anne, who worked in the Boston area. When Joan insisted, the couple gave in. After the cocktail party at the home of family friends, her parents and Anne drove her to Newark Airport, handing her twenty dollars to take a cab from Logan Airport in Boston to her dormitory in Cambridge. Wary of her daughter becoming the victim of a mugging, Terry cautioned her to remove the gold charm bracelet she was wearing on her wrist. Joan took off the bracelet, filled with charms from years of childhood travels, and slipped it into her purse. With no way to know that she was saying good-bye to her parents and sister for the last time, Joan stepped into the airport terminal to board her Boston-bound flight. By the time her plane touched down that Saturday night, Joan was exhausted. Dressed in the same black suit and red paisley shirt she had worn only hours before to the cocktail party, the attractive young woman stood by the baggage claim area with her Chesterfield coat slung over her arm, waiting patiently for her dark plaid Lark suitcase. She grabbed the bag, stuffed with a weekend’s worth of clothing as it slid past on the luggage carousel, walked out of the terminal into the chilly night air, and simply disappeared.

Table of Contents


Prologue: Harvard Medical College, 1849 1
1 The Combat Zone 3
2 The Corner of Cottage and Webster Streets 5
3 Suffolk County 8
4 Boston Harbor 13
5 The North End 16
6 The Back Bay 19
7 Lowell Street 23
8 Ames Pond 26
9 Florida, Massachusetts 31
10 Norfolk Prison 34
11 King B's 37
12 The Pines River 39
13 East Boston 41
14 Miami 44
15 Winthrop Avenue 46
16 Bankruptcy Court 49
17 Logan Airport 51
18 The Lynn Marsh Road 54
19 Bay State 58
20 White Christmas 60
21 False Leads 62
22 The Boston Globe 64
23 Newton Corner 67
24 Essex County 70
25 The Cardinal's Nest 74
26 Conley and Daggett's 77
27 Key Largo 79
28 The Usual Haunts 85
29 The Registry of Motor Vehicles 88
30 Indictment Number 038655 91
31 Revere 93
32 The Arraignment 97
33 Room 603 101
34 The Steaming Kettle 104
35 Electrophoresis 109
36 Boston City Hospital 112
37 24 Jacobs Street 114
38 Charles Street Jail 117
39 Third Tier 121
40 Pemberton Square 122
41 The First Session 127
42 Route 2 134
43 Saugus High School 138
44 Joe Tecce's 140
45 The Supreme Judicial Court 143
46 Middlesex County 145
47 Courtroom 808 147
48 212 Crescent Avenue 149
49 The Sixth Floor 152
50 Ellsworth, Maine 154
51 Tombstone, Arizona 157
52 Lynn Hospital 161
53 The Boston Marathon 163
54 Court Street 165
55 40 Avalon Street 168
56 The Six O'Clock News 171
57 Point of Pines 173
58 Egg Rock Light 176
59 Faneuil Hall 178
60 Anthony's Pier 4 Restaurant 182
61 The Lancaster Street Garage 185
62 The JFK Building 187
63 Harvard Yard 189
64 Marsh Vegas 195
65 TheFairview Inn 198
66 Durgin Park 203
67 All Nu Upholstery 207
68 The Mala Femmena 209
69 Evil Woman 212
70 Pier 7 213
71 The Erie Barge 216
72 Cohocton, New York 218
73 1010 Commonwealth Avenue 221
74 The Great Schmoozer 226
75 Sacco and Vanzetti 230
76 Box 100 234
77 The Ides of March 236
78 Feeding Ground 241
79 Trial Preparation 245
80 The Jury 247
81 The View 251
82 Opening Statements 254
83 Walsh and Scully 257
84 DeLisi and Kamer 260
85 Fraelick and Katsas 264
86 Shulman and Sullivan 269
87 Anchukitis and Sjoberg 271
88 Tony Pisa 281
89 George and Terry Webster 288
90 Drew 290
91 Robert L. Bond 295
92 David Doyle 303
93 Judd Carhart 312
94 David Dellaria 315
95 Candace Weyant 322
96 Closing Arguments 329
97 Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt 336
98 The Verdict 338 Author's Note 349

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 13, 2009

    Easy Read

    Interesting read when you know the people, know the locations, and have a vague rememberance of the facts. But having known the main character "ponytail" and he didn't eat Chowder. Indulgences are made. As little fact as that may be there are much bigger ones in this book. Take it for what it is, an interesting read. Not sure about the whole ture life crime. It is to the eye of the writer.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 14, 2009

    Awful Writing Style

    The book is written in a curious third-person format that is self-serving to the author and annoying to the reader. By chosing that particular style, the author can easily excuse away defeats (usually before they happen) and cover himself in glory when he may not deserve it. How many cups of chowder can the "young lawyer" share with "ponytail"?

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 24, 2008

    great read

    I thought that this was an excellent book. A very well written page-turner about both the legal process and the mind of a serial killer.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 8, 2008

    Get Your Facts Straight!!!

    Ok so this is supposedly a true story of a serial killer. Hmmmmm, already starts off with a falsehood. Lenny Paraidso was not born in Italy. He was born in Boston and never went to Italy. Also, he was never convicted on any hard evidence. What else could be madeup in this book???

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 13, 2008

    Well-written and intriguing....

    I read this book when it first was published, and I have to say, the criticisms of it are less related to the book and more about the guilt or innocence of Paradiso. The BOOK is well-written, intriguing and thought provoking. The author does a great job of describing events and limitations of the investigative process. Paradiso WAS convicted of terrible crimes, and not just once. I don't particularly care where he was born or if he ever visited Italy, that has nothing to do with the FACT that this man was convicted for the crimes he committed.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 17, 2008

    Easy read, page turner...True crime story at it's best!

    In this easy to read, page turner, Timothy Burke clearly and concisely outlines his reasons for thinking Paradiso to be a serial rapist and killer. Burke details the investigation and evidence that convicted Paradiso of the Ianuzzi rape and murder and that which leaves him suspect in several other unsolved crimes. Burke provides the reader with a fascinating insight into the mind of a killer, the tedious investigation and the criminal justice system as a whole. The torture of the victims, the frustration of the investigators, the determination of Burke and the district attorney's office are expressed with candor and respect. The author through his character descriptions and relationship with Drew in particular, tells this compelling story of a serial rapist and killer. For the readers added pleasure, throughout the book the author brings us to several Boston venues, writes of historic events and shares an obvious affection for music. Timothy Burke clearly rivals the writing style of Parker.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 28, 2008

    Looking for a page turning edge of your seat thriller? look no further than the Paradiso Files.

    In the Paradiso Files, Former D.A of Suffolk County turned author Tim Burke takes you into the mind of a sociopath Lenny 'the Quahog' Paradiso, a convicted murderer from East Boston. Burke does an excellent job of bringing you the story of the Quahog through brutal detail and graphic recollection of his involvement as the A.D.A in bringing this suspected serial killer to justice. From beginning to end you will be captivated by the pure and gut wrenching evil that Paradiso inflicted on his innumerous victims, beginning with a young prostitute in the former red light district of Boston, to the luring of both Maria Ianuzzi and Joan Webster into his car where they would last be seen. Seemingly without care or any sense of remorse Paradiso preyed on young women with a catch me if you can mentality that ultimately leads to his conviction. This book will leave you both appalled by a legal system that continued to let the Quahog back on the streets, and thankful that someone like Tim Burke fought as hard as he did to put an animal like this away.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 26, 2008

    Put this on your 'Must Read' List

    This is probably one of the best true crime books I've read in a long, long time. This chilling tale by first time author Timothy Burke is a sharply written and fascinating story about a serial killer who operated under the radar in Boston during the 1980s. All true crime fans will want to have a copy in their collection.

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