11.11.2020 · Detective John Brazil was a part of the 65 people task force that was formed by the State of Massachusetts to investigate the murder of Detective John Mulligan. While Brazil was on this case, he came across another homicide, the double murder of Tracy Brown and Celine Kirk, which is how he came in contact with Sean Ellis, their cousin.
1996: Police drug robberies exposed. Five months after Sean Ellis’s conviction, the Boston Globe's award-winning investigative Spotlight Team broke the story of major corruption in Boston's Area E-5 station house -- the professional home of victim John Mulligan and task force investigators Kenneth Acerra, Walter Robinson, and John Brazil (until 1992).
12.11.2020 · It tells the story of Sean K Ellis, an American man who served 22 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of killing Boston Police detective John Mulligan in 1993.
Detective John Mulligan was shot and killed while working a secondary employment detail. He was shot five times in the face, execution-style, as he sat in his ...
11.11.2020 · Boston Police Det. John Mulligan, as seen in 1978. And in 1986, Mulligan was mentioned in a federal corruption probe of the force, in which a drug dealer testified the detective was “among many...
11.11.2020 · A 1996 report by the Spotlight team uncovered that Mulligan's colleagues, Detectives Kenneth Acerra, Walter Robinson, and John Brazil were involved in corrupt schemes on the job. All three detectives proved to be corrupt cops who falsified search warrants to gain entry to the apartments of known drug dealers and illegal immigrants.
11.11.2020 · Mulligan had been a Boston police detective for 17 years before his death. In the early morning of September 26, 1993, he was working a paid security detail at a Walgreens pharmacy in the Roslindale section of Boston, a detail that he worked several times a week.
07.05.2015 · Mulligan had a tough reputation around town. He was cited by the department as a “problem officer” in a Boston Globe expose. Still, police were shocked that someone would shoot a cop; not once but five times in the face as he slept in his SUV while on a paid detail in Roslindale on September 26, 1993.
26.09.2021 · The second subject also had his first-degree murder conviction overturned on appeal in 2015. The remaining convictions against the man for possessing the murder weapon and Detective Mulligan's service weapon remained unchanged. Detective Mulligan had served with the Boston Police Department for 27 years. He is survived by his two sons. Bio Age 52
08.05.2021 · Three detectives, Kenneth Acerra, John Brazil and Walter Robinson, were being investigated for corruption just a few weeks before the murder of Mulligan, who was also being investigated. The three...