Before Whitey Bulger's bloody reign, before the Boston FBI was torn apart by indictments and revelations of corruption--there was Joe "The Animal" Barboza
CASEY SHERMAN is a Boston-based journalist and the author of A Rose for Mary: The Hunt for the Real Boston Strangler and Bad Blood: Freedom and Death in the White Mountains, among others. He is the coauthor of The Finest Hours: The True Story of the Coast Guard's Most Daring Rescue.