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for good behavior. Less than two months after his release, the boy (now fourteen) was back in South Boston working at his mother’s shop when a ten-year-old girl wearing a plaid skirt walked in and asked him if she could buy a notebook for school. The milky eyed boy invited the girl to the basement of the shop, where he told her that he had one notebook left but that the cover had been stained with ink. The girl offered to buy it for two cents less than the retail price and was shown the cellar door. Jesse opened the door and followed her down the steps. Moments later, he put his arm around her neck, pulled out a knife, and cut her throat. He then dragged the body of ten-year-old Katie Curran behind a water closet and stuffed it in a trash heap. A few weeks later, Jesse lured four-year-old Horace Millen to the edge of Boston Harbor to see a new steamship. With the same knife he had used to murder Katie Curran, Pomeroy slashed the boy’s throat and then tried to castrate him. The young boy’s body was discovered a short time later by two boys who were playing on the beach. In addition to stabbing Horace Millen nearly two dozen times, the killer had also punctured the boy’s eyeball.
    Jesse Pomeroy was the lead suspect from the early stages of the investigation and later admitted to the boy’s murder along with the killing of Katie Curran. Dubbed the “Boy Fiend” by the press, he was charged and convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. But because he was only fourteen years old, his sentence was commuted to life behind bars in solitary confinement. The violent culture of the state reform school is certainly not to blame for Jesse Pomeroy’s murder spree, but it may have accelerated his homicidal behavior. The same can be said about Joe Barboza. He arrived at the Lyman School a troubled kid and left with a new hunger for violence and eventually murder.
    Young Joe was walking the razor’s edge when he was discharged from the Lyman School and sent back to the streets of New Bedford. He was looking for new scores with which to put money in his empty pockets. Hestill had little support at home despite his mother’s best efforts. She fed Joe and his brother, Donald, scraps that she brought home from the hospital cafeteria. The bleak financial situation forced Donald to quit school at the age of sixteen in an attempt to help his family out. He got a job as a welder’s apprentice at a shipyard in Providence. Donald would hand over a portion of his paycheck to his father every week in the belief that the elder Barboza would use the money to support his family. Years later, Donald Barboza found out that Joe Sr. had pocketed the money.
    Young Joe would not make his older brother’s mistake. He had no interest in spending long hours leaning over a hot blowtorch at some shipyard—whatever money he made he was going to keep. According to the Boston Herald Traveler , Barboza and his gang robbed sixteen houses in the New Bedford area over the span of just a couple of days, stealing money, watches, liquor, and guns. Easy money was not Joe’s only motivation. Sometimes he was inspired by the simple act of revenge. When a shop teacher insulted him for his lack of woodworking skills at the vocational school he was attending, Joe broke into the man’s house and went on a rampage. Lamps were toppled, photographs were smashed, and that wasn’t all. When police spoke to reporters about the incident, they said that the robbers had left a cream pie dripping from the wall. Of course, the press seized on this unique news nugget and dubbed the gang the “Cream Pie Bandits.” The real version of the robbery was too vile for even hardened investigators to reveal. What was dripping from the wall wasn’t pastry cream at all. Barboza had defecated on the floor and smeared some along every wall in the house.

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    That Pig on the Hill

    So this is where it happens.
The power games and bribes
    THE DEAD KENNEDYS
    Raymond L. S.