{"id":51484,"date":"2025-11-25T11:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/51484\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T11:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:20:13","slug":"workers-find-skull-encased-in-concrete-at-boston-pier-sparking-mob-hit-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/51484\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers find ‘skull’ encased in concrete at Boston pier, sparking mob hit fears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Construction workers at a Boston pier found what appeared to be a human skull encased<\/a> in concrete last week \u2014 prompting a flurry of speculation that the victim of a mob hit from the likes of Whitey Bulger had been uncovered.<\/p>\n

The discovery was made Thursday by workers sawing into a concrete portion of the pier, with photos showing the distinct shape of a human skull protruding from the inside a chunk of broken material.<\/p>\n

A human skull was found at a Boston pier. NBC<\/p>\n

The skull was found encased in concrete Thursday. NBC<\/p>\n

Workers told NBC 10 Boston<\/a> they \u201ccould not believe what they were seeing,\u201d and police were promptly called.<\/p>\n

The apparent skull was bagged and sent off to a medical examiner<\/a> for analysis \u2014 while some began to wonder whether cops would finally be able to close an old cold case, or else would have to open a new investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cA gut reaction is to make some connection to a mob hit,\u201d former Massachusetts <\/a>state trooper Todd McGhee told NBC 10.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe location was chosen where it was probably a remote situation and there was no anticipation of any human interaction in that area,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd lo and behold, the skull was discovered.\u201d<\/p>\n

Initial speculation posited the skull is a victim of a mob hit from the likes of Whitey Bulger. NBC<\/p>\n

The theory was not far-fetched.<\/p>\n

Boston\u2019s history of organized crime is well known, with numerous murders associated<\/a> to mobster Whitey Bulger and his \u201cWinter Hill Gang,\u201d which terrorized the City on a Hill for decades beginning in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

However, within days the intrigue was all for naught. <\/p>\n

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner announced Monday that the skull was in fact fake, the Boston Globe reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It remains unclear how it got there and no other information was immediately available about any ongoing investigation into the mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Construction workers at a Boston pier found what appeared to be a human skull encased in concrete last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7064,303,28636,6239,9,11,10,28637,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-51484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-boston","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-james-whitey-bulger","11":"tag-mafia","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-skulls","16":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}