Dirty Rats

The address was 799 East Third Street, where Whitey Bulger set up a murder assembly line. It was the 1980's and Bulger and his bloodthirsty crew were selling cocaine, running guns, extorting other gangsters and killing young women...and burying the bodies in the basement of a little house in South Boston.

John "Zip" Connolly was perhaps the most corrupt special agent in the tawdry history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

John "Zip" Connolly was perhaps the most corrupt special agent in the tawdry history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

At age 17, Deb Davis made the mistake of hooking up with the bloodthirsty underworld partner of Whitey Bulger -- Stevie "the Rifleman" Flemmi -- and it would cost her her life.

Billy Bulger will be largely remembered for something mostly out of his control: his brother, Whitey. Dirty Rats begins with the story of two brothers who grew up in the Old Harbor Village housing project in South Boston, but it certainly doesn't end there...