EP 43 | What Happened To Andy Puglisi? Lawrence, Massachusetts & A Local History of Crimes Against Children (part one)

What happened to Andy Puglisi? Part one.

This is a true crime, local history, and storytelling podcast. I write about crimes, yes, I set the scene, connect story themes, I talk about things that happened here, in Massachusetts and New England. This episode is about murdered and missing children, one in particular, about child sexual abuse, the attitudes among the public at large in regard to this topic, and the part that the Catholic Church has played in the serial abuse of children. If this is something that will hurt you, impede your own healing, or offend you, it may not be something you wish to listen to. This often goes unsaid, but this podcast is not for children.

Andy Puglisi vanished on August 22, 1976 from his neighborhood in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He was two weeks away from his eleventh birthday. His case remains one of the greatest mysteries in the state's history.  Andy disappeared long before the many advances were made to assist in locating missing children in the hours immediately following an abduction. 

To this day, the question remains  unanswered : What happened to Andy Puglisi?

Reading:

The Boston Phoenix, March 23, 2001  By Kristen Lombardi - Cardinal Sin: Sex-abuse victims of former priest John Geoghan charge that Cardinal Bernard Law was told of Geoghan’s criminal activity as early as 1984 but did nothing to stop it. Now they want to know why.

The Boston Globe Spotlight piece, Jan 6, 2002 - This article was prepared by the Globe Spotlight Team: reporters Matt Carroll, Sacha Pfeiffer, and Michael Rezendes; and editor Walter V. Robinson. It was written by Rezendes.
Church allowed abuse by priest for years - Aware of Geoghan record, archdiocese still shuttled him from parish to parish

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane, 2001

Recommended viewing:

Have You Seen Andy? by Melanie Perkins (Andy's childhood friend), 2007

Amber: The Girl Behind the Alert, 2023

Spotlight, 2015 film

Mystic River, 2003 film

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