ITEMS.
(HE)
TONIGHT THE TARGET 12
INVESTIGATORS TAKE YOU
INSIDE THE MAFIA.
A RARE CHANCE FOR YOU
TO HEAR FROM A
GOVERNMENT
INFORMANT...RELIVING A
BRAZEN GANGLAND
SLAYING ON FEDERAL
HILL.
I was extremely extemely
shocked.
Definitely shook up by it.
Its not every day that you have
dinner with a guy who gets shot
in
the head 20 minutes after you
leave
(4712)
PLACED IN THE WITNESS
PROTECTION PROGRAM...
THE INFORMANT WE
TALKED TO WAS ON THE
HILL THE NIGHT MOB
ENFORCER KEVIN
HANRAHAN WAS GUNNED
DOWN.
(MM)
NOW, MORE THAN TWO
DECADES LATER, TARGET
12 HAS LEARNED---- THIS
MOB COLD CASE MAY
SOON BE COMING TO A
CLOSE.
TARGET 12 INVESTIGATOR
TIM WHITE IS HERE NOW
WITH THE EXCLUSIVE
DETAILS
YEARS AGO THIS INFORMANT
GOT HIS HANDS ON MY NUMBER
AND REACHED OUT TO ME.
WE'VE BEEN TALKING EVER
SINCE.
NOW, HE'S WILLING TO TALK TO
YOU ABOUT THE NIGHT OF
THE HANRAHAN MURDER,
AND WHY HE MADE THE CHOICE
TO LEAVE RHODE ISLAND'S
UNDERWORLD TO START A NEW
LIFE.
THE FIRST TIME HE MET KEVIN
HANRAHAN,
WOULD BE THE LAST.
I had been at the Arch
restaurant
having dinner with a group of
people
and Kevin Hanrahan was invited
to
join our party
IT WAS SEPTEMBER 18, 1992...
AND THE NEXT MORNING, HE
LEARNED THAT HANRAHAN...
A NOTORIOUS GANGSTER WITH
A VIOLENT REPUTATION - HAD
BEEN SHOT THREE TIMES TO
THE HEAD.
THE INFORMANT SAYS,
THE STREETS WERE
IMMEDIATELY BUZZING WITH
WHO HAD PULLED OFF THE
MOB HIT.
at the time as I said I was
already
working for the government so I
was kind of keying in on
everything
that was going on
ONE OF THE WHISPERED
NAMES AT THE TIME:
MOBSTER ROBERT "BOBBY"
DELUCA.
FAST FORWARD TO 2017...
DELUCA PLEADED GUILTY TO
MURDER CONSPIRACY FOR HIS
ROLE IN THE HANRAHAN
SLAYING.
Reviewing DeLuca's case file,
Target 12 found this: as part of
the
plea deal with prosecutors in a
pledge to cooperate...
The Attorney General's office is
recommending DeLuca's 10 year
sentence be suspended,
But the no-jail time agreement
still
needs approval by a judge.
why do you think its taken so
long
to get to this point?
I dont know there were witnesses
to
it, but if there were its very
unusual
for people to come forward in
such a
situation because of the fear of
retribution.
TARGET 12 HAS LEARNED
ANOTHER MOBSTER IS A PRIME
SUSPECT IN THE MURDER,
CAPO REGIME EDWARD 'EDDIE'
LATO.
THE 70-YEAR-OLD IS
CURRENTLY IN A FEDERAL
PRISON FROM A SEPARATE
CASE,
AND IS SET TO BE RELEASED IN
2019.
Eddie Lato was always known
throughout the streets that he
was a
tough guy nobody to screw around
with.
THE ICE-COLD HANRAHAN CASE
HEATED UP FOLLOWING THE
ARREST OF DELUCA LAST
YEAR,
IN A SEPARATE ORGANIZED
CRIME PROBE OUT OF BOSTON.
AS PART OF A PLEA DEAL UP
THERE,
HE'S PLEDGED TO COOPERATE
WITH RHODE ISLAND
INVESTIGATORS IN THE
HANRAHAN MURDER.
Eventually that house of cards
is
starting to fold. So hopefully
with all
this coming forward this case
will be
a closed case.
TARGET 12 IS NOT IDENTIFYING
THE INFORMANT AND WE
ALTERED HIS VOICE FOR THIS
INTERVIEW.
AFTER PROVIDING
INFORMATION AGAINST HIGH
LEVEL MOBSTERS IN A SEPARTE
CASE YEARS AGO,
HE WAS RELOCATED BY THE
U-S MARSHALS SERVICE AND
GIVEN A NEW IDENTITY.
WITH THE TARGET 12
INVESTIGATORS, TIM WHITE,
EYEWITNESS NEWS.
(HE)
THIS INVESTIGATION
"INSIDE THE MAFIA"
CONTINUES NEXT ON
EYEWITENSS NEWS AT 6.
HEAR WHY THE
INFORMANT DECIDED TO
COOPEPRATE WITH THE
GOVERNMENT -- AND IF HE
WAS ABLE TO ADAPT TO
HIS NEW IDENTITY AND
NEW LIFE.
NOW, CHIEF METEORLOGIST
(HE)
TONIGHT THE TARGET 12
INVESTIGATORS TAKE YOU
INSIDE THE MAFIA.
GIVEN A NEW NAME, A
NEW LIFE AND RELOCATED
FROM RHODE ISLAND....
THIS FORMER
GOVERNMENT INFORMANT
IS TALKING EXCLUSIVELY
WITH TARGET 12.
(0046) It was very stressful, it
was
an every day thought of the
chances
of getting discovered and
getting
killed
(MM)
AT FIVE WE REVEALED
NEW DETAILS IN A MOB
COLD CASE: THE
GANGLAND SLAYING OF
KEVIN HANRAHAN.
NEW AT 6 ---
THIS FORMER INFORMANT
TELLS US ----WHAT IT WAS
LIKE TO WEAR A WIRE ON
MOBSTERS...
(HE)
AND IF HE WAS ABLE TO
ADJUST TO HIS NEW LIFE
IN THE WITNESS
PROTECTION PROGRAM.
TARGET 12 INVESTIGATOR
TIM WHITE IS HERE WITH
THE EXCLUSIVE
INTERVIEW
RELOCATED FAR FROM RHODE
ISLAND BY THE U-S MARSHALS
SERVICE
WE INTERVIEWED THIS FORMER
RHODE ISLANDER BY PHONE.
FOR HIS PROTECTION,
TARGET 12 IS NOT USING HIS
NAME AND HAS ALTERED HIS
VOICE
THE SEPTEMBER 1992 NIGHT
MOB ENFORCER KEVIN
HANRAHAN WAS GUNNED
DOWN...
(4705) Its not every day that
you
have dinner with a guy who gets
shot in the head 20 minutes
after
you leave (4712)
THIS GOVERNMENT INFORMANT
KNEW HIS LIFE IN THE
UNDERWORLD,
COULD ONLY LEAD IN TWO
DIRECTIONS.
(4814) The ending that Kevin
Hanrahan met with, or prison.
AT THAT TIME,
HE WAS ALREADY WORKING
WITH PROSECUTORS AND
POLICE,
FEEDING INFORMATION THAT
WOULD LATER PROVE VITAL IN A
SEPARATE MOB INVESTIGATION.
(4824) Once I started to see the
treachery and disloyalty that
existed
in that life, it was important
to me to
get a differnt life and change
my life.
(4838)
AFTER HIS WORK - SOMETIMES
WEARING A WIRE ON SOME
DANGEROUS CHARACTERS...
HE WAS PUT INTO THE WITNESS
PROTECTION PROGRAM.
(0314) I was specifically asked
do
you really think you can change
your life, and it was asked to
me in a
way the person who was asking
the
question didnt seem like they
had a
whole lot of confidence in the
fact I
was going to do so. (0327)
GROWING UP INFLUENCED BY
THE NEW ENGLAND MOB,
(5651) I had always looked at
law
enforcement as the enemy it was
absoultey the opposite (5656)
IT TURNS OUT TO BE COPS AND
PROSECUTORS - THAT
ULTIMATELY LIFTED HIM UP,
AND OUT OF THAT LIFE.
(5948) as much as I didnt want
to let
myself down, I didnt want to let
them
down, I didnt want to be another
statistic that went into the
program
and failed. (5957)
AS WE REPORTED AT 5:
A KEY SUSPECT IN THE
HANRAHAN MURDER CASE IS
IMPRISONED MOBSTER EDDIE
LATO.
THE 70 YEAR OLD MOB CAPTAIN
IS SERVING TIME IN A SEPARATE
CASE AND HAS NOT YET BEEN
CHARGED IN THE HANRAHAN
SLAYING.
WITH THE TARGET 12
INVESTIGATORS TIM WHITE
EYEWITNESS NEWS.