Season three! In episode 48, we head to the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury where, in the summer of 1988, the murder of 12-year-old Darlene Tiffany Moore in the area known as the H-Block (named for the streets: Humboldt, Homestead, Harold, Harrishof, and Holworthy) had a major impact on the city. She was an innocent girl with a life full of promise and just two days away from returning to her new hometown of Greenville, South Carolina to begin 7th grade. It was not to be.
She was in an area known as a thoroughfare of violence and was struck with a bullet meant for another. But who? A rival gang member? Revenge for a bad drug deal? This is a story about Boston’s past, the war on drugs, murdered kids, "Just So No", the violent drug trade, street gangs, an outraged community, witness intimidation, police misconduct, wrongful convictions, an unsolved crime, and Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.
There is a lot to unpack here. This is part one of two. In part two, we will go over the arrests of the suspects in her case, the trial and what came after. Online: CrimeoftheTruestKind.com Follow @crimeofthetruestkind Ticket link for our Live True Crime and Wine night at Off Cabot in Beverly, Mass on Thursday, Nov 9 https://bit.ly/truecrimewinenight
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Source Links (updating)
Weather in 1988
Towns in Boston
Marky Mark, Wildside
Marky Mark sang about Tiffany
Boston Research Center - Busing https://bostonresearchcenter.org/projects_files/eob/single-entry-busing.html#:~:text=Bused%20children%20were%20jeered%2C%20menaced,attend%20private%20and%20parochial%20schools
Boston Globe archives
Two boys shot https://www.proquest.com/bostonglobe/docview/294437350/fulltext/63CD372BFE904635PQ/11?accountid=9675
Foot patrols
Mayor Ray Flynn
Mayor Tom Menino
War on drugs https://www.vera.org/news/fifty-years-ago-today-president-nixon-declared-the-war-on-drugs
Just Say No
Nancy Reagan Just Say No
Opioids
The National Library of Medicine https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2622774/#:~:text=When%20OxyContin%20entered%20the%20market,in%20the%20management%20of%20pain.
The Crack Epidemic
Boston Gang Database
Darlene Tiffany Moore
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117541791/darlene-tiffany-moore https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2003/05/04/doubt-cast-over-tiffany-moore-verdict/DNG2X91YrFhvPkuNhIuvyK/story.html
Alice Moore