Article: Victim's son wants to grill mob hit man on dad's killing.(News)

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The Boston Herald
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May 15, 2004
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Byline: J.M. LAWRENCE

Southie school teacher Billy O'Brien Jr. has spent three decades wondering why hit man John V. Martorano killed his father in a spray of bullets along Morrissey Boulevard in 1973.

In less than two weeks, he may get to ask the killer himself.

"Nobody's ever given me a straight answer," O'Brien said yesterday. "I'm just looking for a little something."

O'Brien said he wants to ask the Winter Hill Gang hit man on May 27, when U.S. District Court Judge Mark Wolf sentences Martorano under a plea deal giving the gunslinger 12 1/2 to 15 years. With good time, he may be out late next year.

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