Emily SweeneyEmily Sweeney is a staff reporter at The Boston Globe. Her Blotter Tales column appears in the Metro section of the paper every Sunday and she recently launched the Cold Case Files, a new series and newsletter about unsolved murders. Sweeney is the athor of several nonfiction books, including Boston Organized Crime, Gangland Boston, and Dropkick Murphy: A Legendary Life.

Sweeney has been featured on many TV and radio programs, making appearances on Court TV, the Travel Channel, Science Channel, BBC Radio, Beat the Press, Bloomberg Radio, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation, NESN, and other media outlets.

She was most recently featured as a guest expert in Bloody Boston, a documentary series about organized crime in Boston, and she appears in Gangland Chronicles on the History Channel and the Netflix series How To Become a Mob Boss. To see more of her stories about organized crime, follow her on Facebook at facebook.com/bostonorganizedcrime. Twitter: @emilysweeney Instagram: @emilysweeney22 Threads: @emilysweeney22 Read More Read Less