On the morning of June 28, 1978, five men were found shot to death in the basement of the Blackfriars Pub on Summer Street in Boston. One of the victims was Charles Magarian, a 48-year-old man from North Andover. The bodies showed execution-style wounds to the head from a 12 gauge shotgun and a .25 caliber automatic pistol; investigators believed there were two shooters.

Police reported small amounts of cocaine and marijuana at the scene and $15,000 in an open safe, leading them to conclude robbery was unlikely and that the killings were tied to a drug deal gone wrong involving several kilograms of cocaine. Suspicion centered on organized crime links to the Winter Hill Gang and the Patriarca crime family; James J. Whitey Bulger, Stephen Flemmi, and Nicholas Femia were named as persons of interest in media accounts.

Two men, Robert J. Italiano and William N. Ierardi, were tried in 1979 but were acquitted after a 27-day trial. The Blackfriars Massacre remains officially unsolved. Does anyone have information about Charles Magarian, his movements in 1978, or connections that could help explain why he was at the pub that night?