Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Boston Gangster’s Rise, Fall, and Comeback | Johnny Hickey
08 May 2025
A one-time street kid from Boston, these days Johnny is a celebrated filmmaker, actor, and anti opiate crusader.Jonny's social media is @thejohnnyhickey Johnny's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejohnnyhickey/Johnnys IMDb https: //www.imdb.com/name/nm2485488/Johnny's YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@thejohnnyhickey?si=C_0onCMd-xIYrFMQOXY MORONS: https://g.co/kgs/qvakki HABITUAL: Habitual https: //g.co/kgs/CXVEDd https://youtube.com/@thejohnnyhickey?si=Dt3AfaJeCdxb3amFFollow Matthew Cox on all socials!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/insidetruecrime/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mattcoxtruecrimeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/MatthewCoxTrueCrime?mibextid=LQQJ4dDo you want to be a guest? Fill out the form: https://forms.gle/5H7FnhvMHKtUnq7k7Send me an email here: [email protected] you want a custom "con man" painting to shown up at your doorstep every month? Subscribe to my Patreon: https: //www.patreon.com/insidetruecrimeDo you want a custom painting done by me? Check out my Etsy Store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/coxpopartListen to my True Crime Podcasts anywhere: https://anchor.fm/mattcox Check out my true crime books! Shark in the Housing Pool: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0851KBYCFBent: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BV4GC7TMIt's Insanity: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KFYXKK8Devil Exposed: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TH1WT5GDevil Exposed (The Abridgment): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1070682438The Program: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0858W4G3KBailout: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bailout-matthew-cox/1142275402Dude, Where's My Hand-Grenade?: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXNFHBDF/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1678623676&sr=1-1Checkout my disturbingly twisted satiric novel!Stranger Danger: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSWQP3WXIf you would like to support me directly, I accept donations here:Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/MattCox69Cashapp: $coxcon69 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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All my dreams deterred from ever happening. So I said, I'm just going to become the best criminal that I've ever seen. And I just put together these crews of kids. And I would go into the raves now. Now they're fist fighting. He doesn't know that I'm there. So I kind of come up around him and I suck at him. Oh, these kids are scared now because I got their boy.
And then boom, in the back of my head. And I woke up seven days later in Boston Medical Center. They threw me off an 80-foot cliff. So I ripped the morphine out of my arm. And I'm like, I don't want this no more. So I went cold turkey. And they read that. And they read it out loud in the courts, all the people who were like, Mr. Hickey fell 80 feet, refused all narcotics for 30 days.
He's like, that says something. So you know what, Mr. Hickey? I think you're all set. I don't think you're going to be on drug court for the next two years.
Hey, this is Matt Cox, and I am here with Johnny Hickey, and he is a filmmaker, actor, ex-con who's got a really interesting true crime story that actually leads up to him becoming a filmmaker. And we're going to get into it, so check out the interview. Let's start at your childhood, like you were born in Boston. Yeah.
So it was born in Boston, but specifically Charlestown. So if you don't know Charlestown, the section, it'd be like if you compared Hell's Kitchen of New York, that would be the Hell's Kitchen of Boston. It's this square mile on the north side of Boston, similar to South Boston as far as like it was heavy Irish, blue-collar community.
And Charlestown, if you've seen the town with Ben Affleck, which is over here.
I was just going to say that's about what I know.
So that's a popular crime drama that's
based off of the guys a couple of my uncles included that were just serial bank robbers they were crews of these guys in charlestown there was really no mob boss there like so like whitey bulge was at the south boston like mob boss and winter hills which is some of all these charlestown was just like crews of guys that were smoking angel dust when i was growing up like you know my uncles and stuff smoking angel dust doing blow and robbing banks and killing each other like at a like
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