Paulie McGonagle

Paul McGonagle (January 21, 1939 – November 1974) was an Irish-American mobster and leader of the Mullen Gang, a South Boston street crew involved in burglary and armed robbery.

Paul ("Paulie") McGonagle was the oldest of several brothers born to first generation Catholic immigrants from Ireland, and raised in South Boston. One of the brothers was Robert ("Bobby"). Paul and brother Donald ("Donnie", "Donny") were fraternal twins.

While in South Boston, he married Margaret Greig (born April 3, 1951), from East Boston, identical twin sister of Catherine Elizabeth Greig, wife of his brother Bobby. The Greig sisters had a younger brother David. McGonagle and Margaret moved into a home in suburban Quincy, Massachusetts, where she lived during their marriage. Sister-in-law Catherine later divorced Bobby before taking up withWinter Hill Gang leader James J. Bulger.

During the Killeen-Mullen gang war, McGonagle and Irish immigrant Patrick Nee successfully led the Mullens against the Killeen brothers' organization, which finally ended when the neighbourhood boss Donald Killeen was gunned down outside his suburban home in 1972. The leadership of the Killeen Gang then devolved on Whitey Bulger.

Paul's brother-in-law David was found mysteriously shot in Cape Cod, which was ruled a suicide.

Paul's younger brother Donny lived a law-abiding life and did not follow his brother into a life of organized crime. Donald, however, who shared a fleeting physical resemblance with his brother, was mistaken by Bulger to be Paul and was shot in the head, execution style, in 1971, (an alternate version of events, according to the opposing gang, is that Donald was shot in the face while driving, by another motorist - James "Whitey" Bulger) during the Killeen-Mullen gang war. The FBI stated on their wanted fugitive poster of Catherine Greig that one of the aliases she was known to have used in 1995 before she fled with Bulger was "Catherine McGonagle", taking the last name of her slain brother-in-law as her own after going on the run with Bulger.

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