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Sammy White's Brighton Bowl, or simply Sammy White's, was a bowling alley in the Brighton section of Boston, Massachusetts. It was named after and owned by famed Red Sox catcher, Sammy White and featured lanes of both standard Ten-Pin and Candlepin bowling, the latter being the more popular style in New England. The bowling alley is most remembered for an infamous quadruple murder that occurred there in 1980. Sammy White's closed its doors in 1986. A second Sammy White's bowling alley was on the V.F.W. Parkway near the Boston/Dedham line. It closed in the mid-1980s. Sammy White also owned the Alpine Lanes, a ten-pin establishment, in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. == The murders == On the night of September 22, 1980, during a robbery that resulted in the theft of $4,800, four employees were brutally bludgeoned and shot execution style. Found at the scene was a bloody bowling pin determined to be the weapon used to bludgeon the victims.〔Globe Staff. News, Boston Globe, May 17, 1981.〕 Three died at the scene, and the fourth on the way to the hospital. The victims were found a short time after Dyer left the scene that same morming when an employee came in and discovered the open safe and contacted the police.〔Crocket, Douglas S. and Linscott, Seymour R. "4 Bound, Executed at Brighton Bowl", Boston Globe, September 22, 1980.〕 After an investigation, the police arrested cab driver Bryan A. Dyer of Somerville. Dyer had worked at Sammy White's in 1973. During the trial, witnesses testified that in the days following the murders Dyer had paid off an overdue car loan as well as prepaid three months rent at the YMCA where he had been living.〔Associated Press. "Mass. High Court Upholds 2 Murder Convictions", Boston Globe, July 13, 1983.〕 Dyer was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for all four murders. The bowling alley murders brought new attention to the question of Capital Punishment in Massachusetts.〔Flanagan, Newman. Editorial, Boston Globe, October 31, 1982.〕 In 1982, a ballot referendum legalizing the death penalty in Massachusetts passed and was signed into law by the outgoing governor, Edward J. King.〔Blake, Andrew. "Death Penalty Now Law", Boston Globe, December 23, 1985.〕 In 1984, the law was struck down by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court as unconstitutional.〔Harvey, Joseph M. "Mass. Death Penalty Ruled Illegal", Boston Globe, October 19, 1984.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sammy White's Brighton Bowl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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