Further notes on Maurice ‘Mom’ Boucher

Now that Maurice ‘Mom’ Boucher is dead, journalists are looking back at his life. Global talks to crime writer Julian Sher about Boucher’s ‘wave of terror’. Maria Mourani has a very brief piece in the Journal about the formation of gangs and how Boucher came to dominate them, and in La Presse, Yves Boisvert reminds us that, although Boucher’s dead, the Hells are still thriving. Radio-Canada considers Boucher’s blacklist of people he hoped to have bumped off, including onetime police chief Jacques Duchesneau, PQ public safety minister Serge Ménard, and crime writer Michel Auger, since deceased.

Afterthought: At one time, who would’ve bet on Mom Boucher and Vito Rizzuto both dying of natural causes?