After running afoul of neighborhood Irish Mob boss Whitey Bulger, Litif was murdered by the Winter Hill Gang in 1980.
During the 1950s, Litif married an Irish American woman named Anna (nee Duggan)[3] They had 2 children, a daughter and a son.
His reputation as an earner made him popular with South Boston's criminal elite, and at one point police believed he was essentially running the neighborhood gambling rackets, taking in as much as $20,000 a week.
Before 1976, when he began associating with the Winter Hill Gang, little is known about Louis, except that he was the leader of a large scale sports gambling operation.
Partnered with a fellow bookie known as "Joe the Barber," the operation was one of the biggest moneymakers for neighborhood boss Donald Killeen and his successors.
According to former South Boston mob informant Kevin Weeks, who was then the bouncer in the Triple O's saloon, He wasn't a big guy, maybe five seven and 185 pounds, of Arab descent.
He had a wife and a couple of kids, and a three decker townhouse on East Broadway and H. I was friendly with his daughter Luanne, who was a few years younger than me.
In 1975, he was arrested and convicted for pistol whipping an individual with a .357 Magnum which he carried in the waistband of his pants and pulled out whenever he had the urge.
[4]According to Kevin Weeks Litif began stealing from his partners in the bookmaking operation and using the money to traffic cocaine.
According to Weeks, But a month or so later, Louie made things more complicated again when he got into an argument during another cardgame, this time with his partner, Jimmy Matera.
According to Kevin Weeks, Conrad, who was about fifty, was a nervous wreck over what he had seen, so Louie wined and dined him in Las Vegas.
He ended up hiding him so well that thanks to the law in Canada limiting their access to search for bodies, the DEA and the State Police couldn't find him.
[5]As Robert Conrad's daughter later recalled in court, when she went to the FBI searching for answers about her father's disappearance, John Connolly told her bluntly what had happened.
Two decades later, the Conrad family was able to produce a letter from the carrier stating that the missing persons case had been resolved thanks to the efforts of, "Agent Connolly."
One week before his murder, Litif entered South Boston's Triple O's saloon and told an outraged Bulger that he was also going to kill Joe, whom he accused of stealing money from the bookmaking operation.
Shortly after that, a week or so before my wedding, Louie was found stuffed into a garbage bag in the trunk of his car, which had been dumped in the South End.
[4]In 1982, South Boston drug dealer Edward Brian Halloran approached the FBI and claimed to have witnessed the murder of Louis Litif.
He stated that he had dropped Litif off that night and watched Bulger and Flemmi stab and shoot the bookie to death.
A week or so after Litif's death, Boston Herald reporter Paul Corsetti began researching an article about the murder and Bulger's suspected involvement in it.
After several days of reporting the story, he was approached by a man who told him, "I'm Jim Bulger and if you continue to write shit about me, I'm going to blow your fucking head off.
A couple days later, Jimmy told me about the scene with the cop and was glad to hear how uncomfortable he'd made Corsetti.