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Cold Crimes of New England with Emily Sweeney

2025-04-30 19:00:00 2025-04-30 20:20:00 America/New_York Cold Crimes of New England with Emily Sweeney Join Boston Globe staff reporter Emily Sweeney as she delves into some of Boston's cold cases - the crimes, investigations, and new discoveries. Reading Public Library - Community Room (A & B)

Wednesday, April 30
7:00pm - 8:20pm

Add to Calendar 2025-04-30 19:00:00 2025-04-30 20:20:00 America/New_York Cold Crimes of New England with Emily Sweeney Join Boston Globe staff reporter Emily Sweeney as she delves into some of Boston's cold cases - the crimes, investigations, and new discoveries. Reading Public Library - Community Room (A & B)

Reading Public Library

Community Room (A & B)

Join Boston Globe staff reporter Emily Sweeney as she delves into some of Boston's cold cases - the crimes, investigations, and new discoveries.

Join Boston Globe staff reporter Emily Sweeney as she delves into some of Boston's cold cases, especially long-forgotten ones, with the hope that maybe someone will come forward with new information or evidence that can help investigators. Started in 2023, the Cold Case Files project has featured stories from across the Commonwealth and throughout the last 50 years. Tonight's program will focus on not only the crime itself, but also the subsequent investigations and new discoveries.

Emily Sweeney is a staff reporter at The Boston Globe. Her Blotter Tales column appears in the Metro section of the paper every Sunday and she recently launched the Cold Case Files, a new series and newsletter about unsolved murders. Her areas of expertise include history, crime, and technology, and she's the author of several nonfiction books, including Boston Organized Crime, Gangland Boston, and Dropkick Murphy: A Legendary Life. 

As a journalist Sweeney has been featured on many TV and radio programs, making appearances on BBC Radio, Court TV, the Travel Channel, History Channel, Science Channel, Beat the Press, Bloomberg Radio, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation, NESN, and other media outlets.

She most recently appeared as a guest expert in Bloody Boston, a two-part documentary series about organized crime in Boston, as well as the History Channel’s Gangland Chronicles show and the Netflix series How To Become a Mob Boss.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Reading Public Library.

Reading Public Library

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Phone: 781-944-0840

Hours
We're closed Sunday August 03 due to Closed on Sundays during the summer
Mon, Jul 28 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Tue, Jul 29 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Wed, Jul 30 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Thu, Jul 31 1:00PM to 9:00PM
Fri, Aug 01 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Sat, Aug 02 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Aug 03 Closed
(Closed on Sundays during the summer)


About the Library

We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals to engage fully. To ask questions about accessibility or request accommodations, please contact the library at rdgadmin@noblenet.org.

If the Reading Public schools are closed due to snow, all Children's programming will be canceled.

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