Richard Murphy

Richard Murphy is a Boston native who was the prosecutor in both murder cases, “No.46 on the Greater Boston Hit List” and ”Is Divorce Worse Than Murder?” He is a graduate of Boston College High School;Univ.of Notre Dame;& Boston Univ. Law School. He served aboard ship in the U.S.Navy between college and law school and retired as a Commander in the Naval Reserves. As a champion boxer at Notre Dame he went on to become a National President of the ND alumni association. The father of nine children he wrote a weekly column “Murphy’s Law” for several Massachusetts papers in the 80’s & 90’s. He was featured in the Law section of Time magazine (1/7/66) shortly after law school graduation for winning a landmark civil liberty case. With Parkinson’s disease and a reverse shoulder replacement ruining his mediocre golf game he has decided In his eighties to try authoring. Receiving great feedback,he is now working on his fourth novel. His books are usually connected to interesting and entertaining and bizarre court cases.