Pirate Skeletons Discovered In Shipwreck Off Cape Cod: Patch PM

FALMOUTH, MA — It's Wednesday, February 10. Here's what you should know this afternoon:

• Researchers found skeletons in the wreckage of Whydah, a ship that sank off the coast of Cape Cod in 1717.
• A man already serving multiple life sentences for a 2009 double murder was indicted in a 10-year-old Providence murder case.
• Celebrity chef Guy Fieri’s restaurant company is running a ghost kitchen out of a Merrimack Valley Bertucci’s store.

Scroll down for those and other stories Patch has been covering in Massachusetts today.

Wednesday's Top Story

At least six pirate skeletons were discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of Cape Cod, investigators with the Whydah Pirate Museum in Yarmouth said.

The remains were found from the wreck site of the Whydah, a legendary ship once captained by the infamous pirate Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy. The ship went down in 1717 off the coast of Wellfleet. Its wreckage was discovered in 1984 and has been the subject of several excavations over the last few decades.

Researchers told WHDH News Boston the skeletons were found in several large concretions and are being examined by underwater explorer Barry Clifford and his team of archeologists.

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Today’s Other Top Stories In Massachusetts

Charges In Decade-Old Cold Case: Investigators charged a Boston man in the 2011 killing of Steven Latimer in Providence during a drive-by shooting that left several other people injured. Nigel Nichols, 35, formerly of Mattapan, is already serving multiple life sentences for a 2009 double murder.

Just don’t ask for eggs: Celebrity chef Guy Fieri is running delivery-only restaurants out of several Massachusetts Bertucci's locations, including the one in North Andover. Ghost kitchens like Fieri's Flzvortown Kitchen" have increased in popularity since the start of the cornonavirus pandemic as restaurants wrestle with a downturn in business.

Lelling Is Leaving: U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Andrew Lelling said he will step down at the end of February. Lelling, who oversaw the prosecution of "Operation Varsity Blues" and state and Boston police overtime fraud, is following the common practice of resigning when a new administration moves into the Whit House.

By The Numbers

$27,605: That’s how much a former Eastern Bank employee is accused of stealing between Sept. 2017 and July 2018 from the account of a person who died in 2015. Materesa Jose, 53, pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges of theft of public funds and bank embezzlement.

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