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Three men charged in the 2018 prison killing of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger have reached plea deals with prosecutors, according to court papers filed Monday. The plea deals ...
A former mafia hitman who was already serving life in prison was sentenced to 25 years in custody on Friday for the killing of notorious Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger in his prison cell in ...
Fotios "Freddy" Geas -- the ex-Mafia enforcer already serving a life sentence -- was given an additional 25 years by a judge Friday for bludgeoning New England crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger to ...
James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger Jr. (/ ˈ b ʌ l dʒ ər / ⓘ; September 3, 1929 – October 30, 2018) was an American organized crime boss who led the Winter Hill Gang, an Irish Mob group based in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, northwest of Boston.
An inmate was sentenced to more than four years Thursday for his role in the 2018 fatal bludgeoning of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger in a troubled West Virginia federal prison.
At 8:20 a.m. on October 30, the 89-year-old Bulger [5] was found unresponsive in the prison. Bulger was in a wheelchair and had been beaten to death by multiple inmates armed with a sock-wrapped padlock and a shiv. His eyes had nearly been gouged out and his tongue almost cut off. [6] [7] [8] This was the third homicide at the prison in a 40 ...
The 89-year-old's murder took place hours after he had been transferred from a prison in Florida. At the time of Bulger's death, Geas was serving a life term for the 2003 murders of Genovese crime ...
In 1989, Massachusetts organized crime figure James J. "Whitey" Bulger, who had befriended Carnes while on Alcatraz, paid for his body to be exhumed and reburied on land in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. [7] Bulger reportedly bought a lavish $4,000 bronze casket and paid for a car to transport Carnes' remains from Missouri to Oklahoma.