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James Joseph " Whitey " Bulger Jr. ( / ˈbʌldʒər /; September 3, 1929 – October 30, 2018) was an American organized crime boss who led the Winter Hill Gang in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, a city directly northwest of Boston. [2] [3] On December 23, 1994, Bulger fled the Boston area and went into hiding after ...
William Bulger was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and is the third of six children in the family, and younger brother of former mob boss James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger Jr. (1929–2018). Bulger's father worked as a union laborer and occasional longshoreman; he lost his arm in an industrial accident and the family was reduced to poverty.
Mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger (right) and lieutenant Stephen Flemmi. During the 1970s, the gang's most prominent members were Howie Winter, John Martorano, James J. Bulger, Stephen Flemmi, Joseph McDonald and James Sims. The Winter Hill Gang was quite proficient at murdering rival mobsters in order to take over their rackets.
Three inmates charged in the violent killing of notorious Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger while imprisoned with him in West Virginia have accepted plea agreements, court filings show.
The Justice Department has still not shed any light on how Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger ended up in the general population of one of the nation’s most violent prisons.
Kevin Weeks. Kevin Weeks (born March 21, 1956) is an American former mobster and longtime friend and mob lieutenant to Whitey Bulger, the infamous boss of the Winter Hill Gang, a crime family based in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts . After his arrest and imprisonment in 1999, he became a cooperating witness.
Updated May 13, 2024 at 6:45 PM. FBI via AP. Three federal inmates accused of killing notorious Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger while he was incarcerated have agreed to a plea and to ...
Blackfriars Massacre. Coordinates: 42.3535°N 71.0580°W. The 1978 Blackfriars Massacre, [1] [2] also known as the Blackfriars murders, [3] is an unsolved Irish Mob and/or Italian-American Mafia massacre that occurred on June 28, 1978, in the Blackfriars Pub in Downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Four criminals known to the police and a former ...