Head of the Winter Hill Gang in Somerville, Massachusetts, a city located directly north of Boston, was American organized crime figure James Joseph “Whitey” Bulger Jr.
Bulger died on October 30, 2018, and he was born on September 3, 1929. Bulger left the Boston region on December 23, 1994, and went into hiding after learning from John Connolly about a potential RICO accusation.
Throughout that time, Bulger eluded capture. Following his 2011 arrest, federal authorities tried Bulger for 19 murders using the grand jury testimony of Kevin Weeks and other former criminal accomplices.
Bulger vehemently denied being an informant, but the FBI found evidence dating back to 1975, despite his denials.
Bulger disclosed information on the internal dynamics of the Patriarca crime family and his rivals in the Boston and Providence-based Italian-American Mafia. Bulger’s FBI handler Connolly saw that the Winter Hill Gang was effectively ignored in return.
Murder Of Whitey Bulger
Reportedly, after his wheelchair was removed from CCTV, notorious US criminal James “Whitey” Bulger was battered to death and had his eye gouged out in prison.
The mob boss, who oversaw Boston’s notorious South Side, is rumored to have been “whacked” after only arriving at the West Virginia high-security prison USP Hazelton.
A source stated that three inmates pushed a wheelchair-bound Bulger to a spot where surveillance cameras could not observe him when he was in the general population.
After beating him with a lock in a sock, they allegedly tried to gouge out his eyes before beating him again.
The 89-year-old, who was discovered dead yesterday, had been given a life sentence after being found guilty of at least 11 murders.
