It is a portrait of the gangster as a grumpy old man, hunkered down in a Santa Monica flat with his girlfriend. Neighbors liked them, but no one got close — or, rather, almost no one. And that was their undoing.
FBI agents and Los Angeles police arrested the infamous Boston crime boss and his longtime girlfriend, Catherine Greig, without incident at a Santa Monica, Calif., apartment building near the beach, ending a 16-year international manhunt.
In Whitey Bulger’s capture, there is finally justice for all. There is, of course, the critical justice for every daughter, every son, every sibling and every spouse of every one of the 19 or more victims that Bulger allegedly killed in his multi-decade, FBI-sanctioned reign of terror.
A Florida jury convicted retired agent John J. Connolly Jr. of second-degree murder for plotting with informants James “Whitey” Bulger and Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi to kill a potential witness against them 26 years ago.
Kevin Weeks, who went from gangster to government witness and spent five years and three months in prison for murder, recounts his life with one of Boston's most legendary crime figures.
Tim Connors, who was only a baby when his father was gunned down, wasn't swayed by the apology or the life sentence that Stephen Flemmi received for killing 10 people.
Lindsey Cyr, 64, of Weymouth, told the Globe that she and the former South Boston crime boss had a son, Douglas Glenn Cyr, who was born in 1967 and was healthy and active until he suddenly fell sick and died in 1973 of Reye’s Syndrome.
The FBI believe Whitey Bulger and Catherine Greig are traveling around the country, staying in inexpensive motels and sometimes renting apartments. They pay cash for everything.
Lining up Whitey Bulger as an informant was surely a coup in the FBI’s crusade against the local Mafia. But the arrangement would veer wildly off track.
Once-secret FBI documents, interviews with sources inside and outside law enforcement, and recent court testimony show Whitey Bulger deserves little credit for the fall of the Angiulo Mafia family.
The case against against Whitey Bulger marks a sea change in local law enforcement, an unprecedented coalition that has done much to overcome the ill will arising from Bulger’s role as an informant.
