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The Boston Police Department, operating on a tip, raided a butcher shop in South Boston co-owned by Bulger and two other Winter Hill members. Police officers found the victim hanging from a beef rack, having been severely tortured and held for more than six days.
FBI surveillance photo of Weeks (right) with Whitey Bulger (left) Weeks became a protégé to Bulger, who groomed him as his successor and treated him like a son. During the 1980s, Weeks operated several convenience stores and liquor marts in South Boston that served as fronts for the Winter Hill Gang.
In 1972, South Boston gang boss Donald Killeen was shot to death by Mullen gang enforcers Jimmy Mantville and Tommy King, outside of his home, in suburban Framingham, Massachusetts. The leadership of the Killeen faction then devolved to James J. "Whitey" Bulger.
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 ...
Born in South Boston in 1929, Bulger ran the notorious Winter Hill Gang throughout the 1970s and 1980s, which became the top Irish mob organisation in the city after beating its rivals in a gang war.
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 ...
A gangland war soon resulted, leading to a string of slayings throughout Boston and the surrounding suburbs. Several weeks following the Transit incident, Killeen enforcers Billy O'Sullivan and "Whitey" Bulger encountered Mullen member "Buddy" Roache, brother of future Police Commissioner Francis "Mickey" Roache, in a bar on Broadway in South ...
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 ...