Whitey Bulger no longer a threat to anyone. The Globe reports he was murdered.
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Good News
By StillFromDorchester
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 1:00pm
One less scumbag in the world is a good thing
Murder is never good news
By Bob Leponge
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 1:31pm
It doesn't matter whether the victim was a good guy or a scumbag.
The murder thing is not news at all
By anon
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 1:45pm
It is an unsubstantiated rumor. Go back and read the source of it: body leaves the prison, someone says "murder last night" with no evidence, others repeat it.
90 years old, not in great health, stressed by move. bye!
Welp
By adamg
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 3:08pm
The Globe says it murder, in a story by Shelley Murphy and Kevin Cullen, and they, more than anybody else, would know.
There are stories on the wire
By anon
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 6:12pm
There are stories on the wire that quote unnamed prison sources that hat he was beaten beyond recognition.
https://metro.co.uk/2018/10
By anon
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 6:14pm
https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/30/mob-boss-whitney-bu...
According to the NYT: https:
By anon
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 6:57pm
According to the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/obituaries/whit...
Cullen would definitely know....
By Doug1001
Wed, 10/31/2018 - 8:08pm
"A popular Boston Globe columnist was placed on administrative leave after allegations that he embellished accounts of the Boston Marathon bombings."
Murder is so such a harsh term...
By Smart Arse
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 8:49pm
How about Justice. Execution.
You don't murder a piece of shit. You dispose of it.
I posted my comment earlier
By StillFromDorchester
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 9:08pm
And only had info that he was dead, Now that I hear he was beaten with a padlock and had his eye gouged out, I say again.. good.
This isn't a pot dealer in prison it's a serial killing monster and it looks like he got a little gangsters justice. Good riddance. When he was pulling the teeth and cutting off the hands of his victims i'm sure he wasn't worrying about their families.
You're right murder isn't good, but sometimes you just shrug your shoulders and say , oh well.
Yeah but he escaped the
By Kinopio
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 1:40pm
Yeah but he escaped the worlds greatest punishment: having to live in the hellhole that is West Virginia.
sing it, John Denver
By Ishmael Jones
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 3:46pm
Almost heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads
Mark Strong (Merlin) in the 2nd Kingsman flick..
By Friartuck
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 4:43pm
Does a nice rendition of this just prior to being blown to bits...
And you've been there, right?
By merlinmurph
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 6:34pm
!
Have you
By Anon
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 7:15pm
Ever been to WV?
Beautiful place
By Parkwayne
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 7:27pm
Probably too many poor people for you too feel comfortable there though.
So I take it West Virginia is
By dotratfromwayback
Wed, 10/31/2018 - 6:24am
So I take it West Virginia is on your list of ahit hole states? It's funny how your views parallel Trump's views.
The only trouble is, however,
By mplo
Wed, 10/31/2018 - 8:15am
that there'll always be other scumbags to take their place, if one gets the drift.
Feds have some explaining to do
By anon
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 1:10pm
Let's examine the facts a ninety year old man is suddenly transferred to a new prison where he is murdered the day before a rally which will be covered by all Boston media. The Feds must be calling the Saudi secret police to come up with a plausible story. Whitey was a stone cold killer but his friends in law enforcement and politics were just as guilty
Not sure if trolling...
By Coyote137
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 1:17pm
or mentally ill.
Like I always say
By Will LaTulippe
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 1:45pm
When I read about one of today's gangsters saying "(expletive) the police": They're missing the point, because Whitey became one of the best ever at his horrible calling precisely because he bought cops, federal ones at that.
lol
By anon
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 3:01pm
some equally old mobster probably saw him walking and decided to relive the glory days and take out a guy who snitched on the mafia for years.
Exactly
By anon
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 4:33pm
"Don't call me Whitey" Bulger's alleged purpose as an FBI informant was to inform on the Mafia. They've been waiting for a long time to take Whitey out, and the opportunity finally came. Good riddance.
Sure, but the government was
By anon
Wed, 10/31/2018 - 7:23am
Sure, but the government was well aware of the fact that other gangsters in prison might want Whitey dead, and made a decision to move him to a prison where he got killed. That doesn't make you even a little bit curious about their decision process? Like maybe Whitey knew some things about the FBI and everyone knows he's not above snitching, so maybe it's better to house him with some mafia types for a little while?
follow up
By anon
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 4:43pm
TMZ is reporting that he was wheeled in his chair into a corner of room with poor security camera coverage and was beaten to death and had his eyes gouged out by a group of three men.
Good points, anon.
By mplo
Wed, 10/31/2018 - 8:32am
This:
is true enough, anon. Most of Whitey Bulger's victims, however, weren't so innocent either.
The movie
By ChrisInEastie
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 1:28pm
About his time on the run through his incarceration just got its ending and one hell of a plot twist. Who gets to it first: Damon, an Affleck, a Wahlberg, or Depp?
Wahlberg is a violent
By Carty
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 1:43pm
Wahlberg is a violent psychopath, he'd seem like a natural.
He's not dead
By anon
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 1:45pm
He's probably on his way back to Southie or Santa Monica, after having slipped a couple mil to some prison guards.
Does Howie Carr ...
By jmeltzer
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 2:15pm
have an alibi?
Yeah, he was seen at a Geoff Diehl rally
By Coyote137
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 2:26pm
waving a confederate flag.
Dats
By HolyMolyCodPiece
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 2:40pm
Mean you meany
Not a Shiva rally?
By jmeltzer
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 4:40pm
Oh, Howie.
Howie is a Diehl guy, and humiliated Shiva on the air
By Smart Arse
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 8:53pm
I read (here, I thought? this is the only news site I really read) that Howie blindsided Shiva by asking him on the air about his domestic battery arrest.
And I heard Howie shilling for Diehl one time on his show. Yeah I admit it.... I was listening between traffic updates on WBZ.
Seriously,
By jmeltzer
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 4:41pm
I was almost tempted to tune in to Howie today to hear him eulogize Whitey.
Almost.
Well that's a relief.
By NotWhitey
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 2:28pm
Well that's a relief.
Did he know where the Gardner
By anon
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 2:38pm
Did he know where the Gardner paintings were? Hmmmm
That's common knowledge
By Parkwayne
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 3:21pm
Where they were... right there in the Gardner.
It's the question of where they are now that's the real puzzler.
Where's the champagne?
By adamg
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 4:01pm
WBZ: Widow Of Man Killed By Whitey Bulger: ‘I’d Like To Open Up A Champagne Bottle And Celebrate’.
Also: Whitey Bulger Killed: ‘Informants Don’t Do Well In Prison’.
Who can we thank?
By anon
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 4:17pm
Who can we thank?
maybe Freddy Geas
By hux
Wed, 10/31/2018 - 8:26am
From West Springfield.
What goes around comes around I guess?
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/10/30/fredd...
Thrown in general population in wheelchair?
By O-FISH-L
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 4:19pm
The UK Daily Mail reports he was placed in general population in a wheelchair and quickly wheeled away by mafia members, beaten with a "lock in a sock" and eyes gouged out. Unreal if true.
He deserved the death penalty years ago but care and custody of inmates is the main responsibility at a prison or even a police station.
I have little faith in the FBI but obviously there's much more to Whitey being moved and killed within a day. If we ever get the true story (not the Cullen version) it will be interesting.
If Whitey was murdered, President Trump should fire the head of the Bureau of Prisons and others for allowing such a high profile prisoner to be killed, as much as Whitey deserved it.
Appeal pending? Convictions vacated?
By David Fitzgerald
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 4:34pm
I wholeheartedly agree. I've not a shred of sympathy for Bulger, but if any good can happen from this it might be renewed examination of disgraceful conditions in this prison. Also, do the convictions get vacated if there are any appeals pending a la Hernandez? That'll get people screaming again about how a dead man is getting off easy. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/10/30/james...
Why anyone would make a movie
By anon
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 5:02pm
or watch a movie about this foul POS is beyond me. I'm a white guy who went to school with kids from his southie neighborhood and they were all the worse kind of scumbags. We called them Southie Rats. The worse bullies and assholes in the school. To this day I despise them, although I smh wondering what kind of family environment could produce such nastiness.
Read "All Souls"
By Miaow
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 10:47pm
And maybe you'll learn more about what it was like to grow up there.
I grew up socio-economically similar to them
By anon
Wed, 10/31/2018 - 5:47pm
And in the city, just another neighborhood. I don't need to learn anything from that book or a movie.
Bullies generally come from families where
By mplo
Wed, 10/31/2018 - 8:44am
bullying is rampant and/or encouraged, or they come from families who simply can't or won't manage their children properly when they're growing up, and/or don't care how their children turn out. Bullies, like their victims, often don't turn out so well, either.
Natural cause of death
By The Fox 915
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 6:25pm
Bulger died of natural causes, natural to his line of work.
Whitey's gone to hell
By anon
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 7:14pm
A jury of his peers sentenced him to life in prison. It appears that a 90 year old wheelchair bound was tortured and murdered as the Feds stood by. If his lawyers have filed his appeal are his convictions vacated similar to Aaron Hernandez murder convictions. Shouldn't the FBI recuse themselves from this investigation because of their past corrupt dealings with organized crime in Boston.
good riddance - enjoy the slow burn.
By Roztonian
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 9:08pm
Good riddance - enjoy the slow burn.
Make no mistake - Jim Bulger was pure evil to the core.
I'm still surprised he wasn't killed on the streets before fleeing town.
hopefully, the families of his victims can take some comfort in this news.
Bill and Jack will be filing a wrongful death suit in 3, 2, 1
I hope he died in absolute fear
By anon
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 9:35pm
And I hope he suffered all night.
I want to see the video.
Murderous scum that lived by the and died by the sword.
Someone should talk to Cadillac Frank
By Bill
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 9:42pm
Franks co-defendant in his last murder trial was in same prison. How does an 82 year old in poor health goto gen-pop? My theory he was writing a tell all that would bring the FBI and other government to its knees, and now his conviction does get over turned.
Am I sorry that Whitey came to this end?
By MC Slim JB
Wed, 10/31/2018 - 1:48am
No, not in my guts. Does it trouble me that this was allowed to happen under the aegis of our prison system? Yes, absolutely, in my rational self. I'd say, "Burn in hell, evil man", but I don't believe in hell. And I think being brought to justice under the rule of law, and serving the sentence handed down under those laws, is what should be.
Some atavistic part of me wants to enjoy his purportedly gruesome fate, but my rational belief in our justice system overrules that. He should have lived out his days in a tiny cell in a max-security prison, subject to the verdict of a society that understands that imposing a death sentence, or looking the other way when vigilante justice is imposed, doesn't serve our highest moral values.
Yes, fuck that guy. Who should feel regret for his painful death, given the heinous suffering and ruin that he inflicted on our city? Still, I more strongly believe that eye-for-an-eye justice (sorry, no joke intended) is barbaric, and still want to believe that we Americans are not yet barbarians.
You want to make people regret capital crimes? Keep them in prison, and make them eat prison food to the end of their days. Whitey got off too easy.
The fact that Whitey Bulger met such a grisly end,
By mplo
Wed, 10/31/2018 - 11:07pm
however, is not the least bit surprising. As a matter of fact, in a way, it had been a long time coming. He was an extremely nasty, dangerous piece of work, supported and coddled by the FBI, and by certain elements in the South Boston community. One could easily say that at least Whitey Bulger is no longer at large and killing ordinary citizens, but at the same time I agree that execution, even of deadly criminals like Whitey Bulger, is not the way to go.
I wonder if we'll hear some
By Chris77
Wed, 10/31/2018 - 7:47am
I wonder if we'll hear some reaction from Knuckles.
https://cbsboston.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/chri...
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/08/13/chris-nilan...
Is "serial-killing" an
By anon
Wed, 10/31/2018 - 2:10pm
Is "serial-killing" an appropriate description? That suggests someone who kills randomly for the sake of killing. Whitey's violence was a means to and end.
At first, I was going to go with "mass murderer"
By adamg
Wed, 10/31/2018 - 5:15pm
But that implies somebody who kills a number of people at once, so I figured "serial" would do, since he killed a lot of people in, well, a series.
Yup.
By mplo
Wed, 10/31/2018 - 11:11pm
This:
is something that I tend to agree with.
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