Read Whitey Bulger America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him To Justice Online
Authors: Kevin Cullen
Deborah Hussey in an undated photo. Steve Flemmi said that in 1985 he and Whitey killed Hussey, the daughter of Flemmi’s longtime companion, and buried her in a basement. Whitey denies it.
(Courtesy of Tom Hussey)
John McIntyre in an undated photo. A member of the crew that delivered a Whitey-sponsored weapons shipment to the IRA, McIntyre was killed by Whitey and Steve Flemmi in 1984 after they learned he was cooperating against them.
(Courtesy of the McIntyre family)
Cathy Greig and Whitey walking Nikki and Gigi in the summer of 1988 at a Dorchester playground, not far from the condominium in Quincy where they lived at the time. Whitey, who rarely drank, picked up a discarded beer can and tossed it in the trash.
(
Boston Globe
/ John Tlumacki)
The
Valhalla
in 1984, shortly after returning to port in Boston from a rendezvous off the coast of Ireland. The fishing trawler ferried seven tons of weapons to the Irish Republican Army after the founder of the IRA visited Whitey in Southie, saying that the organization needed guns.
(
Boston Globe
/ George Rizer)
Pat Nee in his native Ireland in 1984, awaiting arrival of weapons on the
Valhalla
. A onetime rival of Whitey turned criminal confederate, Nee broke with Whitey when he suspected he was an informant. He wrote a memoir that was bitterly critical of Whitey.
(Courtesy of Pat Nee)
The Donahues in 2008.
From left
: Shawn, Patricia, Michael Jr., and Tom. The government was ordered to pay them $6.3 million for the wrongful death of Michael Donahue. An appeals court overturned the award.
(Boston Globe
/ Pat Greenhouse)
Steve Flemmi testifying at Connolly’s murder trial in Miami in 2008. He said that he and Whitey paid kickbacks totaling around $235,000 to Connolly, who once joked that he was one of the gang.
(Associated Press / J. Pat Carter)
John Connolly in 2008, at a hearing on the eve of his trial in Miami for the 1982 murder of John Callahan. He was convicted and sentenced to forty years.
(Associated Press / Wilfredo Lee)
John Martorano in an undated photo. He served twelve years for twenty murders after agreeing to testify against Whitey, Steve Flemmi, and John Connolly.
(Courtesy of the Martorano family)
Anna Bjornsdottir playing with her cat outside her home in Reykja
vík
, Iceland, in 2011. The former Miss Iceland was paid two million dollars by the FBI for her tip leading to Whitey’s capture
(
Boston Globe
/ Bill Greene)
The Princess Eugenia, the Santa Monica complex where Whitey and Cathy Greig lived for fifteen years, hours after their arrest in June 2011. Their apartment is on the top floor, farthest to the right.
(Associated Press / David Zentz)