Whitey Bulger (death)
Notorious Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger was beaten to death hours after arriving at a West Virginia federal prison. Fotios 'Freddy' Geas was charged. Bulger had been an FBI informant for decades.
On October 30, 2018, James 'Whitey' Bulger, 89, was beaten to death at USP Hazelton in West Virginia. He had arrived at the prison just hours before, after being transferred from a facility in Florida.
Bulger, the notorious Boston crime boss who was also a longtime FBI informant, was found in his cell. He had been beaten with a lock stuffed in a sock and his eyes had been reportedly disfigured.
Fotios 'Freddy' Geas, a Mafia hitman, was charged with the murder. Geas reportedly despised informants. Questions arose about why the 89-year-old Bulger was transferred to a high-security facility.
Bulger had been on the FBI's Most Wanted list for 16 years before being captured in Santa Monica, California in 2011. His story was depicted in the film 'Black Mass' starring Johnny Depp.
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