Garriola fired off a quick text to Boston: Looking good, standby. Then Whitey Bulger himself stepped out of the apartment in his white hat and took the elevator down to the garage. Bulger later described the scene in vivid detail in a letter to author Michael Esslinger, which was shared with the authors of this book:.
I could see my locker. I noticed that the door was hanging off. What first caught my eye was that I saw a few pieces of colored tape on the cement as if to mark positions like on a stage. As I started walking toward my locker, a light was shined on me and quite a few men in full combat gear and armed with M4 Carbines — fully automatic machine guns and a couple point Glock handguns — took aim at me.
The agents demanded Bulger get on his knees. Sixteen years on the run, millions in law enforcement spent, and all had come to this moment: a deadly standoff over whether Whitey would get his pants dirty. But cornered with no chance to escape, Bulger moved two steps to the side and put his hands up. Bulger captured. Standby for Catherine. Catherine walked to the door and turned the knob slowly.
She opened the door and then let out an exasperated sigh. May 23, am Updated May 23, am. Teahan phoned Garriola and brought him up to speed.
Bulger never wanted to be taken alive. He kept his stash of 30 firearms left in his Santa Monica apartment and a mannequin in the window as a decoy. Courtesy of the author Bond went down to his office, where the agent showed him photos of Whitey and Catherine. In the garage, Bulger was surrounded by FBI agents and local police officers. Greig was also captured and, in March , she pleaded guilty to conspiracy to harbor a fugitive, conspiracy to commit identity fraud and identity fraud.
In June , she was sentenced to 8 years in prison. Jury selection in Bulger's trial began in early June Bulger faced a count indictment, including money laundering, extortion, drug dealing, corrupting FBI and other law-enforcement officials and participating in 19 murders. He was also charged with federal racketeering for allegedly running a criminal enterprise from to On August 12, , after a two-month trial, a jury of eight men and four women deliberated for five days and found Bulger guilty on 31 counts, including federal racketeering, extortion, conspiracy and 11 of the 19 murders.
They found he was not guilty of 7 murders and could not reach a verdict on one murder. Bulger was sentenced to two life sentences plus five years in prison on November 13, According to the Chicago Tribune , U. District Judge Denise Casper told Bulger that "The scope, the callousness, the depravity of your crimes are almost unfathomable," during his sentencing hearing. On October 30, , at around am, Bulger was found unresponsive at a United States Penitentiary in Hazleton, West Virginia, where he was recently transferred.
While Bulger was a distinguished criminal boss in the Boston mob, his younger brother, William Michael "Billy" Bulger born , built a distinguished career in politics, becoming the longest-running president of the Massachusetts senate.
He was also president of the University of Massachusetts but was forced to resign in for refusing to answer questions about his fugitive brother in a congressional hearing. Before Bulger ran off as a fugitive with his various mistresses, he was involved with former fashion model and waitress Lindsey Cyr, who eventually became his common-law wife in the s.
They had one son, Douglas Glen Cyr born , but the boy died at age six from Reye's Syndrome, after experiencing a severe allergic reaction to aspirin.
When Douglas died, Cyr claimed that Bulger was devastated. Of the various movies and documentaries that were made about or inspired by Bulger, Martin Scorsese's character Frank Costello, played by Jack Nicholson , in The Departed was loosely based on Bulger's life of crime.
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Albert DeSalvo is best known for confessing to be the "Boston Strangler," who killed 13 women in Boston in the early s. Henry Hill was a member of the Lucchese crime family who became a federal informant, inspiring the Martin Scorsese movie 'Goodfellas. But the details of Bulger's life on the run could provide more embarrassment for the agency if it emerges he had been there for some time.
The Pakistani ambassador to the US recently quipped: "If Whitey Bulger can live undetected by American police for so long, why can't Osama bin Laden live undetected by Pakistani authorities? The last sighting of Bulger was in London in , during his travels through Europe, leaving money in deposit boxes to support his time as a fugitive. The sighting in London led to Scotland Yard's involvement in the hunt and Met detectives discovered one of his many deposit boxes in the security vaults of a bank near Piccaddilly Circus.
It was these deposit boxes, private investigators told the Guardian, which allowed him to evade justice for so long. Sightings four years ago in Spain and the Canary Islands led the US attorney in Boston to issue an international arrest warrant and a US justice department investigators visited Alicante only to find the trail had gone cold. The sightings in California continued. This week the FBI said there had been "multiple leads" including one at a beauty salon in Fountain Valley.
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