Gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger found dead in prison
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46036058
Infamous Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger has been found dead in a US federal prison in West Virginia.
The 89-year-old was discovered unresponsive in his cell at the maximum security facility shortly after being transferred there from a Florida jail.
US media report the former mob boss was killed on Tuesday morning at the penitentiary.
The life of Bulger, who was convicted in 2013 of 11 murders, inspired several films.
He was captured in California in 2011 after a 16-year manhunt.
The former leader of South Boston's Winter Hill gang inspired the film Black Mass featuring Johnny Depp, and The Departed, which won the Academy Award for best picture in 2006.
His death comes on the same day that he was transferred to the Hazelton penitentiary in West Virginia, which houses 1,385 inmates, according to reports.
An inmate with mafia ties is now under investigation for Bulger's killing, three sources briefed on the incident told the Boston Globe.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46036058
Infamous Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger has been found dead in a US federal prison in West Virginia.
The 89-year-old was discovered unresponsive in his cell at the maximum security facility shortly after being transferred there from a Florida jail.
US media report the former mob boss was killed on Tuesday morning at the penitentiary.
The life of Bulger, who was convicted in 2013 of 11 murders, inspired several films.
He was captured in California in 2011 after a 16-year manhunt.
The former leader of South Boston's Winter Hill gang inspired the film Black Mass featuring Johnny Depp, and The Departed, which won the Academy Award for best picture in 2006.
His death comes on the same day that he was transferred to the Hazelton penitentiary in West Virginia, which houses 1,385 inmates, according to reports.
An inmate with mafia ties is now under investigation for Bulger's killing, three sources briefed on the incident told the Boston Globe.