In letters to the daughter of a former prison guard, James 'Whitey' Bulger lamented his failing health but said he wanted to be alive when his girlfriend got out of prison, the Boston Globe reports
In letters to the daughter of a former prison guard, James"Whitey" Bulger lamented his failing health but said he wanted to be alive when his girlfriend got out of prison, the Boston Globe reported Tuesday.
Bulger, leader of an Irish mob gang from South Boston and an FBI informant for many years, was killed in a federal prison in West Virginia last year hours after he was transferred from a facility in Florida. He was 89.The Globe gained access to some of the letters Bulger sent to Candace Lind, whose father ran the prison laundry at another prison -- Alcatraz -- while Bulger was there in the 1950s and '60s.
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