Whitey Bulger

@Former Organized Crime Figure, Family and Family

Whitey Bulger is a notorious American murderer and mobster, convicted in numerous cases of racketeering, extortion, shoplifting and other crimes

Sep 3, 1929

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: September 3, 1929
  • Nationality: American
  • Famous: Convicted Murderer, Former Organized Crime Figure, Criminals, Murderers
  • City/State: Massachusetts
  • Spouses: Lindsey Cyr
  • Siblings: John P. Bulger, William M. Bulger
  • Known as: James Joseph, James Joseph Bulger Jr.

Whitey Bulger born at

Dorchester

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Birth Place

He met waitress and fashion model from North Weymouth, Massachusetts, Lindsey Cyr in 1966, after which the two shared a live-in relationship with a common law marriage for 12 years.

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Personal Life

The couple had a son – Douglas Glenn Cyr, in 1967. However, he suffered from Reye’s Syndrome, an allergic reaction to an aspirin injection, and died in 1973 at the age of six.

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Personal Life

After Bulger and Cyr ended their relationship, he got involved with Theresa Stanley, a divorcee with several kids from South Boston.

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Personal Life

James Joseph Bulger Jr. was born on September 3, 1929 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, as second of the six children, to Roman Catholic Irish parents who immigrated to America.

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Childhood & Early Life

His father, James Joseph Bulger Sr., was a union laborer and longshoreman. However, tragedy struck the family when his father lost his arm in an industrial accident and the family shifted to a public housing project in South Boston.

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Childhood & Early Life

While his brothers were good at academics, he lived on the streets and made an attempt to run with the circus at the age of 10, thus becoming a thief and street fighter eventually.

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Childhood & Early Life

His criminal life started at the age of 14 when he was arrested for delinquency. He became a part of the street gang ‘Shamrocks’ and was sent to a juvenile reformatory for five years, on charges of larceny, assault and battery.

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Offences & Incarceration

Upon his release in 1948, he joined the US Air Force and served in Kansas and Idaho. However, when he revealed his true colors, he was arrested in 1950 for going absent without leave, but was discharged honorably in 1952.

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Offences & Incarceration

He returned to Massachusetts, where his criminal offences increased, starting with his arrest in 1956 for bank robbery. He was jailed for 25 years in federal prison, but was released in 1965.

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Offences & Incarceration

He came back to South Boston and became an enforcer for gangster Donald Killeen. After Killeen’s murder in 1972, he joined Winter Hill Gang where he transformed into a shrewd, ruthless mobster.

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Offences & Incarceration

He carried out various murders, killing members of the rival Mullen gang, including Paulie McGonagle, Tommy King, and Spike O’Toole, apart from shooting Buddy Leonard and Edward Connors.

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Offences & Incarceration

In 1980, he gunned down bookmaking gangster, Louis Litif, on refusing to pay his profit share, committing two murders without his permission and threatening to kill his friend, Kevin Weeks.

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Major Crimes

He shot dead cocaine dealer Edward Brian Halloran, and his friend, Michael Donahue, in 1982, when Halloran informed the FBI on having information about the Roger Wheeler murder operation and turned witness in Louis Litif murder.

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