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Bulger On Trial

  • INTRO
  • The Victims
  • The Gangster
  • The FBI Agent
  • The Politician
  • The Trial
  • BIOS
  • MAP
  • TIMELINE
  • DOCS
  • TRIAL COVERAGE

The Victims

James "Whitey" Bulger is charged with 19 murders. Some of the victims were career criminals. Some were truly innocent. All of them left behind families who never saw justice.

The Gangster

The young Bulger was a bank robber and wound up in Alcatraz. But he was a master manipulator, and used some unlikely connections to work his way back home to Boston.

The FBI Agent

John Connolly was Bulger's FBI handler. The treachery and deception ran both ways. Bulger was a mob boss turned federal informant; Connolly was a star agent turned mobster.

The Politician

William Bulger inhabited a world very different from his older brother's. But in their separate realms, both reigned. "What Whitey does with a gun, Billy does with a gavel."

The Trial

Bulger faced 32 counts and 19 allegations of murder. The jury heard 35 days of testimony by 72 witnesses. But in the end it was a narrow trial that ignored a sordid history.

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Bulger On Trial

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Bulger On Trial

90.9 WBUR | Boston's NPR News Station | Written by David Boeri

The Victims

BY David Boeri

The Gangster

BY David Boeri

The FBI Agent

BY David Boeri

The Politician

BY David Boeri

The Trial

BY David Boeri

Documents

    United States of America v. James J. Bulger

    The FBI’s #1 Most Wanted Fugitive is Brought to Trial

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