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    'Whitey' Bulger, notorious Boston mobster-turned-fugitive captured in Santa Monica, dies at 89

    by Steve Chawkins, Los Angeles Times Oct 31, 2018 6 minutes

    James J. "Whitey" Bulger Jr., the ruthless Boston mobster who topped the FBI's most-wanted list and was found quietly living as a fugitive near the ocean in Santa Monica, Calif., in 2011, has died in prison, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He was 89.

    Bulger was found unresponsive early Tuesday in his prison cell at United States Penitentiary Hazelton, a high-security prison in West Virginia where the aging mobster had been moved just the day before. A prison union official said Bulger's death is being investigated as a homicide. The FBI is investigating.

    Bulger and his longtime girlfriend, Catherine Greig, lived under assumed names for nearly 16 years in a two-bedroom apartment near Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade. They were known as Charlie and Carol Gasko, and their acquaintances thought they were retirees from Chicago.

    In fact, Bulger had been the subject of a global manhunt since fleeing Boston in 1995 after he was tipped off to his federal indictment

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