204: Silence of the Lams: James "Whitey" Bulger

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Whitey Bulger worked his way up in the ranks of the criminal underworld. After wheeling and dealing with some of the most well known mob rings, he eventually takes one over and becomes the boss. And also a police informant. But those two activities are bound to get you on a hit list or two...

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Kai Engel

"Daemones"

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Art of Escapism

"Coal Miners"

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Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_Bulger
https://themobmuseum.org/notable_names/whitey-bulger
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Whitey-Bulger
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/bulger-timeline.html#/#time256_7542
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Whitey-Bulger
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/06/12/us/bulger-trial-victims.html
https://www.irishpost.com/news/11-james-whitey-bulger-facts-161517
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-13892330.amp

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, it's Jen.
0:25.2	And this is Lindsay.
0:26.7	And welcome back to Corpus Delict at the podcast.
0:29.4	We are well on our way through Silence of the LAMS.
0:33.6	And before we get started, no haters out there.
0:37.7	Just a fair warning.
0:39.7	Lindsay has COVID.
0:41.1	Yeah.
0:41.6	Okay, so here's the deal.
0:43.0	I'm going to do my very best.
0:45.3	I do not want to be coughing throughout this whole thing and have to edit out all the coughing.
0:50.7	That sounds horrible to me, so I have a cough drop in my mouth. And I'm really sorry if
0:56.2	there is clicking. I'm trying very, very hard. And it's either that or like not have an episode
1:02.2	again, and we don't want to do that either. So please forgive me. I'm okay. It's mild. But there is
1:09.1	some coughing, and I can already hear the clicking, so I'm sorry.
1:12.6	But also note that Lindsay and I are not recording in the same room tonight.
1:17.0	No, no, we never do, actually. So, yeah, we haven't recorded in the same room in years,
1:22.8	but I've been quarantined up in my office since we got back from Disney. I actually got COVID.
1:28.5	I don't know if I got it in Disney, but I tested positive while there and missed half the trip,
1:33.7	had to stay in the hotel room. And then once I got home, I was banished to my office.
1:37.7	So I have been stuck in here for four days, five days now. I don't even know what day it is.
1:43.7	I have not seen the outside of these
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