Freddy Geas killed Whitey Bulger

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.6 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, Aaron and I interview our friend who is a former prison guard at the maximum security federal prison at Marion, Illinois. He will talk about the procedures in handling high profile prisoners and special circumstances like dealing with former informants inside the system.
Breaking news, a known Springfield, Massachusetts area mob member and others entered the cell of Boston gangster and former FBI Top Echelon informant James "Whitey" Bulger and beat him to death with padlocks deposited in socks or "Slocks." This murder happened within hours of his arrival at this federal prison in West Virginia. Additionally, authorities report, the assailants gouged out Bulger's eyes and tried to cut out his tongue. For certain, these killers sent a message to other mobsters who might think about cooperating with the government.
So far prison authorities believe that Fotios “Freddy” Geas, a West Springfield Massachusetts Mafia hit man serving a life sentence for the 2003 slaying of the leader of the Genovese crime family, is the prime suspect. They have video surveillance of several men entering Bulger’s cell around 6 a.m., according to authorities.
Freddy Geas, his younger brother, Ty Geas and onetime Genovese crime family boss named Arthur Nigro were convicted in 2011 by a federal jury after being charged with several violent crimes dating back to 2003. One of those crimes was the murder of Springfield mob boss Adolfo "Big Al" Bruno. At that time, the Geas brothers were feared enforcers for Anthony Arillotta, the boss of a mafia family in Springfield.
Freddy Geas had a particularly good reason to hate informants or government witnesses because in the Bruno murder, his old boss Anthony Arillotta turned on him and became an FBI informant after all three were charged with Bruno's murder. Arillotta testified that Geas and a man named Gary D. Westerman committed several murders and that he and Geas killed Westerman. Geas is doing life for these crimes.

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0:00.0	If you like what you hear, go to ganglandwire.com.
0:04.6	Navigate to the shop page.
0:06.5	We need you to put a hit out on our donate button.
0:11.4	Gangland Wire True Crime Stories is produced at the Big Dumb Fun Show Studio 4.
0:18.8	And now here's Gary Jenkins.
0:26.6	Hey, my friend, Gary Jenkins.
0:28.9	Hey, my friend, Gary Jenkins here.
0:32.1	Hey, how you doing?
0:33.3	Good, how are you doing?
0:34.2	Facebook living right now, so people are going to be able to hear him on the stream as well as we're talking.
0:39.3	Just be aware of that.
0:40.0	Right, right.
0:41.0	Yeah, we'll be aware of that.
0:42.5	We won't launch into anything about where he is or the only thing we'll say is this is a former corrections officer from the United States prison at Miriam, Maximum Security Prison. We're going to talk with him about what happened to Whitey, Whitey Bulger.
0:59.9	Everybody knows that Whitey Bulger got killed.
1:02.1	So we're just kind of curious, my friend, curious about kind of the intake procedures.
1:10.0	I don't know if you followed the news.
1:11.5	Have you seen anything that details on it on the news?
1:16.5	I've seen some things where he was beaten to the point where his eyeballs fell out
1:20.6	and wheeled over in the corner and worked over off camera that sort of thing as what i've seen oh so they worked them over on
1:29.8	you there like 12 hours before the attack that that's all i've seen yeah he just got to so somebody
1:35.3	like whitey bulger he's he's been in a more like a snitch prison i think and in a nicer place and i
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