S4 Ep4: James "Whitey" Bulger (Part 2)

Mafia

Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In the mid-1990s, renowned Irish mobster Whitey Bulger was in hiding from local Massachusetts police, the FBI, and US Marshals. In this episode, we'll hear what was going on behind the scenes with those he trusted most, how Bulger got around undetected, the unexpected way he was finally caught, and the aftermath.

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Special thanks to Phyllis Karas, Geoff Schumacher and the Mob Museum.

Music by Damiano Baldoni, Sergey Cheremisinov, and Kai Engel. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Alex's work trip was looking like a busy one.
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0:31.9	Previously on Mafia, it's 1994 in South Boston.
0:37.8	James Whitey Bulger was coasting through life
0:41.2	after his prison release, rising through the ranks
0:44.0	of organized crime.
0:46.2	As the leader of the Winter Hill gang and a secret FBI
0:50.0	informant, Bulger had been operating with little
0:53.2	to no intervention from the law.
0:56.1	But all of that was about to come crashing down.
0:59.8	The law had finally caught up with him.
1:02.9	And his FBI hella was John Connolly.
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