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Tipped one last time in 1995, Bulger went into hiding with his girlfriend Catherine Grieg. Ashamed and embarrassed for covering him in the past, the FBI added him to the Top Ten Most Wanted. He spent 16 years on the run until he was caught in Southern California in 2011. It was believed that an Icelandic beauty pageant queen who was once neighbors with the couple tipped them off. They used the aliases Charlie and Carol Gasko and were known as an elderly couple with many cats. He was convicted of 19 counts of murder in 2013 and sentenced to life in prison. | Tipped one last time in 1995, Bulger went into hiding with his girlfriend Catherine Grieg. Ashamed and embarrassed for covering him in the past, the FBI added him to the Top Ten Most Wanted. He spent 16 years on the run until he was caught in Southern California in 2011. It was believed that an Icelandic beauty pageant queen who was once neighbors with the couple tipped them off. They used the aliases Charlie and Carol Gasko and were known as an elderly couple with many cats. He was convicted of 19 counts of murder in 2013 and sentenced to life in prison. | ||
Just hours after he was transferred to FCI Hazleton in West Virginia, the wheelchair-bound Bulger was beaten to his death on October 30, 2018. He was 89 years old. He had been beaten to death by multiple inmates, including gangster Freddy Geas, armed with a sock-wrapped padlock and a shiv. His eyes had nearly been gouged out and his tongue almost cut off. They wheeled him to an area of the prison where cameras weren't present. Geas had reportedly been angry at Bulger for ordering the killings of women and children (which are seen as off-limits) as well as being an informant to the FBI (known as snitching or ratting out, considered one of the most hated things a mobster can do). On November 8, 2018, a funeral mass was held for Bulger at Saint Monica – Saint Augustine Church in South Boston. Family members, including his brother, former Massachusetts state Senate president William M. Bulger, and the twin sister of Catherine Greig, attended. He was buried with his parents. His family later sued the Bureau of Prisons over his death, claiming that they deliberately transferred him to die | Just hours after he was transferred to FCI Hazleton in West Virginia, the wheelchair-bound Bulger was beaten to his death on October 30, 2018. He was 89 years old. He had been beaten to death by multiple inmates, including gangster Freddy Geas, armed with a sock-wrapped padlock and a shiv. His eyes had nearly been gouged out and his tongue almost cut off. They wheeled him to an area of the prison where cameras weren't present. Geas had reportedly been angry at Bulger for ordering the killings of women and children (which are seen as off-limits) as well as being an informant to the FBI (known as snitching or ratting out, considered one of the most hated things a mobster can do). On November 8, 2018, a funeral mass was held for Bulger at Saint Monica – Saint Augustine Church in South Boston. Family members, including his brother, former Massachusetts state Senate president William M. Bulger, and the twin sister of Catherine Greig, attended. He was buried with his parents. His family later sued the Bureau of Prisons over his death, claiming that they deliberately transferred him to die. | ||
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