James 'Whitey' Bulger Killed in Prison

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Associated Press

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30 October, 2018

Notorious gangster James "Whitey" Bulger has been found dead at a federal prison in West Virginia Tuesday just days after being moved there.

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The Federal Bureau of Prisons online inmate log on Tuesday listed Bulger as an inmate at USP Hazelton, a high-security prison with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp in Bruceton Mills.

The 89-year-old Bulger had recently been moved from a prison in Florida to a transfer facility in Oklahoma City.

The feared former leader of the Winter Hill Gang, Bulger was convicted in 2013 of participating in 11 murders stretching from Massachusetts to Florida to Oklahoma.

Bulger was serving a life sentence. Further details were not immediately known.

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