Bulger was accused of strangling Debra Davis, the year-old girlfriend of his partner, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, and Deborah Hussey, also 26, the daughter of Flemmi's common-law wife. In both cases, Bulger insisted on pulling out the women's teeth so they would be difficult to identify, Flemmi testified. They were caught days after the FBI began a new publicity campaign focusing on Greig.
The daytime TV announcements showed photos of Greig and noted that she was known to frequent beauty salons and have her teeth cleaned once a month. A woman from Iceland who knew Bulger and Greig in Santa Monica saw a report on CNN about the latest publicity campaign and called in the tip that led agents to them. The Boston Globe identified the tipster as a former Miss Iceland, a former actress who starred in Noxzema shaving cream commercials in the s.
Bulger, a physical fitness buff, had been taken to a Boston hospital from his jail cell at least three times, complaining of chest pains, since being brought back to Boston to stand trial.
Skip Navigation. Key Points. He was an enforcer for the New England mafia during the s and the early s, according to federal prosecutors, making him a direct rival of Bulger, who was the leader of Boston's Irish mob and a secret FBI informant. Geas is serving a life sentence for murder. McKinnon is serving eight years for stealing guns from a Vermont firearms store to trade for drugs. His mother, Cheryl Prevost, said she believes he's being held in solitary only because he was cellmates with Geas.
Prevost said her son won't discuss the case with her and he's not the type to dish to investigators. The workers said the surveillance cameras almost certainly recorded the assailants slipping into his cell. The housing units are shaped like giant triangles, with cells lining each side and multiple cameras hanging from the ceilings.
But the presence of working cameras wouldn't make it a slam-dunk case, one retired federal prison special investigative agent said, because they don't capture images from inside the cell. They'll just pick up people going in and out of the cell," said Vito Maraviglia, who spent more than two decades investigating inmates for gang affiliations and other potential threats to determine where they should be placed inside federal prisons.
Maraviglia has also worked closely with FBI agents in criminal investigations inside penitentiaries. He said they'll want to speak to as many inmates as possible to develop a full picture of the circumstances around Bulger's murder.
You want to be able to connect as many dots as you can to the person who did it. Joyce Vance, a former U. They're already serving long sentences. And if they cooperate, and their cooperation becomes known, they, too, could face retaliation. Bulger was found beaten to death less than 12 hours after he arrived at Hazelton from the Coleman II federal prison in central Florida. The transfer has drawn heavy criticism , with former wardens and other experts questioning the decision to relocate an ailing gangster with a target on his back to a violent penitentiary rather than a prison hospital.
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