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The suspected killers behind the James ‘Whitey’ Bulger murder investigation are alleged to have tried to have cut off his tongue in a mob ‘retaliation’.
Sources told US media he died because he was considered a ‘rat’ and an informant who helped put away several gang members.
Wheelchair-bound Bulger, 89, is believed to have been killed in his cell on Tuesday at around 6am after being moved out of CCTV.
But security cameras on the prison wing captured four men entering his cell.
He was found around two hours later, beaten with his eyes nearly gouged out and blood in his mouth.
While the attack was not caught on video, the killers are said to have returned to their cells, changed out of their bloody clothes and then walked back to Bulger’s cell with a mop and a bucket to clean up the mess.
The prime suspect in the murder investigation has been named as Mafia hitman Freedy Geas who is said to have ‘hated rats’.
Bulger, who headed up Boston’s notorious Winter Hill gang was attacked after arriving at high-security penitentiary USP Hazelton in West Virginia.
Now Fotios ‘Freddy’ Geas, 51, is being investigated for allegedly instigating the attack.
Private investigator Ted McDonough said of Geas that he “hated rats”, reports the Mail Online.
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Geas is serving a life sentence after he was ratted on for the murders of former Genovese crime family mob boss Adolfo ‘Big Al’ Bruno in 2003.
Bulger had made a deal with the FBI to work as an informant or ‘rat’ as far back as 1975.
In 2013, he was convicted of killing at least 11 people and was serving two life sentences for his crimes.
McDonough said: “Freddy hated guys who abused women. Whitey was a rat who killed women. It’s probably that simple.”
Bulger was one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives for 16 years until his 2011 arrest in Santa Monica, California.
His case became an embarrbadment for the bureau as corrupt agents accepted bribes and protected him.
The story was the basis for the 2015 Johnny Depp film “Black Mbad.”
In October 2016, the Supreme Court turned down Bulger’s appeal of his racketeering convictions and life sentence.
At one point in the hunt for Bulger the only man with a higher price on his head was Osama bin Laden, yet for 16 years he managed to evade the FBI at every single turn.
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That was until 2011 when a cat ultimately led agents to America’s most feared mobster after a friend of his partner, Carol Grieg, recognised him on television.
The two women’s friendship was formed over the feeding of a neglected cat called Tiger.
It has also been reported that one of their neighbours, Anna Bjornsdottir, a former U.S. television actress and Miss Iceland of 1974, earned a $2 million reward (£1.6million) for turning in Bulger.
She was watching a television news report about the Bulger manhunt when she recognised the man she knew by the name Charlie Gasko and notified the FBI.
Bulger, who inspired Martin Scorsese’s film The Departed, once boasted to having “killed more than 40 men”.
During his trial five years ago, the families of his victims were told by prosecutors to prepare for the most harrowing details as his former lieutenants, all murderers themselves, prepare to give evidence against him.
In his 60 year reign, Bulger’s brutality knew no bounds pulling out the teeth and tongues of his victims before they were killed.
One brutal case left one man pleading with Bulger to kill him as he was in so much pain.
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Born in September 1929 to a stevedore father and an Irish American mother Bulger’s life of crime began when he was aged 14-years-old.
Whereas his brothers excelled in school, young James, or Jimmy to his friends, got his education on the streets.
After a brief spell in borstal and much to his struggling parent’s relief, he joined the US Air Force but life in the military failed to straighten him out.
Within years of leaving in 1952, he was sentenced to federal prison for armed robbery and hijacking.
But faced with the prospect of 25 years inside after being told he could get his sentence reduced Bulger volunteered to take part in an experiment by the CIA to investigate the effects of LSD.
It is said the tests had a lasting affecting on him making him prone to bouts of insomnia, violent nightmares and hallucinations.
The nine years behind bars, including a stint in Alcatraz, provided Bulger with a criminal education.
He read books about military tactics and strategies which he would later use in the countless killings he was responsible for.
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