September 3, 1929

AKA: Whitey, Mark Shapeton, Thomas F. Baxter, Tom Harris, Tom Marshall

Mobster

For years James J. Bulger kept Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents abreast of his Italian enemies’ criminal activities in exchange for protection and immunity (charges could not be brought against him). Since his disappearance in 1995, the FBI has undergone internal investigations for its special treatment of informants. More than seventy years old, Bulger is the oldest fugitive on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.

Top dog in Winter Hill

As a young man in the Irish-dominated area of South Boston, Massachusetts, James “Whitey” Bulger developed a reputation as a fierce rival. Running with a local Irish gang called the Shamrocks, he soon became involved in serious crimes. He was first arrested at the age of seventeen.

Sometime in the late 1950s, Bulger joined the Winter Hill...