Whitey Bulger: Infamous Boston gangster killed in West Virginia jail aged 89

James “Whitey” Bulger, a notorious gangster whose life and crimes in Boston became the focus of several major films, has died in jail. The 89-year-old, who was the leader of South Boston’s Winter Hill Gang, ​was serving a life sentence after being convicted in 2013 of a litany of crimes, including participating in 11 murders. “At approximately 8.20am, inmate James Bulger was found unresponsive,” read a brief statement from the Bureau of Prisons.

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