October 10th, 2011
Today’s must-read is the Boston Globe’s blockbuster account of the flight and capture of Whitey Bulger. A total show-stopper. Print it out and enjoy:
Shortly before Bulger fled Boston in late 1994 to avoid arrest, Greig calmly revealed their on-and-off affair to a stunned Stanley, who had never met the younger woman.
“She wanted to break it off with him, and she had to do something that would just end it for them,” said Stanley.
The strategy worked – at first. A furious Bulger showed up as the two women discussed his infidelity at Greig’s Quincy home, Stanley recalled. The gangster got into a brief shoving match with Greig before leaving with Stanley.
A contrite Bulger, insisting the affair with Greig was over, took Stanley on a whirlwind tour of Europe that included visits to safe deposit boxes in preparation for their life on the run. When Bulger got word from a corrupt former FBI agent on Dec. 23, 1994, that he was about to be indicted on federal racketeering charges, Bulger hit the road with Stanley.
But Stanley missed her family and asked to go home after just a few weeks. On a winter night in early 1995, Bulger returned to Massachusetts, dropping Stanley off at a Chili’s Restaurant in Hingham. Then, he picked up Greig at Malibu Beach in Dorchester, and the couple headed south.
There’s so much good stuff in here.
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Was wondering what happened to the reward. Now I suppose they have the seed money for “Real Housewives of Abbottabad”
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Magisterial article.
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Tremendous. Thanks for the tip.
Galley Friend J.E. October 10, 2011 at 6:02 pm
I guess that’s how he got the name Bulger.