Whitey Bulger, Boston mobster, dead at 89
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James "Whitey" Bulger, the South Boston mobster and FBI informer who was captured after 16 years on the run and finally brought to justice in 2013 for a murderous reign of terror that inspired books, films and a saga of Irish-American brotherhood and brutality, was found beaten to death Tuesday in a West Virginia prison. He was 89.