>> Anchor: THERE ARE MANY NOTORIOUS MOBSTERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY, AL CAPONE,
JOHN DILLINGER, BUGSY SIEGEL
AND WHITEY BULGER.
>> BULGER WAS A BOSTON CRIME
BOSTON TURNED F.B.I.
INFORMANT WHO ENDED UP FORG
ING A BOND WITH A MAN WHO
LIVES LOCALLY.
SCOTT JOHNSON GOES TO
ALCATRAZ, PRISON IN TONIGHT’S
SPECIAL REPORT ORIGINAL GANG
STER.
>> Reporter: WHITEY BULGER
MADE A LOT OF ENEMIES BUT
VERY FEW TRUE FRIENDS.
MAYBE A MAN WHO COULD
CONSIDERED HIS BEST FRIEND
LIVES RIGHT HERE IN OUR AREA.
IN THE HEART OF CLAY COUNTY.
HIS STORY IS AMERICAN HISTORY
HIS NAME IS JAMES WHITEY
BULGER.
>> WHEN I SAY THE NAME WHITEY
BULGER YOU THINK MOBSTER,
MURDER.
>> Reporter: A BOSTON CRIME
LORD WHO IS WINTER HILL GANG
RAN BEAN TOWN WITH AN IRON
FIST UNTIL THE F.B.I. WHO
USED BULGER FOR YEARS --
FINALLY STOPPED IGNORING HIS
CRIMES AND SENT HIM SCURRYING
INTO HIDING.
ON TO THE MOST WANTED LIST.
NUMBER TWO BEHIND OSAMA BIN
LADEN.
PRISON WAS INEVITABLE:
POLICE FOUND HIM HIDING IN
CALIFORNIA.
>> HERE AT HIS APARTMENT.
>> Reporter: ENDING A 16
YEAR MANHUNT FOR BULGER AND
HIS GIRL FRIEND.
>> SHE IS WANTED FOR HARBOR
ING JAMES WHITEY BULGER
, A FUGITIVE ON THE
F.B.I.’S TEN MOST WANTED LIST
>> Reporter: AFTER HIS
TRANSPORTATION HE TRUSTED
ALMOST NO ONE.
WHAT WAS HE LIKE?
>> I THINK WHITEY WAS A NICE
GUY.
>> Reporter: BUT NOTICE I
SAID ALMOST.
>> I KNOW PEOPLE BETTER THAN
MOST.
>> Reporter: BECAUSE IN
RURAL GREEN COVE SPRINGS.
>> HE WAS A KILLER, YES, IF
YOU CROSSED HIM HE WOULD KILL
YOU.
>> Reporter: AS FAR FROM
THE NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT AS IT
GETS.
>> HE DIDN’T KILL INNOCENT
PEOPLE.
>> Reporter: IS WHERE YOU
FIND --
>> HE LOVED CHILDREN AND
ANIMALS.
>> Reporter: THE MAN WHO
COULD POSSIBLY BE CONSIDERED
WHITEY BULGER’S BEST FRIEND.
HIS PEN PAL CHARLES HOPKINS.
YOU MIGHT WONDER WHY ONE OF
AMERICA’S MOST NOTORIOUS
CRIMINALS CHOOSE TO BECOME
FRIENDS WITH A RETIRED CARPET
INSTALLER WHO HAS A
PREDILECTION FOR MARILYN
MONROE.
>> SHE WAS A GOOD --S.
>> BIG BOY HIMSELF.
>> Reporter: AND OF COURSE
MOBSTERS.
THERE IS SOMETHING THAT MADE
BULGER KNOW HE COULD TRUST
HOPKINS.
THE TWO SHARED THE SAME
ADDRESS HERE AT THE ROCK.
YOU PROBABLY KNOW IT BETTER
AS ALCATRAZ.
WHAT YEAR DID YOU GO TO
ALCATRAZ?
>> I WAS TRANSFERRED THERE IN
55.
>> Reporter: THIS IS THE
LAST TIME YOU EVER WERE
CONVICTED OF?
>> YES.
I HADN’T BEEN IN ANY TROUBLE
SINCE THAT.
>> Reporter: IN THE EARLY
50s LIFE WAS DIFFERENT FOR
THE NOW CHATTY GRANDFATHER.
>> WE ROBBED A COUPLE OF --
>> Reporter: HOPKINS’ CREW
--
>> THEY WERE’ EASY TO ROB.
WE ROBBED TWO OF THEM --
>> Reporter: WAS DUBBED BY
THE PRESS OF THE TIME --
>> PEOPLE WERE TRYING TO GETt>t>
HOOD GANG.
>> THEY HAD US TRAPPED IN THE
MOUNTAINS OF TENNESSEE.
>> Reporter: POLICE CAUGHT
HIM.
>> THIS WAS FLYING AROUND THE
POLICE PLANE.
>> Reporter: HOPKINS WOUND
UP IN SAN FRANCISCO.
THIS LED YOU TO ALCATRAZ.
C. BLOCK.
>> IT WAS ABOUT AS DANGEROUS
PLACE.
>> Reporter: HOPKINS GOT
OUT.
LEGALLY.
OUT. LEGALLY. AND IN THE MONTHS AFTER THAT,
BULGER SHOWED UP.
>> WHITEY WAS A BAD GUY.
>> Reporter: ALSO ON C.
BLOCK.
>> WHITEY CAME THERE IN 59
RIGHT AFTER I LEFT.
>> Reporter: WHEN HOPKINS
SENT HIM A LETTER --
>> WE TALKED ABOUT HOW
FRIENDS AND -- HE TOLD ME A
LOT OF THINGS HE DID.
HE TOLD ME HOW HE SHOT UP
BOSTON --
>> Reporter: NOT CARING
MUCH FOR JOHNNY DEPP’S WHITEY
BULGER MOVIE CALLED "BLACK
MASS."
BULGER LAUD OUT HUSBAND LIFE
FOR -- LAID OUT HIS LIFE.
HIS THOUGHTS ON ITSELF PRESS,
OLD FRIENDS AND CRIMES.
>> DEALING WITH THE JOURNAL
ISTS IS LIKE -- YOU
DON’T KNOW IF HE WILL LIKE
YOUR FACE OR RIP YOUR THROAT
OUT.
>> Reporter: THIS IS WHY
HOPKINS WAS DEVASTATED WHEN
THE FINAL IMAGES OF BULGER
ALIVE WERE CAPTURED.
WHY DO YOU THINK IT WAS
TRANSFERRED TO WEST VIRGINIA?
WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT THAT
>> BECAUSE THEY HATED HIM.
THE GUARDS OR INMATES?
>> NOT THE GUARDS, NO.
IT WAS THE PRISON OFFICIALS.
>> Reporter: WHITEY WAS
MURDERED.
A HIT MAN FROM THE
MASSACHUSETTS MOB HAS NOT
DENIED INVOLVEMENT.
YOU THINK THEY KNEW THERE
WERE MOB PEOPLE IN THE WEST
VAST PRISON?
>> THEY KNOW EVERYBODY HERE.
THEY PUT A LOT OF THE MAFIA
GUYS THERE IN THE PRISON
BECAUSE IT’S HIGH SECURITY.
>> Reporter: MEMORIES OF
WHITEY BULGER --
[LAUGHTER]
-- CAN BE FOUND IN MOVIES AND
INTERNET SEARCHES.
>> I FELT TERRIBLE.
WE WERE LIKE BROTHERS.
>> Reporter: BUT NONE WILL
BE AS COMPREHENSIVE --
>> HE TALKED TO ME ABOUT
PERSONAL THINGS THAT HE TOLD
ME HE DOESN’T TALK TO HIS
FAMILY ABOUT.
>> Reporter: AS WHAT IS
FOUND IN A TRAILER.
>> HAVE YOU BEEN NERVOUS
BEING SO CLOSE WITH THE MAN
WHO PROBABLY HAS A LOCALITY
OF ENEMIES?
>> IN THE HEART OF CLAY COUNT
Y.
>> NO.
Y. >> NO. WE WAS LIKE BROTHERS.
>> Reporter: CHARGES HAVE
STILL NOT BEEN FILED IN BULG
ER’S BRUTAL BEATING DEATH
IN THE PRISON.
THE HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION IS
ONGOING.
THERETO IS A COPY OF ONE OF
THE LETTERS ON A PICTURE -- I
WANT TO PUT A PICTURE OF THE
LETTER UP ON SCREEN.
IT’S INTERESTING HOW HE WOULD
SIGN O. YOU SEE AT THE BOTTOM
IT SAID JIM BULGER AND THAT
IS HIS PRISON INMATE NUMBER
FROM ALCATRAZ ENDS IN THE
LETTERS A.Z.
>> SO MANY FASCINATING THINGS
ABOUT THE STORY.
>> HOLD ON TO THE STORY --
>> Reporter: HE HAS KNOWN
ABOUT IT.
I THINK IT PROBABLY STARTED
GATHERING MORE ATTENTION WHEN
BULGER WAS KILLED LAST YEAR.
THAT IS REALLY WHAT FRONTED
IT.
I TALKED TO -- PROMPTED T. I
TALKED TO HIS UGHTER.
HE CLEANED UP HIS LIFE.
BULGER WOULD SAY YOU ARE A
MORE SUCCESSFUL CRIMINAL THAN
I WAS.
YOU GOT OUT OF JAIL.
>> LOOKING AT BULGER, THAT
IMAGE WAS INTENSE.
>> Reporter: THOSE YOUNG
PICTURES ARE WELL BEFORE HE
WAS AN ORGANIZED CRIME BOSTON