DEVELOPING NEWS FROM
THE TARGET 12
INVESTIGATORS.
NOTORIOUS BOSTON
MOBSTER JAMES WHITEY
BULGER IS DEAD.
(HE)
FEDERAL PRISON
OFFICIALS CONFIRM HE
WAS FOUND
UNRESPONSIVE INSIDE
THE PRISON AT 8-20 THIS
MORNING.
(MM)
THE PINPOINT
NEWSTRACKER TAKES
YOU TO BRUCETON MILLS,
WEST VIRGINIA...
THAT'S WHERE THE
MAXIMUM SECURITY
-----HAZELTON FEDERAL
PRISON IS LOCATED...
(HE)
BULGER WAS JUST
TRANSFERRED THERE
YESTERDAY...
THEN FOUND DEAD - THE
VERY NEXT DAY.
(MM)
THE TARGET 12
INVESTIGATORS HAVE
REPORTED -----THIS IS
BEING INVESTIGATED AS A
HOMICIDE.
TIM WHITE HAS BEEN
WORKING THIS STORY ALL
DAY ---AND IS HERE NOW
WITH THE LATEST.
(TW)
IT IS A VIOLENT END TO A
VIOLENT MAN.
JAMES WHITEY BULGER'S
DEATH BEING
INVESTIGATED AS A
MURDER... THE SAME WAY
HE ENDED MANY LIVES
OVER HIS MURDEROUS
UNDERWORLD CAREER
FOR YEARS HE TERRORIZED
THE STREETS OF BOSTON
RUNNING A RUHTLESS
MURDEROUS CRIMINAL
ORGANIZATION.
ON TUESDAY MORNING.
89 YEAR OLD JAMES WHITEY
BULGER WAS FOUND
UNRESPONSIVE INSIDE
HAZELTON FEDERAL PRISON IN
BRUCETON MILLS WEST
VIRGINIA.
HE HAD JUST BEEN
TRANSFERRED TO THAT
FACILITY IN RECENT DAYS.
A DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
SPOKSPERSONS SAYS
"Life-saving measures were
initiated
immediately by responding staff.
Mr.
Bulger was subsequently
pronounced dead by the Preston
County Medical Examiner."
OFFICIALS AREN'T SAYING HOW
BULGER DIED,
BUT TARGET 12 HAS LEARNED
THE DEATH IS BEING
INVESTIGATED AS A HOMICIDE.
WE REACHED THE UNION
PRESIDENT FOR
CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS
THERE BY PHONE AND HE
TELLS US:
"This is the third homicide in 7
months at our facility. We are
very
understaffed, we are short about
40
officers."
(0235) Im surprised it took this
long
FORMER RHODE ISLAND STATE
POLICE COLONEL STEVEN
ODONELL INVESTIGATED THE
MOB FOR YEARS.
(0224) that's what youre
resigned to
when you decide to be involved
in
that world its not right or
wrong but
it's the life they chose to
live.
(TW)
BULGER WAS NEVER
GETTING OUT OF PRISON
ALIVE.
HE WAS CONVICTED IN
2013 OF TAKING PART IN 11
MURDERS, THOUGH HE
WAS ACCUSED OF
COMMITTING MORE.
BULGER WAS GIVEN TWO
CONSECUTIVE LIFE
SENTENCES.
WE WILL CONTINUE TO
WORK THESE
DEVELOPING DETAILS AND
BRING YOU THE LATEST AT
6
TIM WHITE EYEWITNESS
NEWS.
(HE)
FIRST AT SIX, WE
CONTINUE TO TRACK
DEVELOPING NEWS FROM
THE TARGET 12
INVESTIGATORS.
FORMER BOSTON MOB
BOSS JAMES WHITEY
BULGER IS DEAD.
(MM)
THE 89 YEAR OLD WAS
FOUND UNRESPONSIVE
THIS MORNING IN A
FEDERAL PRISON IN
HAZELTON WEST VIRGINIA.
OFFICIALS AREN'T
RELEASING--- HOW
BULGER WAS KILLED,
BUT TARGET 12 IS
REPORTING----- THIS IS
BEING INVESTIGATED AS A
HOMICIDE.
(HE)
TIM WHITE JOINS US IN
STUDIO NOW WITH THE
LATEST ON WHAT HE'S
LEARNED.
TIM THIS IS A VIOLENT END
- TO A VIOLENT MAN.
(TW)
WE SPOKE TO A UNION
OFFICIAL DOWN THERE
WHO SAYS THIS IS BEING
INVESTIGATED AS A
MURDER.
JAMES BULGER ARRIVED
AT THE HAZELTON
FEDERAL PRISON ON
MONDAY -
TRANSFERRED FROM A
FACILITY IN FLORIDA.
LESS THAN 24 HOURS
LATER HE WAS DEAD.
NOTORIOUS AND MURDEROUS
BOSTON MOBSTER JAMES
WHITEY BULGER...
DEAD AT THE AGE OF 89.
FOUND UNRESPONSIVE INSIDE
THE HAZLETON FEDERAL
PRISON IN WEST VIRGINIA AT 8-
20 TUESDAY MORNING.
TARGET 12 HAS LEARNED HIS
DEATH IS BEING INVESTIGATED
AS A HOMCIDE.
A UNION OFFICIAL AT THE
PRISON TELLS US:
"This is the third homicide in 7
months at our facility. We are
very
understaffed, we are short about
40
officers."
White: (0151) What was your
reaction?
(0153) First reaction was that
is the
world he chose to come into
FORMER RHODE ISLAND STATE
POLICE COLONEL STEVEN
ODONNELL SAYS... BULGER HAS
HIS SHARE OF ENEMIES.
(0118) he was living a double
life, a
source for le and a mob boss,
those
two things are incongruous way
to
longevity in your life.
IN 2013, BULGER WAS
CONVICTED OF TAKING PART IN
THE MURDERS OF 11 PEOPLE.
BUT ACCUSED OF EVEN MORE.
THE U-S ATTORNEYS OFFICE IN
WEST VIRGINIA CONFIRMS THEY
ARE INVESTIGATING BULGER'S
DEATH.
THE BUREAU OF PRISONS WILL
ALSO COME UNDER THE
MICROSCOPE IN THE WAKE OF
THE KILLING.
RAISING QUESTIONS
ABOUT SECURITY.
(0235) Im surprised it took this
long.
(TW)
A PRISON
SPOKESPERSON SAYS
THERE ARE A LITTLE
UNDER 13-HUNDRED
INMATES AT HAZELTON.
WHICH IS A HIGH
SECURITY FACILITY.
MIKE SHANNON, A LOT OF
QUESTIONS RIGHT NOW
ABOUT WHO HAD ACCESS
TO BULGER BEHIND BARS.
(MM)
TIM, YOU REPORTED THE
U-S ATTORNEYS OFFICE IS
NOW INVESTIGATING HIS
DEATH, NOW. IS THAT THE
NORMAL COURSE?
(TW)
THE U-S ATTORNEYS
OFFICE HAS JURISDICTON
OVER CRIMES IN FEDERAL
PRISON.
ONCE AGAIN IT MEANS
THE DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE WILL HAVE TO
DEAL WITH BULGER.
HIS REIGN OF TERROR
WAS ALLOWED BY A
GROUP OF CORRUPT FBI
AGENTS...
THEN HE GOES ON THE
RUN FOR 16 YEARS, AND
AS THE FBI HAD HIM ON
THEIR MOST WANTED LIST
-- ALL WHILE
CONSPIRACIES FLEW
ABOUT WHETHER THE
AGENCY ACTUALLY
WANTED TO FIND HIM.
AND NOW, WHEN THEY
THINK THEY ARE DONE
WITH BULGER, LOCKED
AWAY FOREVER, ANOTHER
INVESTIGATION.
EVEN IN DEATH, WHITEY
BULGER HAUNTS THE
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
(HE)
ALRIGHT, THANKS TIM ---
STILL A LOT OF QUESTIONS
TO BE ANSWERED.