When news of James “Whitey” Bulger’s arrest on Wednesday evening first hit, his choice of Santa Monica, California as a hideout came as almost as big a surprise as the end to his 16 years as a fugitive. Bulger, a former crime boss who fled Boston in 1995 as he was about to be arrested for murder, extortion and drug dealing, had spent years on the FBI’s most wanted list
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The Long and Frustrating Hunt for One of America’s Most Wanted (Psst: He’s Not a Terrorist)
James Bulger’s story reads like the plot of a thousand mobster films.