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Jan. 24, 2010

Whitey Bulger was his dad

The never-told story of the gangster and his little son

By Stephen Kurkjian and Shelley Murphy

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 25, 2010

Lindsey Cyr, 64, of Weymouth, told the Globe that she and the former South Boston crime boss had a son, Douglas Glenn Cyr, who was born in 1967 and was healthy and active until he suddenly fell sick and died in 1973 of Reye’s Syndrome.

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