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Kevin Cullen

A crack in Cathy Greig’s hard facade

By Kevin Cullen

 |  Globe Columnist  

  March 15, 2012

It was a routine question, meant to ascertain whether she was of sound mind. But when a judge asked Whitey Bulger’s girlfriend, Cathy Greig, if she had ever been treated by a psychiatrist, her mind raced back 28 years, to a triple-decker in Southie, where her brother killed himself. And in that moment, Cathy Greig, the seemingly cold moll of a murderous gangster, did something she had never done in public: she cried.

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