A window into Whitey’s brutal life and mind

A new biography, written by the Globe’s Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy, looks at James “Whitey” Bulger and notes that he offered himself for execution in exchange for the release of his girlfriend.

The Back Story: Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy on Whitey Bulger

Dina Rudick talks with Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy on their recent biography of Whitey Bulger. By Dina Rudick/Globe Staff

Special report: Whitey's life in exile

Special report

Whitey Bulger’s life in exile

It is a portrait of the gangster as a grumpy old man, hunkered down in a Santa Monica flat with his girlfriend. Neighbors liked them, but no one got close — or, rather, almost no one. And that was their undoing.

The tipster

Beauty bonded with Greig over cats

Anna Bjornsdottir called the FBI from her native Iceland on June 21, to report that the fugitive gangster and his girlfriend could be found in California, 4,300 miles away.

The hunt for Whitey

June 24, 2011

A booking photo shows James

Bulger manhunt ends

FBI agents and Los Angeles police arrested the infamous Boston crime boss and his longtime girlfriend, Catherine Greig, without incident at a Santa Monica, Calif., apartment building near the beach, ending a 16-year international manhunt.

Whitey Bulger book

http://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_460w/Boston/2011-2020/2013/02/07/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/WhiteyBulger200.jpg Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice

Based on exclusive access and previously undisclosed documents, award-winning Boston Globe reporters Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy follow James "Whitey" Bulger's criminal career, from teenage thievery, to bank robberies, to the building of his underworld empire, and to becoming an informant for the FBI.

Author bio

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/02/07/BostonGlobe.com/Special/Images/murphy.jpg About Shelley Murphy

Murphy has covered Whitey Bulger and organized crime in Boston since 1985, beginning at the Boston Herald and moving to the Globe in 1993. She has won a George Polk Award for National Reporting.

Author bio

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/02/07/BostonGlobe.com/Special/Images/cullen.jpg About Kevin Cullen

Cullen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has written for the Boston Globe since 1985, was the first to raise questions about Whitey Bulger’s relationship with the FBI. He has also won the Goldsmith Prize, the George Polk Award, and the Selden Ring Award.

Whitey Bulger's associates

John Connolly embraced his sister, Sally, after a jury in Miami found him guilty yesterday of second-degree murder.

Nov. 7, 2008

Miami jury convicts Connolly

A Florida jury convicted retired agent John J. Connolly Jr. of second-degree murder for plotting with informants James “Whitey” Bulger and Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi to kill a potential witness against them 26 years ago.

John Martorano testified against former FBI agent John Connoll in 2008.

March 20, 2007

Ex-hitman looks to lead quiet life

John Martorano become a free man after killing 20 people and serving 12 years and two months in an undisclosed federal prison out of state.

Special Report: Whitey & The FBI (1998)

“He knew I’d never help him, but he knew I’d never hurt him.’’ - Former FBI agent John Connolly

Whitey & the FBI | Part 1: Crossing the line

Agent, mobster forge a pact on old Southie ties

Lining up Whitey Bulger as an informant was surely a coup in the FBI’s crusade against the local Mafia. But the arrangement would veer wildly off track.

Harry Angiulo and Whitey Bulger met in a garage on Lancaster Street in 1980.

WHITEY & THE FBI | PART 2: THE MAFIA MYTH

Agents gave Bulger starring role - but was it real?

Once-secret FBI documents, interviews with sources inside and outside law enforcement, and recent court testimony show Whitey Bulger deserves little credit for the fall of the Angiulo Mafia family.

Special report: Whitey's Fall (1995)

The story behind Whitey’s fall

Whitey Bulger and Kevin Weeks were seen walking at South Boston’s Castle Island in 1994.

New team, tactics hastened Whitey Bulger’s fall

The case against against Whitey Bulger marks a sea change in local law enforcement, an unprecedented coalition that has done much to overcome the ill will arising from Bulger’s role as an informant.

Special Report: The Bulger Mystique (1988)

The Bulger Mystique | Part 1

Senate president: A mix of family, Southie, power

Bill Bulger’s unusual background of scholarship and mean streets has produced a paradoxical politician who defies the ready labels of his trade.

William Bulger spoke to supporters at a mid-1970s antibusing rally in Charlestown near the Bunker Hill monument

The Bulger Mystique | Part 2

As brothers flex muscles, busing enters the picture

As the 1970s progressed, the approaching maelstrom of court-ordered school busing would test them both Whitey and Billy Bulger.

“He said, ‘I used to like weapons and I used to fight.’ I just thought that was because he was in the military.”

Enrique Sanchez,  maintenance supervisor of Bulger’s building