Howie Carr thread week of April 20, 2008

howiecarr.com, ^ | 04/20/08 | raccoonradio

[maryz]

Howie is enjoying this entirely too much! ;-)

Well, at least he's having a good time on vacation . . .

[raccoonradio]

Howie did a brief column in the Sat. Herald. Pictures
included at the link below.

http://bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1089726

Whitey Bulger: This is your life
By Howie Carr | Saturday, April 26, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists

Teresa Stanley, Whitey Bulger’s longtime galpal, tells people that when the feds finally catch up with the geriatric fugitive, he’s going to look 15 years younger than everybody expects.

That’s the way it is with the Bulgers, she reportedly says. They just don’t seem to age.

So maybe if the serial-killing, cocaine-dealing gangster ever is captured, he’ll still look something like these photos, which are printed courtesy of America’s Most Wanted.

These photos, posted on the hit TV series’ Web site, amw.com, trace the life of the 78-year-old fugitive, who has been on the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for close to 15 years now and has a $1 million bounty on his head.

Teresa, shown in many of the photos, was a struggling young mother of four in 1965 when she hooked up with Whitey. He had just been released from Leavenworth after doing a nine-year bit - including a couple of years at Alcatraz - for robbing banks. He ate dinner at her house most nights, and they traveled the world together as he planned for his eventual flight from justice.

In December 1994, just before Whitey’s racketeering indictment, she went on the lam with him for several weeks, dying her hair black as a disguise. But in January 1995, Whitey dropped Teresa off at a Hingham restaurant, and as she called her son-in-law to pick her up, Whitey rendezvoused with a younger moll, Catherine Greig, who has been with him ever since.

Memories . . . of the way we were . . .