The underworld career of America's most wanted man

Recently, James Bulger, the former FBI informant and the gang boss who single-handedly created 19 murders, was finally arrested, ending his 16-year escape career. His life is called the "legend" of the American underworld.

　　Irish teenager who wants to be "the boss"

　　The 81-year-old Bulger was born in the Irish neighborhood of South Boston in the United States. Since he was a child, he liked to fight in the streets and drag cars in the alleys. He longed for adventure and dreamed of ruling the children of the entire neighborhood and being their "boss". Because of Bulger's gray hair, the locals nicknamed him "Pulsatilla", but no one dared to call him that in person, otherwise the response would have been a punch.

　　However, there are also people in the local area who miss Bulger as a Robin Hood-style robber. Bulger was the most generous man in the area, not only paying out of his own pocket to decorate the storefront for poor vendors, but also handing out turkeys to the villagers on Thanksgiving. Brown, who has been a shopkeeper in South Boston for most of his life, has always remembered such a thing. One day, a teenage Bulger walked into his ice cream shop and saw three small children standing at the counter, staring eagerly at the ice cream but having no money to buy it. Bulger immediately ordered a cone for each of them. One of the kids, John Connolly, said timidly: "My parents won't let me ask for strangers' stuff." Bulger picked up the child, put it on the counter, stared at him and said, "Kid, I'm no stranger! Your parents are from Ireland, and so are mine. Don't talk, tell me, what flavor do you want?" There was a protective god-like power in his arrogant tone. This incident has always been imprinted in the mind of John Connolly, who grew up to be an FBI agent, but has always regarded Bulger as a spiritual idol.

　　MacKenzie, an American, once wrote a book "Street Fighter" about South Boston under Bulger's control, saying that "the residents regarded him as a leading brother with infinite power, but unfortunately he took the wrong direction." As an adult, Bulger made "crime" his job: robbing banks at gunpoint, robbing truck drivers, intimidating and defrauding businesses, and doing almost everything. To avoid capture, Bulger dyed his hair black and even went so far as to have plastic surgery. Still, he was arrested by the police late at night in 1956.

　　In prison, Bulger's continued provocation and arrogance angered the prison guards, and he was transferred to "Alcatraz Island" - an area of only 0.0763 square kilometers in San Francisco Bay and surrounded by cliffs and deep sea. A prison used by the U.S. government to hold felons. Here, Bulger was subjected to the harshest form of "solitary confinement" - only allowed to wear underwear and stay in an unheated iron cage. But he invented a "technique" to survive the cold winter by squatting in an iron cage, using only elbows, knees and fingertips to support his body, as little as possible next to the cold iron cage. In 1963, Alcatraz prison was closed by the U.S. government, and Bulger was transferred to Leavenworth Prison in Kansas, where he was paroled in 1965.

　　The prototype of "Infernal Affairs"

　　After his release from prison, Bulger returned to his old place, South Boston. In the early 1970s, he was introduced to join the notorious gang "Winter Mountain Gang". This gang has done everything from drug trafficking to arms reselling, and has ties to many criminal organizations in North America and Europe, including the Irish Republican Army. Because of his tyrannical temperament and ruthlessness, Bulger quickly established a firm foothold in the "Winter Mountain Gang".

　　At this time, he received an "olive branch" from the FBI. The contact with Bulger was the little boy he met in the ice cream shop and now the FBI Boston branch agent John Connolly. Connolly persuaded Bulger to become an informant of the FBI. Bulger was responsible for tipping off the FBI. Provide information on the movements of criminal gangs in the Boston area, and also use this to eliminate dissidents and expand their territory; Connolly also provided information to Bulger, informing him to change his action plan in time to avoid crashing with the police.

　　In the early 1980s, with this "tacit cooperation", the FBI successfully arrested Howie Winter, the former leader of the "Winter Mountain Gang". Bulger then became the boss and controlled the entire Boston underworld. This legendary past of Bulger was also put on the screen by the famous Hollywood director Scorsese. The police and bandit film "The Departed Affairs" created with Bulger as the prototype won the 79th Academy Awards in 2007 for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing.

　　In the swelling of power, Bulger became more arrogant and brutal. Davis' sister is Bulger's ghost under the knife. For 30 years, Davis has been repeating a sentence: "I pray to God that I will find that demon and strangle him alive, just like he did to my sister!" Davis' sister was a girlfriend of one of Bulger's confidants. In 1981, just after she and her boyfriend broke up, Bulger tricked her into a remote place, broke her fingers, stuck her neck, watched her suffocate to death, and threw the body into a dark graveyard. " She knows too much. "When Bulger talked to his subordinates about this, he only said this lightly.

　　No one can defy what Bulger wants. One day in late 1983, Bulger was racing in South Boston when he suddenly took a fancy to a freshly painted hotel. A month later, he showed up at the hotel owner's house and threw a bag of bills on the dining table. "This is 67,000 dollars, the store is mine, you have to get out of here." The owner begged for mercy, saying he didn't want to sell the hotel on which he depended, but when he looked up, he immediately changed his mind - Bulger took his 2-year-old daughter in his lap and pulled out a pistol for her to play with. The ignorant child opened his mouth and went to suck the muzzle of the gun, while Bulger slowly put his finger on the trigger and pointed his eyes at the father like a skate.

　　However, Bulger's heyday was fleeting, and his "honeymoon period" with the FBI came to an end with the retirement of Connolly. In the early 1990s, the FBI arrested Bulger on charges of extortion, fraud, murder and drug dealing. Bulger, who got the news from Connolly, fled Boston with his mistress Katherine Gregg, 21 years his junior, and began a career on the run.

　　Old murderer

　　According to the FBI's intelligence determination, Bulger has appeared in various states in the United States. In addition, he has been to at least 25 countries. Although the FBI offered a reward of 2 million dollars to take his head, the gang boss was cunning and went unpunished for a long time.

　　After bin Laden was killed in May 2011, the FBI raised Bulger to the top of the Ten Most Wanted list and launched a powerful hunt for him, including posting messages online and broadcasting 30-second ads against Greg in 14 cities, asking the public to provide clues, so that the large-scale and high-density casting of the net really had an echo. FBI agents received key news on the evening of June 21 and locked the hiding place of Bulger and Greg: the two were in Santa Monica under pseudonyms. Monica rented two bedrooms and one living room, with $800,000 in cash in the bedroom and a daily necessities bag for a quick escape. There were more than twenty pistols hidden in the study.

　　After Bulger and Greg were arrested, the neighbors around them couldn't help but feel terrified. Mora, who lives across the door from them, said: "The male owner loves dogs and wears sunglasses all year round. Sometimes he meets in the elevator, and he just nods. His lifestyle is very strict. When he sees an alcoholic who is very drunk, he will mumble endlessly, and he will yell at the waiter because the underwear straps of the waiter are exposed. Our children have also gone to their house to play. The old couple are like kind grandparents and advise the children to watch less violent movies."

　　Neighbor Katarina said she and Greg had always had a good relationship. "She was a beautiful woman and friendly, and the old man was dressed like a gentleman and looked like a retired college professor. They never bought new furniture, They don't have a car, and they walk everywhere. The old man has heart problems and recently had mild Alzheimer's symptoms."