Boston Mob Boss Whitey Bulger Killed In West Virginia Prison

Bulger was later identified as the dead man, although officials released no details surrounding his sudden, shocking and violent demise. Bulger, previously held in Florida, was convicted of 11 murders himself during his bloody reign as crime boss in his hometown of Boston.

The federal Bureau of Prisons did not return a call and an email for confirmation. Hazelton is home to about 1,300 inmates.

The blood-thirsty Bulger ran Boston’s powerful Irish mob, the Winter Hill Gang, while simultaneously working as an informant for a local FBI agent. Most of his tips steered investigators toward Italian organized crime, clearing the way for Bulger’s group to grab hold of the city’s illegal operations from gambling to drugs.

The corrupt relationship between the fed and the felon became the movie “Black Mass,” with Johnny Depp — hair slicked back and sunglasses perched on his nose — playing Bulger.

Bulger spent 16 years on the FBI’s Most Wanted list after going on the lam, fleeing his hometown as the feds closed in. He was busted in 2011 in California and convicted two years later for an assortment of crimes including the homicides.

His legend only grew as Bulger evaded arrest after his disappearance, with endless reported sightings around the U.S. and the world. One tipster insisted spying Bulger inside a Boston movie theater in 2006, watching the Martin Scorsese movie “The Departed” — where Jack Nicholson played a mob boss based on the fugitive son of South Boston.

Bulger was behind only 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden for much of his time on the FBI’s list of fugitive criminals.

He bolted Boston in 1995 after a warning from Agent John Connolly, who wound up behind bars over his crooked relationship with the gangster.

Bulger became a lingering embarrassment to the feds as he remained on the run, with a $2 million reward posted for information on the globe-trotting gangster. Prior to his arrest, the last confirmed Bulger sighting came in London in 2002.