Laurel J. Sweet is covering the Whitey Bulger trial in Boston for the Boston Herald.
Forensic anthropologist Ann Marie Mires, who assisted with the January 2000 exhumation of three of James “Whitey” Bulger’s alleged murder victims from the mud flats by the Southeast Expressway, takes the stand today on the heels of yesterday’s raging, expletive-laced courtroom exchange between Bulger and Kevin Weeks, the protege he raised from teenhood to hatchet man.
Until Monday, Bulger and Weeks had not laid eyes on each other in more than 16 years. But after first coldly refusing to even acknowledge Weeks’ presence, Bulger yesterday lashed out at the heavy he mentored for 20 years when Weeks, 57, snapped from defense attorneys’ taunts that he was a self-serving, unremorseful back-stabber.
You can read the rest of the story and watch a local TV news clip via the below link:
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/07/whitey_bulger_ex_protege_erupt_in_courtroom
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