Paul Davis On Crime: FBI Most Wanted List

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Sunday, May 13, 2012

Most Wanted: How Notorious Boston Mobster Whitey Bulger Evaded Police For 50 Years

Emily Ann Stein at the British newspaper the Daily Mail reports on how Boston mobster Whitey Bulger was able to evade arrest for 50 years.

One of America's most notorious and ruthless gangsters escaped capture by donning disguises, living off hidden safety deposit boxes of cash and serving as a secret informant to the FBI - despite being on top of the their most wanted list.

Massachusetts State Police officer Thomas Foley chronicled his decades long hunt for James "Whitey" Bulger in his new book 'Most Wanted,' telling untold stories of Bulger's life on the lam and how it all began in Boston's Southie neighborhood.

"Whitey Bulger has to be the most cold-blooded killer in Boston's history," Mr Foley writes/ "If he isn't, I wouldn't want to know the guy who is."

You can read the story, view photos and watch a video of police surveillence on Bulger via the below link:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2140379/Revealed-How-Whitey-Bulger-evaded-police-50-years--help-Batmobile-style-car-created-smokescreen.html

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Life On The Lam: James 'Whitey' Bulger Offers New Details About His Life As A Fugitive To Authorities

Shelly Murphy at the Boston Globe reports that James "Whitey" Bulger, 81, the notorious Boston gangster who was on the FBI's Most Wanted List, is providing the FBI with details about his 16 years as a fugitive.

You can read the newspaper story via the below link:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/06/26/bulger_offers_new_details_to_authorities/?page=1

Monday, March 8, 2010

From Criminals to Terrorists, 60 Years of the FBI's Most Wanted Fugitives

The FBI began its "Most Wanted" list of dangerous criminal fugitives in 1950. Today that list includes terrorists like Osama bin Laden.

You can read about the 60 years of the FBI's Most Wanted via the below link:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/fbis-ten-wanted-fugitives-list-turns-60/story?id=9930773

Paul Davis

Paul Davis is a writer who covers crime. He has written extensively about organized crime, cybercrime, street crime, white collar crime, crime fiction, crime prevention, the military, espionage and terrorism. His 'Crime Beat' column, which covers crime news, crime issues and crime prevention in South Philadelphia, appears weekly in the South Philly Review, and his 'On Crime' column, which covers crime in the Greater Philadelphia region, appears weekly at Philly Daily and Broad and Liberty. He is also a longtime contributor to Counterterrorism magazine and writes their online 'Threatcon' column, which covers crime, espionage and terrorism. Paul Davis' crime fiction appears in American Crime Magazine. His work has also appeared in the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Weekly and other publications. As a writer, he has attended police academy training, gone out on patrol with police officers, accompanied detectives as they worked cases, accompanied narcotics officers on drug raids, observed criminal court proceedings, visited jails and prisons, and covered street riots, mob wars and murder investigations. He has interviewed police commissioners and chiefs, FBI, DEA, HSI and other federal special agents, prosecutors, judges, public officials, WWII UDT frogmen, Navy SEALs, Army Delta operators, Israeli commandos, military intelligence officers, Scotland Yard detectives, CIA officers, former KGB officers, film and TV actors, film writers, directors and producers, journalists, novelists and true crime authors, gamblers, outlaw bikers, and Cosa Nostra organized crime bosses. Paul Davis has been a student of crime since he was a 12-year-old aspiring writer growing up in South Philadelphia. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy when he was 17 in 1970. He served aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk during the Vietnam War and he later served two years aboard the Navy harbor tugboat U.S.S. Saugus at the U.S. floating nuclear submarine base at Holy Loch, Scotland. He went on to become the civilian administrative officer of a Defense Department command in Philadelphia, where he oversaw security, safety and other programs for the command's military and civilian employees, and served as an investigating officer, while working part-time as a newspaper crime reporter and columnist. He retired in 2007 after more than 37 Navy/DOD years of service and became a full-time writer. From 1991 to 2005 he was a producer and on-air host of "Inside Government," a public affairs interview radio program that aired on Sunday mornings on WPEN AM and WMGK FM in the Philadelphia area. You can read Paul Davis' crime columns, crime fiction, book reviews and news and feature articles on this website. You can read his full bio by clicking on the above photo (by Brittany Davis-Pearson). And you can contact Paul Davis at pauldavisoncrime@aol.com.

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