(NECN: Alysha Palumbo, Boston) - Years after their brutal murders, the badly decomposed remains of four of James “Whitey” Bulger’s alleged victims were unearthed from two different burial sites in Dorchester, Mass.
Arthur “Bucky” Barrett, John McIntyre and Deborah Hussey were found on a cold, snowy January night in 2000. They were piled on top of each other in a 2.5-foot grave in an empty lot across the street from Florian Hall.
Paul McGonagle’s body was found in September of the same year, buried with his trademark platform shoes on the shore of Tenean Beach, so close to the water’s edge that his bones were too brittle to be tested for DNA.
The victims’ only way to tell the gruesome ways in which they died is in the injuries to their skeletal remains, the teeth ripped from their mouths and the fragments of metal left behind from the bullets fired at them.
On Wednesday, former medical examiner Dr. Anne Marie Mires took the jury through the exhumation of the remains with graphic photos and videos of bones, body bags and torn pieces of clothing.
The testimony was so detailed and the images were so disturbing that, at times, relatives had to leave the courtroom.
Ironically, closure for the families of these victims came through tips from a man who admitted to witnessing the murders of three of them, burying them in a South Boston basement before reburying them in Dorchester.
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Tommy Donahue, the son of another victim, Michael Donahue, said outside court that there is little compassion for Weeks’ cooperation.
“Weeks didn’t do that out of the goodness of his heart, he did that to save his life.”
