For families, Bulger verdict brings closure, angst


August 13, 2013 at 9:45a.m.

For families, Bulger verdict brings closure, angst

BOSTON (AP) - The guilty verdicts against James “Whitey” Bulger brought catharsis and closure to relatives of the 11 victims in whose killings he was convicted of playing a role, but for the families of the eight people whose deaths couldn’t be definitively linked to the Boston mob boss, peace will be harder to come by. Steve Davis didn’t wait for the jury to be dismissed before he walked out of the courtroom, appearing upset it had issued no finding in the 1981 strangulation of his sister Debra.