Revealed: Mob boss Whitey Bulger died of blunt force trauma to the head just minutes after he was attacked with a lock in a sock at a maximum security prison
- James 'Whitey' Bulger's death certificate was released on Thursday
- The listed cause of death is 'blunt force injuries to the head'
- He was pronounced dead at 8.21am on October 30, less than 24 hours after he had moved to U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton in West Virginia
- Certificate says he died minutes after he was attacked by inmates
- He was brutally beat to death with a padlock in a sock and officers found his body 12 hours later wrapped in a sheet
- Six months after his death, no one has been charged in his death
James 'Whitey' Bulger's death certificate was released on Thursday revealing his cause of death was 'blunt force injuries to the head'
The death certificate of notorious mob boss James 'Whitey' Bulger reveals that he died from blunt force injuries to the head in a gruesome prison attack.
Bulger's death certificate was released on Thursday. He was pronounced dead at 8.21am on October 30 and the manner of death was ruled a homicide.
The document, filed in Suffolk Superior Court, lists the cause of death as 'blunt force injuries to the head' and shows he died within minutes of being attacked by inmates.
The 89-year-old was brutally beaten to death by inmates in his cell at U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton in West Virginia less than 24 hours after he was transferred to the facility.
They brutally attacked the wheelchair-bound Bulger, beat him with a lock in a sock, tried to gouge out the mobster's eyes with a shiv and attempted to cut out his tongue.
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The notorious mob boss died minutes after he was attacked by inmates at USP Hazelton in West Virginia and was pronounced dead at 8.21am on October 30
His body was found wrapped in a sheet 12 hours later by prison officers, who said the gangster was hardly recognizable.
He was killed less than 24 hours after he was transferred to USP Hazelton from a Florida prison.
Although an official motive has not been released, prison officials believe mob retaliation was behind the attack because Bulger turned into an informant and ratted out other mobsters, as per TMZ.
Six months after Bulger's murder, no one has been charged in connection with his death.
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He was killed less than 24 hours after he was transferred to USP Hazelton from a Florida prison. Pictured above being transferred to Hazelton
Six months after Bulger's murder, no one has been charged in connection with his death at USP Hazelton (above) in West Virginia
A potential suspect is Fotios 'Freddy' Geas, a Massachusetts hitman who hates 'rats'.
Bulger was the notorious head of the Irish mob who led a decades-long reign of terror in south Boston from the 70s to 90s.
He on American's Most Wanted fugitive for years as he was on the run, until he was finally captured in 2011 living in Santa Monica.
In 2013 he was convicted for a slew of crimes including at least 11 murders and was sentenced to life behind bars.
His attorney J.W. Carney Jr blamed his death on prison officials.
He said Bulger 'was sentenced to life in prison, but as a result of decisions by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, that sentence has been changed to the death penalty.'
In November 2018 he was buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Boston.
Bulger was the notorious head of the Irish mob who led a decades-long reign of terror in south Boston from the 70s to 90s
Bulger was buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery in the West Roxbury area of Boston
