catherine-greig
That blonde with a Boston accent who gets her teeth cleaned once a month is not just committed to good hygiene. She could also be the devoted girlfriend and traveling companion of fugitive gangster James “Whitey” Bulger.
Now, the FBI is hoping Catherine Greig’s vanity could lead agents to the 80-year-old Bulger — a fixture on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list who has eluded capture for more than 15 years.
The FBI posted photos of Greig, 59, a certified dental hygienist, and the gray-haired Bulger in the American Dental Association’s May publication of News Daily, urging dentists across the United States to be on the lookout for the couple who have been known to pass themselves off as retirees.
“It’s a creative way of getting pictures out in places we’ve never tried before.and to make these photographs go far-reaching,” said Gail Marcinkiewicz, a spokeswoman for the FBI’s Boston office. “We’re just trying various things.”
In a story that ran with the photos in the association’s newsletter, Richard Teahan, a supervisory FBI agent on the multi-agency Bulger Task, said Greig had several porcelain dental implants, had her teeth cleaned monthly, and “Based on her pattern of living prior to flight, she was extremely concerned about her teeth.”
The appeal came a month after the bureau took out a full-page ad in the April-May edition of Plastic Surgery News, asking plastic surgeons worldwide: “Have you treated this woman?”
In that ad, the FBI told plastic surgeons that Greig had previously had breast implants, a face lift, liposuction, and eyelid surgery, raising the possibility that she might be looking to replace the implants she received in 1982 or get a makeover.
Bulger, a longtime FBI informant, fled before his January 1995 federal racketeering indictment in Boston and is wanted for 19 murders in the 1970s and 1980s. The FBI is offering a $2 million reward for his capture. The last confirmed sighting of Bulger was in London in 2002, according to the FBI.
