'Whitey' Bulger backs claims of Boston man who says he didn't commit 1980 slaying in Braintree
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A Boston man who has spent more than 30 years in prison for a killing he says he didn't commit has an unusual ally in his quest to exonerate himself — convicted mobster James "Whitey" Bulger (BUHL'-jur).
Robert LaMonica was gunned down in Braintree in 1980. The now 62-year-old Fred Weichel (WY'-kuhl) was convicted the following year based largely on testimony from a teenager who said he saw the gunman jump into a waiting car and identified him as Weichel.
The Boston Globe (http://b.globe.com/1h75fI3 ) reports that in a series of letters sent from jail last fall, Bulger wrote that the real killer was an unnamed friend of Weichel's.
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Bulger says he's familiar with the slaying because he played an indirect role in it.
Weichel's lawyer shared the information with the Globe.
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Information from: The Boston Globe, http://www.bostonglobe.com