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Whitey Bulger Says Man Convicted In Killing Is Innocent

Bulger Says Other Convicted Killer Is Innocent
FILE - This file June 23, 2011 booking photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows James "Whitey" Bulger, captured in Santa Monica, Calif., after 16 years on the run. Bulger, the former Boston crime boss was moved to a federal prison in Oklahoma on Monday Dec. 16, 2013, although it was not immediately clear why. The 84-year-old Bulger was being held at FTC Oklahoma City, according to Chris Burke, a spokesman for the federal Bureau of Prisons. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service, File)
FILE - This file June 23, 2011 booking photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows James "Whitey" Bulger, captured in Santa Monica, Calif., after 16 years on the run. Bulger, the former Boston crime boss was moved to a federal prison in Oklahoma on Monday Dec. 16, 2013, although it was not immediately clear why. The 84-year-old Bulger was being held at FTC Oklahoma City, according to Chris Burke, a spokesman for the federal Bureau of Prisons. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service, File)

BOSTON (AP) — 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.

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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