MONDAY, JUNE 27, 2011
Volume 10 Issue 192
Santa Monica Daily Press
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Wife of missing man doesn’t believe he will make a return BY KEVIN HERRERA Editor in Chief
DOWNTOWN He went missing more than a year
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ago, and the person who should be the most concerned doesn’t seem to be bothered by her husband’s disappearance, and possible death. “He was pretty mean to me at the very end,” said Santa Monican Marcia Carter, wife for 46 years to Donald Carter, 77, who disappeared June 28, 2010 while hiking near Castaic Lake. “He either ignored me or insulted me. … I’m at peace with it.” Marcia Carter, 82, who lives alone in a Community Corporation of Santa Monica apartment on Fourth Street, has thought of declaring her husband dead, but according to the California Probate Code, she has to wait another four years before doing so. She’s almost certain her husband is gone because he hasn’t used any of their credit cards and,as far as she knows,he didn’t have much cash. She’s on a fixed income, collecting only Social Security benefits for herself. She said the federal government cut off her husband’s Social Security checks after he went missing. “It’s a little hard because he used to do some things in the house like take out the SEE MISSING PAGE 9
New England Mafia is weakened but still pursued after Bulger’s arrest LAURA CRIMALDI Associated Press
BOSTON When James “Whitey” Bulger ruled the streets of South Boston, the New England crime scene was a battleground for a bloody turf war between the Italian Mafia and Irish street crews. But some observers say the organized crime landscape that took shape during Bulger’s 16 years on the lam — ending with his capture days ago in California — is a shell of its former self, hobbling along with “old men in diapers” at the helm.
“It’s over,” said Boston defense attorney Joseph J. Balliro Sr., who represented crime figures Vincent “Jimmy the Bear” Flemmi, an FBI informant believed to have killed at least eight people, and Henry Tameleo, the reputed consigliere of the New England Mafia. Flemmi and Tameleo both died in prison decades ago. A string of prosecutions, gang warfare and the march of time have sent many made men to prison or the grave. The ruthless crime syndicates powerfully depicted in movies including “The Godfather” and “The Departed” have seemingly lost much
of their box office luster in real life. And even the chase of mobsters has been splintered by the terrorism focus put on law enforcement by the Sept. 11 attacks. “They got their hands full with terrorism,” said former Bulger associate John “Red” Shea. “These mob families have been taken apart.” Bulger, 81, was captured Wednesday in Santa Monica, where he apparently had been living for most of the time he was a fugitive. Bulger, who appeared Friday afterPhoto courtesy Toby Terrar
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