Three inmates indicted in prison homicide of Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger

Three men were indicted Thursday in the 2018 beating death of a fellow inmate, the famed Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger, the Department of Justice said in a release Thursday. Fotios "Freddy" Geas, 55, Paul "Pauly," J. DeCologero, 48 and Sean McKinnon, 36, were all charged with conspiracy to commit first degree murder.  

According to the Department of Justice, Geas, DeCologero and McKinnon were inmates at United States Penitentiary Hazleton in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, when they allegedly killed Bulger in October 2018.

Geas and DeCologero are accused of striking Bulger over the head repeatedly, causing the injuries that led to his death. He was 89.