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  • n  a professional killer
  • n  one whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior
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  • Whitey Bulger, ex-protege erupt in courtroom
    Forensic anthropologist Ann Marie Mires, who assisted with the January 2000 exhumation of three of James “Whitey” Bulger’s alleged murder victims from the mud flats by the Southeast Expressway, takes the stand today on the heels of yesterday’s raging, expletive-laced courtroom exchange between Bulger and Kevin Weeks, the protege he raised from teenhood to hatchet man.
    July 10, 2013 - Boston Herald

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