A crack in a hard facade
It was a routine question, meant to ascertain whether she was of sound mind. But when a judge asked Whitey Bulger’s girlfriend, Cathy Greig, if she had ever been treated by a psychiatrist, her mind raced back 28 years, to a triple-decker in Southie, where her brother killed himself. And in that moment, Cathy Greig, the seemingly cold moll of a murderous gangster, did something she had never done in public: she cried.
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