Rich Teahan and Bob Ward: Face to Face with Whitey Bulger

About this episode

This month marks 15 years since the FBI finally captured James "Whitey" Bulger — and Mark sits down with two people at the heart of that story: Rich Teahan, the FBI agent who led the Bulger Task Force, and Bob Ward, the Boston reporter who covered Whitey for 30 years. Their book Face to Face with Whitey Bulger (Exposit/McFarland) goes inside the 16-year manhunt, the breakdown of trust between agencies that let Whitey slip away, the PSA that finally flushed him out, and the six-hour debrief Teahan conducted with him on the jet back to Boston. It's history, true crime, and a surprisingly human story all at once.