A former Massachusetts neighbor of gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger and his girlfriend Catherine Greig has told RadarOnline.com: “It was common knowledge that they lived here and it appeared that they were not trying to hide.”

Bulger, 81, and Greig, 60, fled their quaint home in the beach town of Quincy in 1995 ahead of his federal racketeering and murder indictments.

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The legendary crime boss and his girlfriend were finally arrested 16 years later in Santa Monica where they had been living in a low key apartment building.