Whitey Bulger was murdered just SIX MINUTES into his first full day at violent prison

Boston gangster Whitey Bulger was murdered by prison inmates just six minutes after his cell doors was unlocked on his first morning at West Virginia’s notoriously violent Hazelton Prison.

The shocking timeline was revealed as US attorneys asked a Florida judge that one of the alleged accomplices to Bulger’s murder, former Hazelton inmate Sean McKinnon, be detained until his trial. McKinnon, 36, was released from prison earlier this year after completing his prior sentence.

McKinnon, who was accused of serving as lookout while Bulger, 89, was beaten to death with a belt, is one of three men charged last week in the 2018 October murder.

Paul J. ‘Pauly’ DeCologero, 48, and Fotios ‘Freddy’ Geas, 55, were charged with viciously beating and stabbing wheelchair-Bulger to death in his prison cell on the morning of October 30, 2018.

The murder occurred less than 12 hours after Bulger was transferred to Hazelton Prison, with his alleged killers said to have known of his impending arrival. 

McKinnon – who acted as lookout – was heard discussing Bulger’s arrival with his mom over the phone in a recorded call, with his mother urging him not to get involved.

 Bulger had previously been serving out his life-sentence for 11 murders in units reserved for high-risk inmates such as informants or pedophiles, but was placed among the general population in Hazelton – a decision that ultimately proved fatal. 

The timeline showed Bulger arrived at Hazelton Prison at 8:30pm on October 29. It is unclear what time prisoners were locked up for the evening.

But at 5am the following morning, cellmates Geas and McKinnon were seen on surveillance meeting in their cell with DeCologero. 

At 6am all cell doors in the prison unit were unlocked so inmates could leave for breakfast. Then at 6:06am Geas and DeCologero entered Bulger’s cell and remained within for seven minutes, leaving at 6:13am. 

McKinnon did not join, but sat at a table where he could see both the unit’s officers station and into Bulger’s cell. 

Bulger was murdered during his first full day at the notoriously-violent Hazelton Federal Correctional Institution (pictured)

 The three men were all charged with conspiracy to kill Bulger last week. DeCologero and Geas were charged with aiding and abetting first degree murder. McKinnon was charged with lying to the FBI.

Geas, a known Mafia enforcer from Massachusetts, is serving a life sentence for a pair of gang-related murders. 

DeCologero, a member of a Massachusetts gang which robbed rivals and then murdered a teenage girl who they thought knew too much, has four years left on a 25-year sentence for his involvement in that crime.

Prosecutors allege that all three men admitted to fellow inmates that they were responsible for Bulger’s murder, and that McKinnon intimated to his mother the night before the slaying that he was going to be involved in it.

During Monday’s hearing, Assistant US Attorney Hannah Nowalk detailed McKinnon’s call to his mother, in which he said inmates were ‘getting ready to get another higher-profile person here tonight.’

When McKinnon’s mother told him to steer clear of the notorious Boston mobster, he told her ‘Ah, I can’t,’ noting that his cellmate – Geas – was ‘a henchman for a mob family out of New York and Boston,’ and repeated that the entire unit knew of Bolger’s arrival. 

Nowalk characterized this call as evidence that inmates immediately began plotting to murder Bolger the moment news of his impending arrival reached the unit. 

Attorney for Bulger, Hank Brennan, called the charges against the men ‘inconsequential,’ saying the Bulger family blames the death on the Bureau of Prisons and its decision to move Bulger from a secure unit.

Bulger – whose real name was James – led the Winter Hill Gang in Somerville, Massachusetts. 

He was blamed for 19 murders and went on the run in 1994 after being tipped-off to an impending FBI sting by a Bureau agent who he’d previously snitched to. 

Bulger remained at large until 2011, with the wheelchair-bound gangster handed two life sentences in November 2013.