Forensic expert testifies at Whitey Bulger trial

BOSTON (AP) - A former state forensic expert has testified at the racketeering trial of James "Whitey" Bulger that remains found in Boston 13 years ago were those of three people Bulger is accused of killing.

Ann Marie Mires testified Wednesday the bodies were identified as Arthur Barrett, Deborah Hussey and John McIntyre.

Bulger's one-time protege and enforcer, Kevin Weeks, has testified Bulger killed the three in the early 1980s. Weeks said Bulger shot Barrett and McIntyre and strangled Hussey. Weeks said he helped bury them first beneath a South Boston house, then later at a site in Dorchester. Weeks disclosed the location after he began cooperating with prosecutors in 1999.

Mires said Barrett and McIntyre had been shot, but it wasn't possible to tell how Hussey died.

Bulger is accused of playing a role in 19 killings.

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