Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Ex-Miss Iceland named as tipster on US gangster

BOSTON (AP) — A newspaper's revelation that the tipster who led the FBI to notorious gangster James "Whitey" Bulger is a former Miss Iceland is raising concerns about her safety and whether the leak might discourage people from coming forward in other high-profile cases.

The Boston Globe on Sunday named Anna Bjornsdottir, who met Bulger and his girlfriend in California, as the person who led the FBI to them after a hunt of nearly two decades. Bulger had been wanted in connection with 19 murders.

The 57-year-old Bjornsdottir is a former actress who starred in shaving cream commercials in the 1970s and was crowned Miss Iceland in 1974. The Globe reported that she spent months at …

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