LAUREN ASTLEY 'TERRIFIED' OF NATHANIEL FUJITA

NOT GUILTY?

HIGH school football star Nathaniel Fujita has pleaded not guilty to the murder of his long time former girlfriend Lauren Astley.
Meanwhile, pals claim the pretty brunette was "afraid" of him.
Her boss told the Boston Herald, Astley was bothered by repeated phone calls and text messages from Fujita in the hours before authorities say he strangled her with a bungee cord, cut her throat and dumped her in a mars.

Store manager Maeghen Reineke, 26, said Fujita wanted to come to the store and speak to her there. “She was just like, ‘No, no, don’t do that. We’ll talk later,’ ” Reineke said. Reineke said Astley told her Fujita “wasn’t acting normal. She wanted to be done with all of it.
She didn’t want anything to do with him.”

Cops claim the 18-year-old was furious about the couple's recent split so he attacked her with a knife, slashing a huge gaping wound into her throat and wrapping a bungee cord around her neck.
A bicyclist found Astley's body in a marshy area near Sudbury, west of Boston, Monday morning.
Searching his home officer's found blood found on a door handle, the kitchen floor, the kitchen sink and a bathroom sink.
They later found Fujita's bloody clothes and sneakers in a crawl space by his bedroom and that the clothes also had dirt consistent with being in a marsh.
According to prosecutors, Astley and Fujita exchanged phone calls while at she was at work and she told co-workers she was going to meet him when her shift was done.
Fujita later told police on three occasions that he had spoken with Astley briefly at his home. He said she had parked her car up the road and left after short, “awkward” conversation.
But Fujita who was accepted and planned to attend Trinity College, where he was recruited to play football, has denied killing  his ex but nonetheless the judge ordered him  held without bail.
He is charged with first-degree murder.

FIRST PIC OF BOSTON MOB KINGPIN WHITEY BULGER

"WHITEY"

MR AND MRS CLAUS

MAYBE life on the lam was good for him, maybe it was the California Sunshine, but in this, his first picture since he was captured he doesn't look so bad for 81. But although he appeared smiling in court yesterday, neighbors of the man they knew as Charles Gasko claimed his health had deteriorated in recent years and he suffered from Alzheimer's disease and emphysema.

According to The Boston Herald: Two weeks ago, they posted a sign on their front door that read: Please do not knock at anytime, a neighbor said.

Januss Goodwin, 61, a retired religious worker who often visited the couple in their apartment, told the paper: "I thought it was because he was so ill that if somebody knocked it might mess up his head.

"I thought they were just nice people. Obviously, I was wrong."

She added his girlfriend, former dental hygienist Catherine Greig "always looked very pretty" but added that the couple never replaced their apartment furniture.

Bulger will now return to Boston where he will face murder charges for at least 19 people and a string of other offenses.