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As bulger's mob enforcer, kevin weeks said he buried the bodies and moved the cash. weeks was one of the government's star eyewitnesss. last month he came face to face with his one-time crime partner. >> he wasn't the same guy i knew. i mean, he's a lot older, but he had no life in his eyes. he was subdued. he had changed. he just kind of lost the spark. >> reporter: weeks turned against his former boss after learning bulger, who ran a murderous criminal enterprise for 20 years, had spent much of that time as a government informant. the kind of man bulger always referred to as a rat. during th...

And murder and a whole lost of gang crimes i don't have the time to list for you. it's that long. his lawyer says there is absolutely going to be an pa peel, because he says the judge refused to allow whitey bulger to defend himself with the argument that in effect he was given a license to kill by the government. because the government game him immunity for his crimes. that's what he says. deborah feyerick with more on how this drama played out. >> reporter: as whitey bulger's mob enforcer, kevin weeks says he buried the bodies, moved the guns and collected the cash, which bookmakers and busi...

Not been dragged through this process. she was clearly in a lot of emotional pain, erin. >> and let me ask you, i know you had a chance to speak exclusively, deb, with one of bulger's keep mob enforcers, this guy, kevin weeks, which must have been just been a rather bizarre, but fascinating experience. what did he tell you? >> reporter: yeah, it really is. and this is a man who was as close to whitey bulger as anyone. whitey bulger considered him like a son. and i asked him, do you hate whitey bulger? and he said, "no, whitey bulger made me who i am." so those experiences added up to something...

Key eyewitnesss. he described the crime boss firing a machine gun at a victim he lured to a phone booth. mob enforcer saw bulger strangle a woman with his bare hands. her eyes rolling into her head and his lips turned blue. his long time partner described be high he seemed to get after torturing and killing several victims. one of them begged for a bullet to the head after he failed to strangle him with a thick rope. what bothered him was when his partner testified without doubt he and bulger were fbi informants, the worst possibly thing someone from south boston could be.

In 1999. and his reputation as an icon rests on 86 episodes that were unforgettable enough to ensure his place in television history. >> are you anthony soprano? >> did you bring the county with you? >> reporter: as an italian american native son of jersey, gandolfini was literally born to play tony. >> my father i think he is proud. he wouldn't tell me, but i think he is. >> reporter: he kicked around in small parts for a decade before a role as mob enforcer in "true romance" earned him an audition. >> what are you looking at me like that for? >> reporter: his chemistry with edie falco was un...