Anna Bjornsdottir collected the $2 million reward the feds were
giving to anyone who can lead them to Whitey Bulger. As of late the feds have released her name to the public which makes no sense to me. There is a good chance someone might want to collect money from her. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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A former Miss Iceland who appeared in an episode of the 1980s detective series “Remington Steele” is the mysterious tipster who brought down South Boston’s most notorious gangster.
Anna Bjornsdottir, 57, collected $2 million in reward money for leading federal authorities to James “Whitey” Bulger’s modest, black-curtained hideout in Santa Monica in June, The Boston Globe reported.
The beautiful blonde yoga instructor splits her time between Iceland and a Santa Monica residence near the apartment where Bulger, 82, and his girlfriend Catherine Greig posed as a retired couple during their 16 years on the lam, The Globe said.
Bjornsdottir befriended the normally reclusive Greig over their shared love of local stray cat. She discovered Greig’s true identity when she visited Iceland this summer and saw a CNN report about the “most wanted” gangster charged with killing 19 people, The Globe reported.
She knew the fugitive couple as Charlie and Carol Gasko.
Bjornsdottir, who won the Miss Iceland crown in 1974 and was voted Miss Congeniality in a Miss Universe pageant, also appeared in a Noxzema commercial and two episodes of “Fantasy Island” under the name Anna Bjorn.
Bulger, the former leader of the Winter Hill Gang, has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the 19 murders.
Authorities found the walls of his $863-per-month Santa Monica apartment stuffed with guns, knives and more than $800,000 in cash.
Greig has pleaded not guilty to a conspiracy charge.
