LAKEVILLE, Mass. (
MyFoxBoston.com) -- James "Whitey" Bulger murdered 11 people and yet he took the time to write - not to those victims' families - but to three local high school students.
Bulger sent the girls, who attend Apponequet Regional High School in Lakeville, a handwritten letter after they wrote to him for a National History Day competition.
They had to chose a figure they wanted to learn about leadership and legacy from.
When they wrote to Whitey, they didn't expect to hear back.
Instead, within a week, he wrote back telling the girls "don't waste your time" on him.
"My life was wasted and spent foolishly, brought shame and suffering on my parents and siblings," Bulger wrote in his letter.
Bulger told them they'd be better off spending their efforts focusing on wounded American soldiers at Walter Reed Medical Center for their project.
The girls told FOX25's Heather Hegedus that it gave them a different perspective on the convicted mobster.
At the end of July, a federal appeals court is scheduled to hear arguments in Bulger's appeal of his 2013 conviction.
The 85-year-old is currently serving two consecutive life sentences in a Florida prison, and also wrote in the letter to the girls that his life "will end soon."
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