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The Boston Strangler is the name given to the murderer of 13 women in Greater Boston during the early 1960s. The crimes were attributed to Albert DeSalvo based on his confession, on details revealed in court during a separate case, [1] and DNA evidence linking him to the final victim.
Mar 3, 2014 · The Boston Police Department's cold case squad decided to use some of the NIJ funding to test DNA from a nephew of DeSalvo's and look for a match with seminal fluid that had been found on Sullivan's body and on a blanket at the crime scene. When forensics experts ran the test, they got a hit.
Jul 11, 2013 · Tim DeSalvo – whose uncle Albert DeSalvo had confessed to being the internationally notorious Boston Strangler – gave police the DNA evidence investigators needed to exhume his body to bring closure to a case that has been a mystery for nearly 50 years.
After nearly 50 years, no one has ever been charged as the Boston Strangler. In July 2013, the Boston Police Department believed that they had discovered DNA evidence linking Albert DeSalvo to Mary Sullivan, who had been raped and strangled in 1964 – the final victim of the Boston Strangler.
By January 1964, 13 women were dead, and the Massachusetts attorney general, Edward Brooke, had taken charge of the investigation personally. In 1965 Albert DeSalvo, an inmate at a state mental hospital who had a history of burglary dating from the 1950s, confessed to the murders.
- John Philip Jenkins
Jul 11, 2013 · In an 80-minute documentary called “Stranglehold: In the Shadow of the Boston Strangler,” they describe how Mr. DeSalvo became a suspect in the slayings of 11 women from 1962 to 1964, a...
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Jul 12, 2013 · Boston police officers said DNA found at the home of the woman thought to be the final victim of the notorious killer has been matched to Albert DeSalvo, who confessed to the crimes.
