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Mar 3, 2014 · In 2009 and 2012, the city of Boston received competitive grants under NIJ's cold case program. 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.
Jul 11, 2013 · Main events in the case of the Boston Strangler: Jan. 4, 1964 — Mary Sullivan, 19, the last of the 11 victims, found murdered in her apartment in the Beacon Hill section of Boston. 1965 ...
Feb 2, 2024 · 5 min. Former president Donald Trump’s March 4 trial date on charges of plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election in D.C. has been taken off the calendar, a formal acknowledgment...
May 14, 2022 · For Boy #402 was Albert DeSalvo, soon to be known to all the world as the Boston Strangler, one of the city’s few, truly notorious criminals who would claim credit for 11 killings — including ...
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The statistics for the entirety of Donald Trump’s time in office are nearly all compiled. As we did for his predecessor four years ago, we present a final look at the numbers. 1. The economy lost 2.9 million jobs. The unemployment rate increased by 1.6 percentage points to 6.3%. 2. Paychecks grew faster than inflation. Average weekly earnings for a...
In the fall of 2020, we published a preelection update to our quarterly “Trump’s Numbers” series, and on President Joe Biden’s inauguration, we examined several statistical indicators on what he inherited. But as we noted then, the books weren’t yet closed on the Trump presidency. It takes several months for some of the data to be finalized. While ...
As a candidate, Trump proclaimed: “I am going to be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.” As president, Trump saw 100 months of continuous U.S. monthly job gains end in February 2019 as the economy slowed. In 2020, job growth collapsed entirely when COVID-19 went from being a localized problem in Wuhan, China, to a global pandemic. Em...
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. economy began slowing down. Thereal (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product went up in Trump’s first two years, peaking at an estimated 2.9% in 2018 — the highest since 2005. But the economy grew only 2.3% in 2019and the bottom fell out in 2020. The real GDP declined 3.4% in 2020 from the previous yea...
Household Income— Household income rose briskly under Trump before declining last year due to the pandemic. The Census Bureau’s latest report on “Income and Poverty in the United States,” which was released Sept. 14, showed that median household income reached$67,521 in 2020— a 2.9% decrease from2019 but an increase of $3,838 from 2016 when adjuste...
The growth of federal regulation slowed to a crawl under Trump. The number of restrictive words and phrases (such as “shall,” “prohibited” or “may not”) contained in theCode of Federal Regulationsstayed below 1.08 million for most of 2019— a little below where it was when Trump took office. But as of the day he left office,the count had crept up to...
Murders and aggravated assaults shot up dramatically under Trump, while most other types of crime declined. In his inaugural address, Trump darklyportrayed America as a country mired in poverty, drugs and crime. “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now,” he promised. But quite the contrary, the FBI’s annualCrime in the United Sta...
Sales and production of guns slowed during Trump’s presidency — until COVID-19 concerns and protestsagainst policing triggered huge spikes last year. Handgun Production — In 2020, the annual production of pistols and revolvers in the U.S. set a new record of 6.3 million, according to interim figures from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and...
Illegal border crossings, as measured by apprehensions at the Southwest border, were 14.7% higher in Trump’s final year in office compared with the last full year before he was sworn in. That’s how we’ve been calculating this statistic going back to our “Numbers” articles for Obama. Although Trump boastedduring a speech in Alamo, Texas, just a week...
After-taxcorporate profitsset new records in the first two years of Trump’s presidency — but declined slightly in 2019 and fell further still in 2020, when the pandemic forced businesses to close, some permanently. Still, after-tax corporate profits were higher when Trump left office than when he arrived. Corporate profits hita record $1.98 trillio...
Mar 17, 2023 · On October 27, 1964, DeSalvo was arrested after a victim he raped reported him to the police. According to The New York Times, DeSalvo confessed the details of the slayings of 13 women to a ...
Jul 19, 2013 · DeSalvo admitting killing Sullivan in January 1964 and 10 other women in the Boston area between 1962 and 1964 in a series of slayings that became known as the Boston Strangler case.
