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Jul 11, 2013 · An inmate confessed, but authorities have doubted his story for decades.On Thursday, citing advances in DNA testing and their own sleuthing, officials in Massachusetts said they have finally ...
Jul 11, 2013 · BOSTON (CBS/AP) -- One of Boston's most notorious cold-cases got a jump start Thursday as Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley said new DNA technology has allowed investigators to link...
Jul 12, 2013 · BOSTON (AP) — The man who once claimed to be the Boston Strangler has been linked to one of the 11 victims by DNA evidence for the first time, leading to the planned exhumation of his remains and perhaps putting to rest some speculation that he wasn't the notorious killer.
Mar 16, 2023 · The first victim, 55-year-old Anna Slesers, was found strangled with her bathrobe belt on the kitchen floor of her apartment on June 14, 1962. Within a few weeks, two women in their 60s were also ...
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.
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.
The Boston police chief transferred nearly all his department’s resources to the search for the so-called “mother killer.”. Then, in December, a young woman was killed, and three weeks later a 23-year-old woman was found strangled. Subsequent victims included women of a range of ages.
