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  2. Between June 14, 1962, and January 4, 1964, thirteen single women between the ages of 19 and 85 were murdered in the Boston area; their deaths were eventually tied to the Boston Strangler. Most of the women were sexually assaulted in their apartments, before being strangled with articles of clothing.

  3. Jul 11, 2013 · BOSTON July 11, 2013 -- A water bottle recovered from a construction site where Tim DeSalvo – whose uncle Albert DeSalvo had confessed to being the internationally notorious Boston Strangler – gave police the DNA evidence they needed to bring closure to a case that has been a mystery for nearly 50 years, murders for which no one has ever been c...

  4. Apr 2, 2014 · Albert DeSalvo was in and out of legal trouble from an early age. In 1967, he was sentenced to life in prison for crimes not related to the Boston Strangler murders.

  5. Mar 24, 2023 · Under custody for sexual assault charges, DeSalvo confessed to the crimes of the Boston Strangler. However, there wasn't any physical evidence to link him to the crimes. Therefore, DeSalvo was tried for earlier crimes, and not the murders of the 13 women. Here's what really happened to Albert DeSalvo.

  6. 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.

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  7. May 14, 2022 · Deep in an archive kept secret for decades, the author found a stunning trove: social workers’ notes gathered over many years on the early life of Albert DeSalvo, the admitted killer of 11 women...

  8. Boston Strangler. 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. [2]

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