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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.
- First Four Victims: Anna Slesers, Mary Mullen, Nina Nichols, and Helen Blake
- August 1962 Victims: Ida Irga and Jane Sullivan
- Younger Victims: Sophie Clark and Patricia Bissette
- Early 1963 Victims: Mary Brown and Beverly Samans
- Final Victims: Evelyn Corbin, Joann Graff, and Mary Sullivan
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Anna Slesers, a 55-year-old seamstress and devout churchgoer, was the first victim to be murdered on the evening of June 14, 1962. She lived alone in a modest brick house apartment at 77 Gainsborough St. in Boston. Her son Juris was meant to come by to pick her up for a memorial service. When he discovered her body in the bathroom with a cord aroun...
It wasn’t long before McNamara’s fears were realized. A fifth brutal slaying took place at 7 Grove Garden in Boston’s West End on August 19. The victim was 75-year-old widow Ida Irga. She had been strangled, and she was on her back on the floor wearing a brown nightdress, which was ripped and exposed her body. Her legs were apart and resting on two...
Terror spread throughout Boston as the city feared another attack, but it was three months before the Strangler struck again. This time the victim was young. Sophie Clark was a 21-year-old Black student who was very mindful of her safety and rarely dated. Her body was found on December 5, 1962, a few blocks away from the first victim, Sleser. Clark...
Before long, a series of murders started again. This time the body of 68-year-old Mary Brown was found strangled and raped 25 miles north of the city in March 1963. Two months later, the 10th victim, Beverly Samans, was found. The 23-year-old graduate had missed choir practice on the day of her murder, May 8, 1963. Samans was found with her hands t...
On September 8, 1963, in Salem, Evelyn Corbin, youthful-looking 58-year-old divorcee became the latest victim. Corbin was found nude and on her bed face up. Her underwear had been stuffed in her mouth, and again there were traces of semen, both on lipstick stains and in her mouth. Corbin’s apartment had been ransacked in a similar fashion. On Novem...
Article Title:Albert DeSalvo BiographyAuthor:Biography.com EditorsWebsite Name:The Biography.com websiteUrl:https://www.biography.com/crime/albert-de-salvoDeSalvo confessed to being the "Boston Strangler", a serial killer who murdered thirteen women in the Boston area between 1962 and 1964. Because of the lack of physical evidence to support his confession, DeSalvo was prosecuted in 1967 for a series of unrelated rapes.
Mar 17, 2023 · The deal said that DeSalvo would be sentenced to life in prison for the multiple rapes he allegedly committed, but his confession to being the Boston Strangler would not be admissible in...
Mar 17, 2023 · And as it turns out, Albert could be behind both — he confessed to being the Boston Strangler in detail while in custody after a victim positively identified him as her Measuring Man perpetrator.
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.
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Nov 6, 2022 · In an interview in the hospital’s psychiatric ward, Albert DeSalvo admitted on tape to being the Boston Strangler. George Nassar, now in his 80s and suffering from terminal cancer, recalls how Albert DeSalvo confessed the Boston Strangler killings to him in 1965.
