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Mar 16, 2023 · The Tenacious Women Reporters Who Helped Expose the Boston Strangler. A new film explores Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole’s efforts to unmask a serial killer believed to have murdered 13 women ...
Mar 17, 2023 · March 17, 2023 / 5:41 PM EDT / CBS Boston. BOSTON - As a new movie chronicling a terrifying era in Boston now hits TV, those who lived the story of the Boston Strangler are now speaking up. "There ...
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Jul 12, 2013 · BOSTON (AP) — Investigators helped by advances in DNA technology finally have forensic evidence linking longtime suspect Albert DeSalvo to the last of the 1960s killings attributed to the Boston Strangler, leading many involved in the case to hope that it can finally be put to rest.
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The three journalists primarily featured in “Boston Strangler” were all based on real-life employees of the Boston Record-American. Loretta McLaughlin, played by Keira Knightley, was a reporter at the Record-American, and along with Jean Cole, wrote the definitive account of the case and coined the “Boston Strangler” moniker. After working at the R...
There are two Boston Police figures who feature prominently in “Boston Strangler,” one of which is based on a real figure and one who is a composite of multiple real-life BPD officers. After McLaughlin publishes her first story, her editor catches hell from BPD Commissioner Edmund McNamara, who is played by Massachusetts native Bill Camp (“Joker”)....
Much like in real life, the ending of “Boston Strangler” doesn’t come to any tidy conclusion about who was responsible for the killings. In the film, we see three men who are held up as possible suspects, two of whom existed in real life and one who is a pseudonymous creation. Albert DeSalvo, played by David Dastmalchian (“The Dark Knight”), confes...
While “Boston Strangler” doesn’t provide any definitive answers, it does illustrate how several people close to the case, as well as many amateur sleuths in the present day, have unanswered questions. It also relies on theories put forth in the intervening years that have never been definitively proven. “Boston Strangler” speculates that George Nas...
Mar 20, 2023 · Coon: And Keira was the reason I did [Boston Strangler], aside from Matt Ruskin, our writer-director, who I really adore.He’s a deeply moral filmmaker and a feminist. Absolutely. But of course I ...
Jul 19, 2013 · DNA evidence has definitively linked Albert DeSalvo to the death of Mary Sullivan, a woman believed to be the Boston Strangler's last victim, authorities announced Friday.
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.
