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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.
Boston Strangler, American serial killer who murdered at least 11 women in the Boston area between 1962 and 1964. His crimes were the subject of numerous books and a film, though the exact number of victims—as well as his identity—proved a matter of controversy. The Boston Strangler’s first victim,
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.
Mar 17, 2023 · Boston Strangler: Directed by Matt Ruskin. With Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, Chris Cooper, Alessandro Nivola. Loretta McLaughlin was the reporter who first connected the murders and broke the story of the Boston Strangler. She and Jean Cole challenged the sexism of the early 1960s to report on the city's most notorious serial killer.
Apr 2, 2014 · Albert DeSalvo confessed to being the “Boston Strangler,” who killed 13 women in Boston in the early 1960s. He was serving a life sentence when he was murdered.
DeSalvo confessed to being the "Boston Strangler", a serial killer who murdered thirteen women in the Boston area between 1962 to 1964. Because of the lack of physical evidence to support his confession, DeSalvo was prosecuted in 1967 for a series of unrelated rapes. He was convicted and imprisoned for life without parole.
This series of crimes was often referred to as “The Silk Stocking Murders” and the sought after attacker became known as the “Boston Strangler.” A couple of years before “The Silk Stocking Murders” began, a series of sex offenses began in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area.
