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Loretta McLaughlin (1928 – November 23, 2018) was an American journalist, author and newspaper editor. As a journalist at the Boston Record American, McLaughlin, along with Jean Cole, covered the Boston Strangler murders in 1962. She was the first journalist to connect the murders and break the story about the serial killer.
- Journalist, author
- November 23, 2018 (aged 90), Milton, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Loretta McDermott, 1928, Woburn, Massachusetts, U.S.
Mar 16, 2023 · A new film explores Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole’s efforts to unmask a serial killer believed to have murdered 13 women between 1962 and 1964. Nathan Smith. History Correspondent. March 16,...
Mar 18, 2023 · Loretta McLaughlin was one of the first journalists to report on the Boston Strangler serial killer in the 1960s. She later became a science writer, a medical reporter, and the second woman to be Editorial Page editor at the Boston Globe.
- Shannen Michaelsen
Nov 25, 2018 · Loretta McLaughlin, groundbreaking reporter and former Globe editorial page editor, dies at 90 - The Boston Globe. WATCH LIVE. Testimony continues in Karen Read murder trial. OBITUARY....
- Bryan Marquard
Mar 31, 2023 · Janet Knott. It was their status as “nobodies” that first drew journalist Loretta McLaughlin to the victims of the Boston Strangler, she once wrote. Where an editor saw a handful of unrelated...
Mar 21, 2023 · Keira Knightley plays the lead, Loretta McLaughlin, a reporter for the Record American newspaper in Boston, who writes a four-part story with a colleague, Jean Cole, about a case in which 13...
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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