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  1. nij.ojp.gov › topics › articlesSolving Cold Cases with DNA: The Boston Strangler Case

    Mar 3, 2014 · Thanks to these cold case funds and the latest Y-STR technology, the Boston Police Department was able to solve the mystery surrounding Mary Sullivan almost 50 years after her death. For More Information. Read more about the Solving Cold Cases with DNA program. To learn more about STR analysis, read "STR Analysis" from issue 267 of the NIJ Journal.

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  3. abcnews.go.com › US › boston-strangler-case-solvedBoston Strangler Case Solved 50 Years Later - ABC News

    Jul 11, 2013 · This Feb. 25, 1967, file photo shows self-confessed Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo minutes after his capture in Boston. Diane Dodd and son Casey Sherman hold a photo of Dodd's sister Mary ...

  4. www.crimemuseum.org › the-boston-stranglerThe Boston Strangler - Crime Museum

    The Boston Strangler. From June 1962 through January 1964, 13 single women between the ages of 19 and 85 were murdered throughout the Boston area. Many people believed that at least 11 of these murders were committed by the same individual because of the similar manner in which each murder was committed. It was believed that the women, who all ...

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  6. www.britannica.com › biography › Boston-StranglerThe Boston Strangler | Suspects, Victims, and Facts | Britannica

    The case and DeSalvo’s life were portrayed in the 1968 film The Boston Strangler. DeSalvo was murdered in Walpole State Prison in 1973. DeSalvo was viewed as a textbook case of a sexually motivated serial murderer, a seemingly ordinary man who was nevertheless capable of outbursts of savage violence. Yet DeSalvo’s guilt was controversial at ...

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  7. www.ojp.gov › library › publicationsSolving Cold Cases with DNA: The Boston Strangler Case

    Mar 1, 2014 · The Boston Police Department's cold case squad decided to use some of the NIJ funding to test DNA from a nephew of DeSalvo's in order to seek a match with seminal fluid that had been found on Sullivan's body and a blanket at the crime scene; they got a match. The match was possible because of years of NIJ DNA funding of research on Y-STRs.

  8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Boston_StranglerBoston Strangler - Wikipedia

    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]

  9. www.nytimes.com › 2013/07/12 › us50 Years Later, a Break in a Boston Strangler Case

    Jul 12, 2013 · Don Hayes, of the Boston Police Department crime lab, found the blanket among a trove of police evidence in 1998, and the department received slides with the sample taken from Ms. Sullivan’s ...