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Jul 11, 2013 · BOSTON July 11, 2013 -- A water bottle recovered from a construction site where Tim DeSalvo – whose uncle Albert DeSalvo had confessed to being the internationally notorious Boston Strangler – gave police the DNA evidence they needed to bring closure to a case that has been a mystery for nearly 50 years, murders for which no one has ever been c...
Mar 3, 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 and look for a match with seminal fluid that had been found on Sullivan's body and on a blanket at the crime scene.
Updated 6:51 AM PST, January 18, 2017. BOSTON (AP) — Fifty years ago Wednesday, a factory worker who claimed he was the Boston Strangler was sentenced to prison. But questions still remain about Albert DeSalvo’s confession. Many doubt his assertions that he stalked and killed nearly a dozen women in the Boston area in the early 1960s.
Jul 11, 2013 · July 1999 — Boston police reopen the Strangler case, hoping to use DNA technology to analyze evidence from the crimes. Sept. 14, 2000 — The DeSalvo and Sullivan families sue local and state...
Jul 24, 2013 · 24 July 2013. BETWEEN 1962 and 1964, the Boston Strangler killed at least 11 women. Chief suspect, Albert DeSalvo confessed, recanted and was never convicted. Now DNA evidence has confirmed he...
Events. Between June 14, 1962, and January 4, 1964, 13 single women between the ages of 19 and 85 were murdered in the Boston area. Most were sexually assaulted and strangled in their apartments; police believe that one man was the perpetrator.
The Boston Strangler’s first victim, a 55-year-old woman, was sexually assaulted and strangled in her ransacked apartment on June 14, 1962. During the following months, several other women, ranging in age from 65 to 85 years, were murdered in similar circumstances, news of which engulfed the city in panic.
