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      • Investigators exhumed DeSalvo's remains for DNA testing last Friday after new evidence surfaced in the case. The breakthrough happened after scientific advances that authorities said became possible only recently. Police secretly followed DeSalvo's nephew to collect DNA from a discarded water bottle to help make the connection.
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  2. The Boston police chief transferred nearly all his department’s resources to the search for the so-called “mother killer.”. Then, in December, a young woman was killed, and three weeks later a 23-year-old woman was found strangled. Subsequent victims included women of a range of ages.

  3. During this spree, DeSalvo, while dressed in green, broke into over 400 homes and sexually assaulted over 300 women. While police throughout New England were in search of the “Green Man”, Boston homicide detectives continued their search for the “Boston Strangler.”

  4. 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...

  5. 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.

  6. Apr 2, 2014 · Between June 1962 and January 1964, a series of grisly murders took place in the Boston area. All 13 victims were women, and all but two had been strangled (accordingly, the Boston Strangler...

  7. Mar 5, 2023 · Updated June 7, 2023. Police believe Albert DeSalvo was likely the Boston Strangler, but questions still remain about the true identity of this infamous 1960s serial killer. In 1960s Boston, women across the city flooded stores in search of one thing: locks.

  8. 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...

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