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- Chief suspect, Albert DeSalvo confessed, recanted and was never convicted. Now DNA evidence has confirmed he killed victim Mary Sullivan. In 2012, DNA from seminal fluid was prised from Sullivan’s remains by two US forensics labs, using new means to derive profiles from old DNA. Both found the same DNA profile.
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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 · Solving Cold Cases with DNA: The Boston Strangler Case. NIJ funding helped the Boston Police Department solve a rape and murder case almost 50 years after the crime. Download and print. March 3, 2014. By. Phil Bulman. Thinkstock, royalty-free ( see reuse policy ). This was a ghastly crime.
Jul 12, 2013 · The new testing brings an element of modern scientific proof to one murder in a case that seemed likely never to be solved, especially after Mr. DeSalvo was killed in 1973 in prison, where he...
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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.
Jul 19, 2013 · BOSTON (CBS/AP) - DNA evidence has definitively linked Albert DeSalvo to the death of Mary Sullivan, a woman believed to be the Boston Strangler's last victim, authorities announced Friday.
Jul 24, 2013 · Earth. Society. DNA finally nails the notorious Boston Strangler. 24 July 2013. BETWEEN 1962 and 1964, the Boston Strangler killed at least 11 women. Chief suspect, Albert DeSalvo confessed,...
Jul 11, 2013 · The case of the Boston Strangler — the serial killings of 11 women in the early 1960s, some choked to death with their own nylon stockings — has never truly been solved. An inmate...
