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Jul 11, 2013 · When it was over, the Boston Strangler had killed 11 women. The case baffled the five separate District Attorney's offices investigating the murders because of the spread-out locations of the victims.
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.
Apr 21, 2023 · Though long one of the prime suspects in the Boston Strangler cases, it wasn’t until July 2013 that investigators were able to finally definitively connect DeSalvo to forensic evidence preserved from seminal fluid found on a blanket covering the last known victim, 19-year-old Mary Sullivan.
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Jul 11, 2013 · Police saved evidence from the rape and murder of Mary Sullivan for almost half a century — semen and scraps from a blanket — and matched it to DNA on a water bottle discarded in the present...
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Jun 17, 2017 · Prosecutors have had almost half a century to figure out who killed Jane Sanders Britton, a Harvard graduate student found bludgeoned to death in her Cambridge apartment one wet, wintry day...
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. Originally, the police believed that one man was the sole perpetrator.
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Jan 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.
