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Mar 3, 2014 · In 2009 and 2012, the city of Boston received competitive grants under NIJ's cold case program. 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.
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 ...
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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. [2]
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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Jul 11, 2013 · By Jennifer Preston. The filmmaker Myles David Jewell described the Boston Strangler case that was investigated by his grandfather, a Boston police detective, in the early 1960s. Four years ago, Myles David Jewell, a 31-year-old filmmaker, began combing through his late grandfather’s old police files on the Boston Strangler case from the ...
Jul 12, 2013 · Sullivan, 19, was found strangled in her Boston apartment in January 1964. She had long been considered the strangler's last victim. The announcement represented the most definitive evidence yet ...
Jul 11, 2013 · 50 Years Later, a Break in a Boston Strangler Case. By JESS BIDGOOD. Published: July 11, 2013. BOSTON — Investigators said Thursday that they had linked the man believed by many to have been the Boston Strangler to DNA found in the home of a woman thought to be the Strangler’s last victim in a string of unsolved murders that petrified this ...
