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- Part of George Nassar's plan in having DeSalvo confess to being the Boston Strangler is to claim the reward money. Nassar is identified by a victim in a lineup, but he's been serving time in prison and he couldn't have been responsible for all the murders. With Nassar's "help," DeSalvo "remembers" that he committed the murders and confesses.
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For example, she observed that, contrary to DeSalvo's confession to Sullivan's murder, the woman was found to have no semen in her vagina and she was not strangled manually, but by ligature. Forensic pathologist Michael Baden noted that DeSalvo got the time of death wrong.
By January 1964, 13 women were dead, and the Massachusetts attorney general, Edward Brooke, had taken charge of the investigation personally. In 1965 Albert DeSalvo, an inmate at a state mental hospital who had a history of burglary dating from the 1950s, confessed to the murders.
- John Philip Jenkins
Apr 2, 2014 · In 1965, while in police custody at Bridgewater State Hospital before his trial, DeSalvo confessed to being the Boston Strangler and committing all 13 murders.
Mar 5, 2023 · On March 6, 1965, Albert DeSalvo formally confessed to being the Boston Strangler. He said that he had killed 11 suspected Boston Strangler victims, as well as two other women, including 85-year-old Mary Mullen.
- Kaleena Fraga
DeSalvo confessed to being the "Boston Strangler", a serial killer who murdered thirteen women in the Boston area between 1962 to 1964. Because of the lack of physical evidence to support his confession, DeSalvo was prosecuted in 1967 for a series of unrelated rapes.
- Stabbing
- October 27, 1964
- Life imprisonment
- 13
Jul 11, 2013 · Tim DeSalvo – whose uncle Albert DeSalvo had confessed to being the internationally notorious Boston Strangler – gave police the DNA evidence investigators needed to exhume his body to bring closure to a case that has been a mystery for nearly 50 years.
Under hypnosis and a promise of immunity from prosecution, DeSalvo made a series of tape-recorded confessions in which he gave graphic accounts of the Strangler murder scenes, including details that only the killer could have known. These confessions posed an awkward legal problem.
