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Albert DeSalvo was born on September 3, 1931, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, as the third of six children to Charlotte (née Roberts) and Frank DeSalvo. [4] DeSalvo's father was a violent alcoholic who abused his wife; in one of the many times he attacked her in front of the children, he knocked out all her teeth and bent her fingers back until they broke. [5]
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.
Albert DeSalvo reportedly raped and killed 13 women as the Boston Strangler. Read ahead for a complete timeline of the Boston Strangler's victims.
Albert DeSalvo: United States 1956–1964 3+ Known as "The Measuring Man" and "The Green Man". Serial rapist and serial sexual assailant of women in Boston, Massachusetts, as well as prime suspect of the Boston Strangler murders. Started shortly after his military discharge with a series of molestations of women in their homes, pretending to be ...
In the mid-1960s, Massachusetts native Albert DeSalvo confessed to the murders of 13 women. At the time, DeSalvo was an inmate at Bridgewater State Prison for a separate string of crimes ...
When he was caught, he told the police everything about Payton's murder and confessed to other murders — the deaths of Venora Hyatt and Patricia Hitt. ... Police arrested Albert DeSalvo for ...
Albert DeSalvo was arrested in Cambridge, Massachusetts, while trying to break into a house. Confessing to be a sexual predator who had been nicknamed "the Measuring Man", DeSalvo spent a year in jail. For 18 months following his release, thirteen local women were sexually assaulted and murdered.
More than 60 years after the Boston Stranger took their first of at least 11 victims, no charges have ever been brought. A new Hulu film starring Keira Knightley tells the story of Loretta ...