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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.
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]
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 ...
Albert DeSalvo reportedly raped and killed 13 women as the Boston Strangler. Read ahead for a complete timeline of the Boston Strangler's victims.
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 ...
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 ...
Hulu's latest true crime thriller, "Boston Strangler," recounts the infamous murders that transpired throughout the area in the early 1960s.
Under the condition, imposed by DeSalvo's defense counsel, that none of what comes to light is admissible evidence in court, Bottomly is allowed a final round of interviews with DeSalvo. After several sessions, Bottomly manages to reveal DeSalvo's hidden personality to himself. Reeling from the shock, DeSalvo slips into a catatonic state.