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Albert Henry DeSalvo (September 3, 1931 – November 25, 1973) was an American murderer and rapist who was active in Boston, Massachusetts, in the early 1960s. He is known to have confessed to being the "Boston Strangler", a serial killer who murdered thirteen women in the Boston area between 1962 and 1964. Lack of physical evidence supported ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Albert DeSalvo confessed to being the “Boston Strangler,” who killed 13 women in Boston in the early 1960s. He was serving a life sentence when he was murdered.
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.
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]
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. Although never actually charged with the killings (investigators at the time were unable to physically link him to the murder scenes), DeSalvo was convicted on charges of sexual assault and sentenced to ...
- John Philip Jenkins
Mar 17, 2023 · In the end it was a confession from Albert DeSalvo while in prison that brought him to their attention. DeSalvo had been arrested by police after raping a woman on October 27, 1964.
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Nov 6, 2022 · Between June of 1962 and January of 1964, 13 women would turn up dead, allegedly at the hands of the same culprit. One man named Albert DeSalvo eventually confessed to all 13 murders, and many assumed the investigation was complete. But the truth of the man’s confession has been disputed for decades.
