BOSTON SERIAL KILLER ALBERT DESALVO DID FIRST MURDER WITH RAPE OUT OF 13 ON 1962 JUNE 14 - JANUARY 4,1964
BOSTON SERIAL KILLER ALBERT DESALVO DID FIRST MURDER WITH RAPE OUT OF 13 ON 1962 JUNE 14 - JANUARY 4,1964 Albert Henry DeSalvo (September 3, 1931 – November 25, 1973) was a criminal in Boston, Massachusetts, who confessed to being the "Boston Strangler," the murderer of 13 women in the Boston area from 1962 to 1964. DeSalvo was imprisoned, however, for a series of rapes. His murder confession has been disputed, and debate continues as to which crimes DeSalvo actually committed. In July 2013, a DNA match between seminal fluid found at the scene of the rape and the murder of Mary Sullivan and DNA obtained from DeSalvo's nephew linked DeSalvo to that crime and excluded 99.9% of the remaining population.[1] Authorities exhumed DeSalvo's remains later that month[2] and confirmed the DNA match. Early life DeSalvo was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, to Frank and Charlotte DeSalvo. His father was a violent alcoholic, who at one point knocked out...