On July 8, 1962, the Sunday Herald devoted an article to “Boston’s Mad Strangler“, a serial killer who had murdered 13 single women aged 19 to 85 in the famous capital of Massachusetts. his victims are sexually assaulted and then strangled at their home. In the absence of traces of break-ins, the police conclude that the victims let in their attacker voluntarily, either because they knew him or because they took him for a service agent. As the crimes continue, panic grips the people of Boston. Some homes are equipped with tear gas, others install new locks when some women move.
It took fifty years to to confuse Boston’s Mad Strangler thanks to its DNA. In a 2013 article in the Boston Herald, we learn that a police officer had recovered a plastic water bottle thrown by a certain Albert DeSalvo, stabbed in prison in 1973. The discovery had immediately reopened the investigation, a Massachusetts prosecutor even authorizing the exhumation of the body of the murderer as part of a new forensic expertise. “DNA taken from a trace of sperm present (…)
TESTIMONY I died for 27 minutes and what I saw left me speechless
Isère: the exhumation of a body might tip several disturbing cases
Finistère: he used his metal detector for very dark reasons
The doctors tell her that her disease is in her head, she is now fighting for her life.
TESTIMONY. “I lost 45 kilos following a vacation ruined by my weight”