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Boston Strangler Cases

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Over about 20 months from 1962 to 1964, 11 women ages 19 to 85 were brutally murdered in Boston and in nearby cities, many were sexually assaulted and killed in their homes. Anna Slesers, Evelyn Corbin, Helen Blake, Ida Irga, Jane Sullivan, Nina Nichols, Patricia Bissette, Sophie Clark, Beverly Samans, Joann Marie Graff, Mary Brown, and Mary Sullivan were all victims of the killer known as “The Boston Strangler.” Albert DeSalvo is the name that’s most associated with the Boston Strangler cases, and although he was never convicted of any of the murders, he did confess to them. Mr. DeSalvo was killed in 1973 in prison, where he was sentenced to life for unrelated sexual assault and robbery charges. During the 1960’s when the murders were first being discovered, the technology was not as …show more content…

According to the Boston Globe, police speculated that she had interrupted a robbery and that the burglar had killed her. Within a few weeks, two women in their 60s were also found sexually assaulted and strangled. Police soon noticed a pattern in how the Boston Strangler sexually assaulted and posed his victims, tying bows around their necks using their stockings or bras. The theory was then proven wrong when two more women were later discovered by police and they had also been killed similarly to Anna. Police have discovered the bodies of 68-year-old Nina Nichols in Brighton and 65-year-old Helen Blake in Lynn. Both women had their stockings tied with a bow around their necks, while Blake also had her bra fastened around hers. Nineteen-year-old Mary Sullivan had just moved from Cape Cod to Boston, where she rented an apartment in the bustling Beacon Hill neighborhood. Within a few days of her arrival in January 1964, she was found dead. Her attacker raped her and strangled her to death. A pattern was emerging of a madman brutalizing unmarried older women in their

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