During the early sixties, there was a wave of terror in the city of Boston. For two years women from the lower middle-class neighborhoods were being found murdered. The serial killer was given the name the Boston Strangler because most of the victims were strangled. The horrendous crimes were connected to a man named Albert DeSalvo, who had confessed to the killings. There was a lack of physical evidence to charged Albert DeSalvo for the murders, however, he was charge for other crimes. The Boston Strangler’s first victim was 55-year-old Anna Slesers on June 14, 1962. The police discovered she was raped and strangled by her own belt that was tied in a bow. Throughout the victim’s house drawers were opened and possessions were scattered on the ground, and thus the police …show more content…
It was uncovered that Sullivan was murdered with her nylon stockings in another part of the house and then she was dumped in the bathroom. Her body was positioned in a kneeling posture. What confused the authority was DeSalvo’s next choice of victim. The previous victims shared common characteristics such as being Caucasian and elderly. On the other hand, Sophie Clark was only twenty years old and she was black. Like the previous cases there was no sign of forced entry, DeSalvo managed to convince Clark that he was in charge of a model agency. DeSalvo seized the opportunity to strangle the woman while she had her back to him. Clark’s roommate found her body in the living room with a pair of stockings tied around her neck. On December 31, 1962, Patricia Bissette was murdered in the same manner, however, she was not left exposed, but instead a blanket covered her. The reason Bissette was covered was because DeSalvo felt guilty. In his perspective Bissette was different from the rest of his victims because she treated him like a man. In the year of 1962, The Boston Strangler’s method of killing was strangulation with an