Boston strangler anna slesers biography

  • 1 Names · 2 Events · 3 Victims · 4 DeSalvo's confession · 5 Multiple-killer theories · 6 DNA evidence · 7 In popular culture · 8 See also.
  • The notorious serial killer's deeds have been the subject of several movies and books, including The Boston Strangler () starring Tony.
  • The killer had also been called 'the phantom fiend' and 'the silk stocking strangler' but Boston Strangler fit on a headline.

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    Throwback Thursday: The First Victim of the Boston Strangler Is Found

    Anna Slesers was discovered dead on the floor of her Back Bay apartment. She was the first of 13 women to be murdered during a spree that paralyzed the Hub with fear.

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    Albert DeSalvo (center) confessed to strangling 13 women to death. / Photo via Wikimedia Commons

    Anna Slesers was a seamstress. She was a mother. She was supposed to be at a church memorial service.

    But Anna Slesers became a victim.

    On June 14, , Slesers’ year-old son found her strangled to death on the kitchen floor of her Gainsborough St. apartment. The year-old’s blue housecoat had been ripped open, its belt tied hauntingly around her neck in the shape of a bow. Slesers had no enemies, her son told the Boston Globe.

    A dozen other women between the ages of 19 and 85 would meet the seamstress’ fate over the next 19

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    Albert DeSalvo

    American rapist and suspected serial killer (–)

    Albert DeSalvo

    DeSalvo after escaping Bridgewater State Hospital and being caught in Lynn, Massachusetts, in

    Born

    Albert Henry DeSalvo


    ()September 3,

    Chelsea, Massachusetts, U.S.

    DiedNovember 25, () (aged&#;42)

    Walpole, Massachusetts, U.S.

    Cause&#;of deathStabbing
    Other&#;names
    • The Boston Strangler
    • Mad Strangler of Boston
    • The Measuring Man
    • The Green Man
    Criminal penaltyLife imprisonment
    Victims1 (confirmed), 12 more (suspected)

    Span&#;of crimes

    		June 14, &#;– January&#;4,
    CountryUnited States
    State(s)Massachusetts

    Date apprehended

    		October 27,

    Albert Henry DeSalvo (September 3, – November 25, ) was an American murderer and rapist who was active in Boston, Massachusetts, in the early s. He is known to have confessed to being the "Boston Strangler", a serial killer who murdered 13 women in the Boston area between Due to physical

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    Boston Strangler

    Murderer of 13 women in the Boston area

    This article is about the murderer. For the film, see The Boston Strangler (film). For the film, see Boston Strangler (film).

    The Boston Strangler is the name given to the murderer of 13 women in Greater Boston during the early s. 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 the years following DeSalvo's conviction – but prior to the emergence of this DNA evidence – various parties investigating the crimes suggested that the murders (sometimes referred to as the "Silk Stocking Murders") were committed by more than one person.[3]

    Names

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    Initially, the crimes were assumed to be the work of one unknown person dubbed "The Mad Strangler of Boston".[4] On July 8, , the Sunday Herald wrote that "[a] mad strangler is loose in Boston" in a

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