Albert DeSalvo "The Boston Strangler": A Natural Born Killer Or The Perfect Scapegoat
Investigating The Inconsistencies In The Boston Stranglers' Confession
As the Strangler’s nickname implies, the victims were killed by strangulation, usually with their own nylon stockings. Sometimes the killer constructed ligatures by weaving together a bunch of smaller ones. According to some sources, the Strangler also had a habit of tying the murder weapons and/or other handy lengths of fabric such as handkerchiefs around the victims’ necks into a bow.
The Boston Strangler’s Modus Operandi
I originally planned for a separate episode to be released before this one as the Halloween special but I got caught up with the research for the Boston Strangler and decided to focus on this instead.
The Halloween special will be released for episode 14 next week and it will be a scary one. Here’s a teaser, our suspect in episode 14 makes whatever Pazuzu Algarad did in his house of horrors look like child’s play. And this suspect will be the 3rd vampire that we have covered in this series so far.
In the 1960s, residents of Boston Massachusetts lived in fear and paranoia after news broke about a series of murders happening almost consecutively in just under 2 years. The victims all of whom were women of status and power were found dead in their homes with seemingly no signs of a break-in or struggle indicating that the victims willingly let their killer in. The killer would be dubbed the Boston Strangler due to his sickening methods of strangling and then ‘decorating’ his victims’ bodies before leaving the scene. The police scrambled to build a profile but despite their best efforts, the Strangler always seemed to be one step ahead.
The people of Boston believed that the Strangler possessed certain supernatural abilities that enabled his escape and just as his name was about to be added to the list of faceless killers together alongside the Servant Girl Annihilator he surprisingly confessed and surrendered.
Albert DeSalvo, a convicted rapist claimed full responsibility for all the killings. He shared pieces of information about his killings and blamed his actions on his insatiable need for sex. There was just one problem, DeSalvo was unable to provide any physical evidence to support his confession and the police were quick to brush this off before haphazardly closing the case. He was later found dead under mysterious circumstances in prison while serving his sentence.
This begs the question, was DeSalvo forced to confess, and was he silenced for trying to tell the truth?
In the dead of the night when all seems quiet and you think you’re safe that’s when evil comes out to play.
Criminal File investigates, Case #13 — The Boston Strangler
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