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  Serial Killers - Casefiles [De Salvo, Albert - The Boston Strangler]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
De Salvo would spend a little time targeting his victims, gaining admission to the premises under the guise of being an official authorised to carry out business in the unsuspecting victim's home.
For reasons which even De Salvo confessed to not knowing, he would position the victims body, after killing them, in obscene positions in such a way that whoever entered the house after he left would be presented with the shocking sight with no warning.
At this point, De Salvo was not suspected of being involved with the spate of stranglings that had taken place over a period of nearly two years, and wasn't until he was being held on a rape charge that he confessed in great detail his activities as the Boston Strangler.
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 The Boston Strangler
De Salvo was sentenced to life in prison in 1967 and was murdered six years later in his cell.
Lingering doubts remain as to whether De Salvo was indeed the Boston Strangler.
In 1971, De Salvo was commended by the Texas House of Representatives, who claimed he was "officially recognized by the state of Massachusetts for his noted activities and unconventional techniques involving population control and applied psychology." Texan legislator Tom Moore had introduced the measure to demonstrate that insufficient legislative scrutiny was happening.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_boston_strangler.html   (510 words)

  
 Albert De Salvo; Serial Killers A-Z
Albert De Salvo was born in 1931 in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
De Salvo was sentenced to two years for his crimes but served only 10 months before being let out and moving back in with his family.
She gave a description of her attacker to police and De Salvo was soon arrrested, though he was not considered a suspect in the stranglings for some reason.
www.geocities.com /verbal_plainfield/a-h/desalvo.html   (1070 words)

  
 Albert Desalvo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Albert DeSalvo beat his wife and children regularly, and was thrown in jail on two occasions prior to the divorce that split the family in 1944.
Fleeing a record of teenage arrests for breaking and entering, Albert joined the army at age 17 and was stationed in Germany.
Lawyer F. Lee Bailey managed to negotiate a deal in 1967, whereby Albert drew a term of life imprisonment for crimes committed as the "Green Man." Never charged in the Boston stranglings, he was stabbed to death by a fellow inmate at Walpole prison, in November 1973.
www.carpenoctem.tv /killers/desalvo.html   (1107 words)

  
 Case File - Albert DeSalvo
Albert DeSalvo was born on the 3 September 1931, son of Frank DeSalvo, a labourer and plumber, and his wife Charlotte.
Being in a poor area Albert sold himself to homosexuals around the community; he had his first sexual experience when he was about ten, experiencing such things Albert DeSalvo had an unusual sexual appetite that would later drive him to kill.
It was around this time that Albert's rejection of him by his wife got to him and he started his career as the Measuring Man. He got the the idea from a TV show where a photographer auditioned women who wanted to be models by taking their measurements.
www.fortunecity.com /roswell/streiber/273/desalvo_cf.htm   (3511 words)

  
 Directory - Society: Crime: Murder: Serial Murder: Serial Killers: DeSalvo, Albert
De Salvo killed approximately 13 women in the Boston area between June 1962 and July 1964.
De Salvo, Albert - The Boston Strangler  · Includes an overview of victims as well as information on De Salvo's MO and motives.
Albert DeSalvo, The Boston Strangler  · cached · An overview of the crimes committed by DeSalvo.
www.incywincy.com /default?p=348705   (150 words)

  
 The Boston Strangler (1968)
Their breakthrough occurs when boiler maintenance man Albert De Salvo is placed in a psychiatric institution after attempting to break into an apartment and evidence links him to one of the killings.
Several years after the incident a number of speculations emerged that De Salvo was not actually the Boston Strangler - many of the details of his confession do not match and he later recanted his confession anyway - and it was believed that he was an egotist who sought the notoriety of the crime.
In 2001 De Salvo's family in conjunction with the family of victim Mary Sullivan petitioned the courts to have De Salvo's body exhumed so that his DNA could be tested against the Sullivan crime scene.
www.moria.co.nz /horror/bostonstrangler.htm   (927 words)

  
 Buck Mansion - An American Gothic Site: Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide
De Salvo first disguises himself as a janitor at a hospital to spy on Caleb.
That night, after the nurse Sarah has arrived home, de Salvo appears on her door and tells her he's a delivery man and was told to deliver some drugs to her.
De Salvo wants him to summon his sister and when Caleb refuses, he grabs him and demands that he does.
www.ourdramaqueen.com /ag/Guardian/20_Str.htm   (1925 words)

  
 bostonstrangler
In this true story of serial killer Albert De Salvo (Curtis), the self-confessed strangler (murdered and raped 13 women over an eighteen month period in the early 60s), the filmmaker takes some liberties with the truth.
De Salvo's terrible crime spree filled the tabloids with raging headlines back then, and he became a legendary figure in the world of serial killers.
Albert DeSalvo was stabbed to death in prison on November 26, 1973, and mystery still clouds his story as many law experts do not believe he was the killer but that his confessions were the result of a delusional mind.
www.sover.net /~ozus/bostonstrangler.htm   (441 words)

  
 DeSalvo - Boston strangler
Albert De Salvo, known as the Boston Strangler.
De Salvo was a 29 year old father of two, who was married to a German girl he had met while serving a military stint
He had a police record for break and entry, and was, in the eyes of the law, a career burglar.
home.cogeco.ca /~mrcarle/DESALVO.HTM   (666 words)

  
 HBO: Autopsy
Albert De Salvo claimed to be the Boston Strangler and then recanted, but was murdered in prison before he could explain his actions.
De Salvo was murdered in prison after recanting his confession but common wisdom was that he had committed all the murders.
This DNA did not match De Salvo's, and it was not from Mary Sullivan.
www.hbo.com /autopsy/baden/qa_9.html   (1990 words)

  
 Radio National Breakfast
Thirty seven years ago, Albert de Salvo confessed to killing 13 women and became known as the notorious Boston Strangler.
Relatives of both the accused and his victim believe the police and the jury got it terribley wrong and that the real killer, or killers, are still at large.
Daniel Sharp is a Boston lawyer who represents both families and he's told Andrew Coulloupas the examination of de Salvo's DNA should seal their case.
www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/brkfast/stories/s406569.htm   (128 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Legal Affairs (The Ayes of Texas)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
He sponsored a bill praising Albert Salvo, a man whose "unconventional techniques involving population control and applied psychology" had already been noted by the state of Massachusetts.
Salvo is better known as The Boston Strangler.
The joke, of course, was that Albert de Salvo was more commonly known as the Boston Strangler, responsible for the murders of thirteen women in the Boston area between 1962 and 1964.
www.snopes.com /legal/desalvo.htm   (576 words)

  
 Alberto Desalvo The Boston Strangler
Albert DeSalvo was considered the Boston Strangler, responsible for killing 13 women, but he was never charged.
In the early evening of October 27, 1964, Albert Henry De Salvo was posing as a motorist with car troubles while he broke into a home in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
De Salvo claimed he was covering for the real killer.
www.karisable.com /skazdesalv.htm   (1298 words)

  
 The Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo or not? - The Crime library
He told her to assume a different name, leave the area with her children and go into hiding at once to avoid the deluge of publicity that was going to descend upon her if she didn't do what he said.
Well, Albert was starting to think about money: money specifically to support his family while he was in jail.
Not only did Albert confess to the murders of the eleven "official" victims, but he admitted to killing two other women, Mary Brown in Lawrence and another elderly woman who died of a heart attack before he could strangle her.
www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/notorious/boston/11.html   (963 words)

  
 Probe V5N4: Sirhan and the RFK Assassination: Part II: Rubik's Cube   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Bryan was famous for having hypnotized Albert De Salvo, the "Boston Strangler" and claimed to have discovered De Salvo’s motive under hypnosis.
There is good reason to doubt that De Salvo was in fact the killer, according to Susan Kelly in her recent, heavily documented book The Boston Stranglers.
Curiously, De Salvo was the topic of one of Sirhan’s disjointed post-assassination ramblings at LAPD headquarters, and references to "Di Salvo" and appear in Sirhan’s notebook.
www.webcom.com /ctka/pr598-rfk.html   (7274 words)

  
 Boston Strangler Commended // Silverberry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
So, he sponsored a resolution commending Albert de Salvo for his unselfish service to "his county, his state and his community." It read, in part:
This compassionate gentleman's dedication and devotion to his work has enabled the weak and the lonely throughout the nation to achieve and maintain a new degree of concern for their future.
The joke, of course, was that Albert de Salvo was more commonly known as the Boston Strangler, believed to be responsible for the murders of thirteen women in the Boston area between 1962 and 1964.
www.silverberry.org /archives/2003/09/04/boston_strangler_commended.php   (330 words)

  
 The Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo or not? - The Crime Library
Even though nobody has ever officially been on trial as the Boston Strangler, the public believed that Albert DeSalvo, who confessed in detail to each of the eleven "official" Strangler murders, as well as two others, was the murderer.
However, at the time that DeSalvo confessed, most people who knew him personally did not believe him capable of the vicious crimes and today there is a persuasive case to be made that DeSalvo wasn’t the killer after all.
It is not an easy decision to make as many psychiatrists, lawyers, criminologists, authors and friends of Albert DeSalvo have discovered.
www.crimelibrary.com /boston/bostonmain.htm   (646 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Scientist rebuts reliance on fingerprints
For that reason, law professor James E. Starrs testified that Massachusetts should jettison its century-old reliance on fingerprints as evidence in criminal cases, starting with Terry L. Patterson, who is facing retrial for allegedly participating in the 1993 slaying of Boston Detective John J. Mulligan.
Starrs was the forensic scientist at George Washington University who exhumed the bodies of John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated President Lincoln, and Albert de Salvo, the accused Boston Strangler.
Starrs testified that there is no hard scientific support on fingerprint examination but it is routinely used by prosecutors to obtain convictions.
www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/05/18/scientist_rebuts_reliance_on_fingerprints   (557 words)

  
 Bad Attitudes: Sigmund Bush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
To prove a point he introduced a resolution to honor Albert de Salvo.
The language of the resolution stated in part: “This compassionate gentleman's dedication and devotion to his work has enabled the weak and the lonely throughout the nation to achieve and maintain a new degree of concern for their future.
Albert de Salvo was, of course, the Boston Strangler."
badattitudes.com /MT/archives/001793.html   (583 words)

  
 Boston Adventures Sightseeing Tours -- We'd Love to Show You Around -- Boston Strangler Mystique Tour
Was Albert De Salvo the real Boston Strangler or did "Jack the Ripper" come back from the dead to stalk his victims here in Boston?
Self-confessed De Salvo is certainly remembered as one of the world's most feared and notorious killers.
You decide as we take you right to the place, actual locations where De Salvo, a construction worker, carried out some of the most horrible crimes in U.S. history...
www.discoverboston.com /9.html   (601 words)

  
 Horrordvds.com Forum - Serial Killers
Albert Fish was the most fucked up of the bunch.
He wasn't as messed up in public perceptions of him but when he got his victims alone he would become a furious monster unleashing the most brutal punishment people can imagine.
And he did it all with a style and grace of a politician or actor when confronted with the deeds he was accused of.
www.horrordvds.com /vb3forum/showthread.php?t=16884   (764 words)

  
 PETA Animal Times: "Profiler" Ally Walker Spotlights Animal Abuse
In a new public service announcement for PETA, she hopes to spread the word that violence toward animals is linked to violence toward humans.
Among that 80 percent are Albert De Salvo, the “Boston Strangler” who killed 13 women in 1962-63 and reported that, in his youth, he trapped dogs and cats in crates and then shot arrows through the crates.
Carroll Edward Cole, executed in 1985 for five of the 35 murders of which he was accused, said his first act of violence was the strangulation of a puppy.
www.peta.org /living/AT-Winter1998/prof.html   (449 words)

  
 Unsolved Mysteries
When rapist Albert De Salvo confessed to the slayings it appeared that Boston could get back to normal.
After years of incarceration De Salvo called his former doctor wanting to tell the truth but he was murdered before the interview could be arranged.
With new DNA evidence there is a lot of speculation that De Salvo was actually not the killer and the real Boston Strangler was never brought to justice.
www.hometheaterinfo.com /unsolved_mysteries.htm   (1062 words)

  
 Albert de Salvo, the infamous Boston Strangler - anagrams
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 True or False? - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
"De Sa is a glue sniffer, who steals from shops to feed his habit.
The resolution stated that "this compassionate gentleman's dedication and devotion to his work has enabled the weak and the lonely throughout the nation to achieve and maintain a new degree of concern for their future.
During a marijuana raid at the man's house, officers said, they found a mummified head in a box marked 'Eight-Piece Party Cook Kit.' Wrapped in a white lab smock, the head--which belonged to a woman and had been the subject of an autopsy--often came out during good times, police said.
www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=927   (2883 words)

  
 Carettabiblio1 - a to f   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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 Macabre
But Albert was a child eating shark in disguise.
Albert was worse than any fish in the sea.
The land was Albert's ocean; Fish consumed his helpless prey.
www.abp.net.au /macabre/L3.htm   (2125 words)

  
 New Covenant: 04/01/2004 - 04/30/2004
Supporters of same-sex marriage have been aided in their quest to normalize homosexuality by a constellation of liberal religious groups--including some of the historic Christian denominations.
De Jesus, the defense counsel demanded a Batson hearing after the prosecutor used peremptory challenges to strike two fl jurors.
The prosecutor concluded that these jurors would have difficulty sitting in judgment on another human being and so would be reluctant to convict.
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 Albert De Salvo
(The Guilt of Albert De Salvo has come into doubt)
Born: 1931 Died: 26th November 1973 (found dead in his cell, stabbed through the heart)
All his victims were women, sexually assaulted, and strangled - usually with an item of their own clothing (stockings, tights that he would tie with a bow under the chin).
www.geocities.com /quietlyinsane5a/albert.html   (717 words)

  
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A gold star for valor in the face of legislature goes to Representative Tom Moore, Jr.
His sincerity, diligence and coöperation has earned him warm admiration and affection of his fellow practitioners.” After the resolution was approved unanimously by the House, Moore revealed that Albert de Salvo was none other than the Boston Strangler.
Daniel Defoe had tried a similar stunt several years previously, with his The Shortest Way with Dissenters, which got him jailed and pilloried (legend has it that the crowd pelted him with flowers as a show of respect).
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