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  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.
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.
DeSalvo's new lawyer, Lee Bailey, was faced with a very difficult challenge, to prove that DeSalvo was not guilty by reason of insanity at the time of the Green Man crimes.
www.fortunecity.com /roswell/streiber/273/desalvo_cf.htm   (3511 words)

  
 Pet-Abuse.Com - Animal Abuse Case Details: Trapped dogs and cats, shot arrows through the boxes - Boston, MA (US)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Albert DeSalvo, at age 33 was arrested and charged with armed robbery and rape.
Albert Henry DeSalvo was born on September 3, 1931 to Frank and Charlotte DeSalvo in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
In November of 1943 at age 12 Albert DeSalvo was arrested for assault, battery and robbery of $2.85.
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 Albert Desalvo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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.
DeSalvo claimed that Mullen had collapsed from shock when he invaded her apartment, whereupon he left her body on the couch without continuing the usual assault.
carpenoctem.tv /killers/desalvo.html   (1107 words)

  
 ALBERT DESALVO (THE BOSTON STRANGLER)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Albert DeSalvo, a married man, was a sexual fanatic.
DeSalvo first murdered older women, and police thought they had a mother stalker on their hands, then DeSalvo changed his m.o., and began murdering younger women.
Albert DeSalvo was stabbed to death by a fellow inmate in November, 1973.
members.tripod.com /~SerialKillr/SerialKillersExposed/desalvo.html   (208 words)

  
 Albert DeSalvo's body exhumed in effort to resolve questions about his death and the Boston Strangler case
The body of Albert DeSalvo was exhumed from his Massachusetts grave Friday and transported by hearse to a forensic laboratory at York College.
DeSalvo was blamed for the string of murders that spread fear throughout Boston between 1962 and 1964.
DeSalvo claimed he raped Sullivan and strangled her with his hands, but his confession did not match the autopsy report, Sharp said.
www.post-gazette.com /regionstate/20011028stranglerreg7p7.asp   (607 words)

  
 Albert DeSalvo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Albert’s first stop was for a two or three week period at the Lyman-Chauncy cottage, one of the oldest buildings on the campus, it served as the initial in-processing point for those arriving.
Albert DeSalvo, later in his life, through the investigations, "Green Man" serial rape trial and subsequent imprisonment, was always willing to talk to any reporter or detective that passed by.
In 1973, Albert DeSalvo was stabbed to death in bed, in the secured ward of the prison hospital.
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 Albert DeSalvo
DeSalvo was tried and convicted of armed robbery, breaking and entering, theft, assault and sexual crimes against four women.
DeSalvo was arrested after he had broken into a woman's house and indecently assaulted her.
It became apparent that DeSalvo had been at work sexually assaulting women all over New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut, and was known as the Green Man, due to the fact that he usually wore green trousers.
web.ukonline.co.uk /ruth.buddell/desalvo.htm   (357 words)

  
 BBC - Crime Case Closed - The Boston Strangler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He also believes that DeSalvo, who was already facing many years in jail for the Green Man offences, made up his confession in the hope that it would lead to a lucrative book and film deal which would take care of his wife and two children.
In 1995, Sherman tried to "reach out" to the DeSalvo family, who had their own doubts about Albert being the killer, in an effort to prove once and for all that he was innocent.
The Measuring Man offences were very odd crimes that involved DeSalvo knocking on the door of an apartment and, if a young woman answered, he would convince her that he was scouting for a modelling agency.
www.bbc.co.uk /crime/caseclosed/strangler.shtml   (1465 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: DNA Tests Cast Doubt In Boston Strangler Case
The team said two DNA samples taken from the exhumed remains of Mary Sullivan were not DeSalvo's, and it called on Massachusetts authorities to check the samples against semen taken from the crime scene years ago.
DeSalvo, a Boston handyman under indictment for rape, confessed to the crimes in horrible detail, but physical evidence never connected him to the crimes.
DeSalvo said he killed Sullivan in the late afternoon, but the corpse was in full rigor mortis when the medical examiner got to it, indicating death before noon.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A3372-2001Dec6?language=printer   (819 words)

  
 CNN Transcript - Burden of Proof: Should the Boston Strangler Case be Re-Opened? - May 19, 2000
Relatives of DeSalvo and the family of one of the women he confessed to killing are demanding that police turn over evidence and reports that could show he was not the Boston Strangler.
COSSACK: Tim DeSalvo, you are the nephew of Albert DeSalvo.
Zalkind or to his agenda, it is important to my clients that, A, Albert DeSalvo be ruled out as the killer because they've lived with the terrible stigma of that for many years, and it is also important to the Sullivan family to have closure on the death of their family member.
cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0005/19/bp.00.html   (3418 words)

  
 DeSalvo - Boston strangler
DeSalvo was also involved in sexual offenses before he became a household name.
DeSalvo's lawyer, the now renowned F. Lee Bailey, worked to have Albert DeSalvo judged as schizophrenic and therefore unable to stand trial.
DeSalvo was found dead in his cell at Walpole State Prison in 1973.
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 Boston Strangler History | sjpc_01_package.xml
DeSalvo was awarded an honorable discharge in 1956, and brought his wife back with him to the United States.
DeSalvo confessed to being the Strangler while awaiting trial in a psychiatric facility at Bridgewater.
The jury convicted DeSalvo on a range of charges, and he was sentenced to life in prison for the Green Man crimes.
www.bookrags.com /history/boston-strangler-sjpc-01   (806 words)

  
 Portsmouth Herald Mass News: Family of Albert DeSalvo say his vital organs are missing
BOSTON - The family of Albert DeSalvo, the man who once confessed to being the Boston Strangler, says they discovered several of his vital organs were missing when they exhumed his body this fall in an attempt to determine if he really was the infamous serial murderer.
The DeSalvo family, along with relatives of the woman believed to be the Strangler's last victim, Mary Sullivan, are working to clear DeSalvo of the killings.
DeSalvo, a factory worker with a wife and children, confessed in 1965 to those murders, as well as two others, but later recanted.
www.seacoastonline.com /2001news/12_19_sb2.htm   (486 words)

  
 Boston Strangler FBI Files
DeSalvo was sent to Westborough State Psychiatric Hospital and was diagnosed as a sociopath.
DeSalvo was found stabbed through the heart in a prison infirmary in 1973.
A 1961 memo documents an arrest when Desalvo was know as the "Tapester." At that time he was accused of posing as a talent scout for a modeling agency.
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 Albert De Salvo; Serial Killers A-Z
Albert De Salvo was born in 1931 in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
DeSalvo's crusaders have pointed to discrepencies between the facts of Sullivan's murder and DeSalvo's confession (which he recanted later on)and are currently attempting to have DNA analysis of existing evidence from the Sullivan murder scene tested in an attempt to prove DeSalvo innocent of the crime and thus, presumably, innocent of all the Strangler murders.
This news certainly casts doubt as to DeSalvo's involvement in any of the 'Strangler' murders, though it is important to remember that he was no choirboy.
www.geocities.com /verbal_plainfield/a-h/desalvo.html   (1070 words)

  
 The Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo or not? - The Crime Library
Nobody that knew DeSalvo believed that he was the Strangler: his wife and family, his former employers, his lawyer, an eminent prison psychiatrist, and even the police who had become very familiar with Albert with his frequent arrests for breaking and entering.
Albert’s own research as a burglar put him in many of the apartment buildings in which women were murdered.
Albert’s confession to this crime was very sketchy and many of the details were incorrect.
www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/notorious/boston/didnt_8.html   (2063 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
CASEY SHERMAN, NEPHEW OF VICTIM: Albert DeSalvo was not the Boston Strangler.
The case was reopened in 1999 in response to requests by the family of Albert DeSalvo and the family of Mary Sullivan, who was the strangler's last victim.
COSSACK: In 1965, Albert DeSalvo confessed that he was the Boston Strangler, but his family, and the family of the Boston Strangler's last victim, are convinced that that confession was false.
edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0108/14/bp.00.html   (3328 words)

  
 Boston Strangler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Albert Henry DeSalvo (November 3, 1931 - November 25, 1973) was a serial killer active in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, in the early 1960s.
DeSalvo was not initially suspected of being involved with the stranglings.
The spirit of DeSalvo is summoned by sheriff Lucas Buck to destroy the ghost of Caleb's sister on the American Gothic episode Strangler.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albert_DeSalvo   (1156 words)

  
 Alberto Desalvo The Boston Strangler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Albert DeSalvo was considered the Boston Strangler, responsible for killing 13 women, but he was never charged.
James Starrs, a professor of forensic science and law at George Washington University, said DNA evidence on Mary Sullivan is not associated with Albert DeSalvo.
DeSalvo confessed to strangling Mary with his bare hands but she was strangled with scarves and a stocking.
www.karisable.com /skazdesalv.htm   (1268 words)

  
 Boston Strangler
The families of Albert DeSalvo, who confessed to the Boston Strangler murders, and of Mary Sullivan, believed to be one of his victims, hope to prove that DeSalvo is not the Boston Strangler and that Sullivan's killer has escaped justice.
''We believe that Albert DeSalvo did not kill Mary Sullivan and that Albert DeSalvo was not the Boston Strangler and that the killer of Mary Sullivan has not been brought to justice,'' Sharp said.
DeSalvo confessed to the 11 Boston Strangler murders and the murders of two other women, but was never charged with them.
www.truthinjustice.org /strangler.htm   (447 words)

  
 Portsmouth Herald Mass. News: Families of alleged Boston Strangler, victim unite to get to the truth
Casey Sherman never believed his aunt, Mary Sullivan, was killed by Albert DeSalvo, even though he confessed to killing her and a dozen others.
DeSalvo was sent to prison for life for another string of rapes and sexual assaults and was stabbed to death in the state's maximum security prison in Walpole in 1973 but not before he recanted his confession.
Albert DeSalvo confessed to the Boston Strangler killings because he knew he was going to prison for life anyway and wanted to cash in on the notoriety with books and movie deals so he could take care of his family, his brother said.
www.seacoastonline.com /2000news/12_23_sb2.htm   (1116 words)

  
 York College
DeSalvo's re-autopsy comes just one year after that of Mary A. Sullivan, the last victim of the so-called “Boston Strangler.” Both members of Sullivan's and of DeSalvo's family have formed a powerful alliance in an attempt to have the case reinvestigated.
DeSalvo claimed he raped and manually strangled Sullivan, but his confession did not match the autopsy report: there was no semen in the vagina and no evidence she had been strangled by anything other than ligatures.
DeSalvo confessed in 1965 to committing 13 murders — the so-called “Boston Stranglings” — which occurred between June, 1962 and January, 1964 in and around Boston.
www.ycp.edu /news/2828_3430.htm   (426 words)

  
 The Boston Strangler's Confession -Truth or Fiction? Part 2
Albert DeSalvo, the alleged Boston Strangler, was stabbed to death in Walpole State prison in 1973 while serving a life sentence for another crime.
Susan Kelly, the author of The Boston Stranglers: The Public Conviction of Albert DeSalvo and the True Story of Eleven Shocking Murders explains in her book why she believes he was innocent of the crimes.
I wanted the right to defend a man for robbery and assault by proving that he had committed thirteen murders.” His plan was unsuccessful, for DeSalvo was determined to be entirely sane and was sentenced to life in prison thanks to his defense attorney’s scheme.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/unsolved_mysteries/76305/1   (424 words)

  
 Boston.com / Latest News / Region
Casey Sherman, who wasn't even born when his aunt, Mary Sullivan, was murdered in her Beacon Hill apartment in 1964, said Reilly is refusing to share evidence taken from the crime scene because he doesn't want to cast doubt on the guilt of Albert DeSalvo, the man who claimed to be the Strangler.
Neither family believes DeSalvo was the Boston Strangler, a figure blamed for murdering 11 women and terrorizing the city between 1962 and 1964.
DeSalvo, who was never charged in the Strangler murders, recanted his confession before he was stabbed to death in prison in 1973.
www.boston.com /news/daily/19/strangler.htm   (618 words)

  
 The Boston Strangler's Confession -Truth or Fiction? Part 1
In 1965, Albert DeSalvo, 33, a blue-collar worker and Army veteran, while facing charges unrelated to the stranglings, admitted that he was the Boston Strangler.
Although the Boston community was content with deeming Desalvo the Boston Strangler, many are unaware that the case remains open, for DeSalvo was not convicted of the crimes.
On top of that, DeSalvo had a criminal track record and had already served time for his “measuring man” escapades, visiting the homes of beautiful woman and claiming to be from a modeling agency.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/6429/76021   (519 words)

  
 Boston Strangler's Brother To Give Key Evidence - Station
Albert DeSalvo claimed to be the Boston Strangler.
Albert DeSalvo's family believes that he did not kill Sullivan.
Richard DeSalvo said that in exchange for offering his blood sample, he wants evidence that was collected at Sullivan's murder scene.
www.thebostonchannel.com /station/879748/detail.html   (290 words)

  
 Albert DeSalvo
Nobody that knew DeSalvo believed that he was the Boston Strangler: his wife and family, his former employers, his lawyer, an eminent prison psychiatrist, and even the police who had become very familiar with Albert with his frequent arrests for breaking and entering.
DeSalvo had a photographic memory; this is why he could remember every detail pertaining to the crime scenes, officials suspect that Albert would enter the crime scenes at night after everyone had gone.
On the same note, with DeSalvo being able to recall all details of the crime scenes made others believe that he was the Boston Strangler.
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