The remains of Albert DeSalvo, who confessed to the Boston Strangler murders but was never convicted, will be exhumed for DNA testing that may link him to the 1964 murder of Mary Sullivan, Massachusetts authorities said.
"We may have just solved one of the nations' most notorious serial killings," state Attorney General Martha Coakley said at a press conference today in Boston. The murders "terrorized Boston and gripped the whole area in fear."
Most people have thought of DeSalvo as the Boston Strangler for years but there was never definitive evidence until now, Coakley said.
Albert DeSalvo facing murder charges for the strangulation of 13 Boston women 1967.
DeSalvo confessed to the 11 murders of Boston-area women in the 1960s and later recanted. He was never convicted of the crimes and was killed in prison in prison in 1973.
Boston authorities waited for years for DNA sampling technology to advance sufficiently before sending two samples from the Sullivan murder scene to two separate testing companies. When a sample was identified, Boston police needed to compare it to a sample from one of DeSalvo's male family members. Police sent a surveillance expert to follow one of DeSalvo's nephews until he discarded a water bottle, which was collected and tested, police said. A match was made, according to police.
The water bottle match allowed authorities to obtain a search warrant for the exhumation.
Bloomberg
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