Crime & Safety

Police Have 'Major Development' in Boston Strangler Case

The "Boston Strangler" is said to have been responsible for the murders of 11 women in the 1960s.

Posted by Bret Silverberg

It’s been 49 years since the homicide of Mary Sullivan, but police say they have a “major development” regarding the infamous Boston Strangler case.

Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis will brief the media on the development at an 11 a.m. news conference from Boston Police Headquarters.

Police found the body of 19-year-old Mary Sullivan Jan. 4, 1964 in her Charles Street apartment. She was the last of 11 murders popularly attributed to the “Boston Strangler.”

Albert DeSalvo confessed to those homicides and others but was never charged with or convicted of them; he died in 1973 after being sentenced to life in prison on unrelated convictions for armed robbery and sexual assault in a separate series of non-fatal attacks on women.


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