"F. Conley said he expected investigators to find an exact match when the evidence is compared with his DNA. On July 19, 2013, Suffolk County DA Daniel F. Conley, Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley and Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis announced that DNA test results proved DeSalvo was the source of seminal fluid recovered at the scene of Sullivan's 1964 murder. Though DeSalvo was conclusively linked to Mary Sullivan's murder, doubts remain as to whether he committed all of the Boston Strangler homicides — and whether another killer could still be at large. When he confessed, people who knew"
"Boston Strangler The Boston Strangler is a name given to the murderer (or murderers) of 13 women in the Boston area, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, in the early 1960s. The crimes were attributed to Albert DeSalvo based on his confession, details revealed in court during a separate case, and DNA evidence linking DeSalvo to the last murder victim. Since then, parties investigating the crimes have suggested that the murders (sometimes referred to as ""the silk stocking murders"") were committed by more than one person. Initially, the crimes were assumed to be the work of one unknown person dubbed"
"""The Mad Strangler of Boston."" The July 8, 1962 edition of the ""Sunday Herald"", declared ""A mad strangler is loose in Boston,"" in an article titled ""Mad Strangler Kills Four Women in Boston."" The killer was also known as the ""Phantom Fiend"" or ""Phantom Strangler"" due to his ability to get women to allow him into their apartments. In 1963, two investigative reporters for the ""Record American"", Jean Cole and Loretta McLaughlin, wrote a four-part series about the killer, dubbing him ""The Boston Strangler."" By the time that DeSalvo's confession was aired in open court, the name ""Boston Strangler"" had"
"become part of crime lore. Between June 14, 1962 and January 4, 1964, 13 single women between the ages of 19 and 85 were murdered in the Boston area. Most were sexually assaulted and strangled in their apartments; police believe that one man was the perpetrator. With no sign of forced entry into their homes, the women were assumed to have let their assailant in, either because they knew him or because they believed him to be an apartment maintenance man, delivery man, or other service man. The attacks continued despite extensive media publicity after the first few murders, which"
"suddenly left, saying ""I'm sorry"" as he went. The woman's description of her attacker led police to identify the assailant as Albert DeSalvo. When his photo was published, many women identified him as the man who had assaulted them. Earlier on October 27, DeSalvo had posed as a motorist with car trouble and attempted to enter a home in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. The homeowner, future Brockton police chief Richard Sproules, became suspicious and eventually fired a shotgun at DeSalvo. DeSalvo was not initially suspected of being involved with the strangling murders. After he was charged with rape, he gave a detailed"
"Gayno Smith Gayno Smith or Gayno Gilbert Smith (January 23, 1938 – May 16, 2005) was a mass murderer from Iowa, who killed six people in 1961 and 1962. Before the murders Smith had been living in Denver, Colorado, but due to problems there had come to Martinsburg, Iowa to live with his stepmother. When he had problems with her as well, he moved to the home of his uncle Andrew and lived there. On May 27, 1962, Smith murdered Andrew McBeth, 51, and Dora McBeth, 41, and their three children: Amos and Anna McBeth, 19, and Donna Jean Kellogg,"
"Altemio Sanchez Altemio C. Sanchez (born January 19, 1958) is an American serial killer who is known to have murdered and/or raped at least three women, and raped between 9-15 girls and women in and around Buffalo, New York, during a 25-year span from 1981–2006. Sanchez is also known as the Bike Path Rapist and Bike Path Killer. Sanchez was a machinist and factory worker who worked afternoon and night shifts at the former American Brass Company plant on Military Road in the Kenmore/Buffalo area. He lived in the Cleveland Hill neighborhood of Cheektowaga, New York; and is originally from"
"Altemio Sanchez Altemio C. Sanchez (born January 19, 1958) is an American serial killer who is known to have murdered and/or raped at least three women, and raped between 9-15 girls and women in and around Buffalo, New York, during a 25-year span from 1981–2006. Sanchez is also known as the Bike Path Rapist and Bike Path Killer. Sanchez was a machinist and factory worker who worked afternoon and night shifts at the former American Brass Company plant on Military Road in the Kenmore/Buffalo area. He lived in the Cleveland Hill neighborhood of Cheektowaga, New York; and is originally from"
"Lorenzo Gilyard Lorenzo Jerome Gilyard, Jr. (born May 24, 1950) is an American serial killer. A former trash company supervisor, Gilyard is alleged to have raped and murdered 13 women and girls from 1977 to 1993. He was convicted of six counts of murder on March 16, 2007. Gilyard's background was dysfunctional; his father, Lorenzo Gilyard (February 24, 1927 – October 24, 1999) was convicted of rape in 1970, his brother Darryl E. (also Daryle E.) (born February 12, 1953) was convicted of a drug-related murder in 1989 and sentenced to life without parole, and his sister, Patricia D. Dixon"
"was the first of many high-profile cases. While defendant Albert DeSalvo was in jail for a series of sexual assaults known as the ""Green Man"" incidents, he confessed his guilt in the ""Boston Strangler"" murders to Bailey. DeSalvo was found guilty of the assaults but was never tried for the stranglings. Carl A. Coppolino was accused of the July 30, 1963, murder of retired Army Col. William Farber, his neighbor and the husband of Marjorie Farber, with whom Coppolino was having an affair. He was also accused of the August 28, 1965, murder of his wife, Carmela Coppolino. The prosecution"
"Creating doubt of a serial killer, who characteristically have a certain type of victim and method of murder, the women killed by ""The Strangler"" were from a variety of age and ethnic groups, and there were different modi operandi. In 1968, Dr. Ames Robey, medical director of Bridgewater State Hospital, insisted that DeSalvo was not the Boston Strangler. He said the prisoner was ""a very clever, very smooth compulsive confessor who desperately needs to be recognized."" Robey's opinion was shared by Middlesex District Attorney John J. Droney, Bridgewater Superintendent Charles Gaughan, and George W. Harrison, a former fellow inmate of"
"saying ""I'm sorry"" as he went. The woman's description led police to identify the assailant as DeSalvo. When his photo was published, many women identified him as the man who had assaulted them. Earlier on October 27, DeSalvo had posed as a motorist with car trouble and attempted to enter a home in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. The owner of the home, future Brockton Police Chief Richard Sproles, became suspicious and ultimately fired a shotgun at DeSalvo. Under arrest for his role in the ""Green Man"" rapes, DeSalvo was not suspected of being involved with the murders. Only after he was charged"
"it's inconceivable behaviorally that all these could fit one individual."" In 2000, Elaine Whitfield Sharp, an attorney specializing in forensic cases from Marblehead, Massachusetts, began representing the families of DeSalvo and of Mary A. Sullivan, a 19-year-old who was among the Strangler's final victims in 1964. A former print journalist, Sharp obtained court approval to exhume both Sullivan and DeSalvo for DNA testing, filed several court actions to obtain information and physical evidence from the government, and worked with various film producers to create documentaries so as to better educate the public. Through these efforts, Sharp was able to identify"
"Agustín Salas del Valle Agustín Salas del Valle (born in 1964 in Mexico City) is a supposed Mexican serial killer, it is believed that he murdered more than 20 women in the Central Zone between 1989 and 1993; although he was only condemned for one of the homicides. He was known as ""Jack the Strangler"", ""The Women Strangler"" and ""The Mata-Meretrices"". He intercepted his victims in the streets (all women between 20 and 40 years old, mostly sex workers), driving them to hotels in Mexico City's Central Zone. He would rent a room, threaten the women and strike them, later"
"Sullivan was publicized as being the final victim in 1964, although other strangling murders occurred after that date. Sharp assisted the families in their media campaign to clear DeSalvo's name. She helped organize and arrange the exhumations of Mary Sullivan and Albert H. DeSalvo, filed various lawsuits in attempts to obtain information and trace evidence (e.g., DNA) from the government, and worked with various producers to create documentaries to explain the facts to the public. Sharp noted various inconsistencies between DeSalvo's confessions and the crime scene information (which she obtained). For example, she observed that, contrary to DeSalvo's confession to"
"between 1985 and 1992: Marco Bergamo (serial killer) Marco Bergamo (born August 6, 1966 in Bolzano - October 17, 2017 in Bollate), known as the Monster of Bolzano, was an Italian serial killer who murdered five women between 1985 and 1992. Ever since childhood, Bergamo lived with complications: at the age of 4 he stuttered, and later on was obese and suffering from a skin disease, turning him into a shy introvert. For the following 13 years he collected knives, among other things, so much so that he always had one on him. After starting work as a welder and"
"series ""A Crime to Remember"" in 2015 (""Lock Up Your Daughters""). Lee Roy Martin Lee Roy Martin, (April 25, 1937 — 31 May 1972) also known as the ""Gaffney Strangler,"" was an American serial killer from Gaffney, South Carolina. He murdered 4 females, 2 women and 2 girls between 1967 and 1968. When the killings began in 1967, Martin was employed at a textile mill in Cherokee County. He was married and had three children. On May 20, 1967, 32-year-old Annie Lucille Dedmond was murdered. She had been strangled and raped. Her husband, Roger Dedmond, was arrested and convicted of"
"Zoltán Szabó (serial killer) Zoltán Szabó (1968 – December 5, 2016 in Szeged), known as the Balástya Monster, was a Hungarian serial killer who killed women for monetary purposes. He was convicted of killing four people out of his 5 confirmed murders, but could possibly have upwards of 6 victims. Szabó was born into a farmer's family in 1968, and had lived on a farm since his youth. He studied until the eight grade in elementary school, refusing to study any more. His father died early, and his brother who lived on the farm committed suicide. He had a violent"
"Richard Laurence Marquette Richard Lawrence Marquette (also known as Dick Marquette; born December 12, 1934) is an American convicted serial killer. Marquette is a serial killer who killed three women, drained their blood, mutilated, dismembered their bodies, and scattered their remains. He was the first person ever to be added as an eleventh name on the FBI Ten Most Wanted List, in connection with the 1961 murder of Joan Caudle in Portland, Oregon. He has been incarcerated at the Oregon State Penitentiary since June 1975. Richard Laurence (Lawrence) Marquette was born on December 12, 1934 in Portland, Oregon. On June"
"and Joseph James DeAngelo appeared in Sacramento Superior Court before Judge Michael Sweet at 1:30 PM local time. Golden State Killer The Golden State Killer is a serial killer, rapist, and burglar who committed at least 13 murders, more than 50 rapes, and over 100 burglaries in California from 1974 to 1986. He is believed to be responsible for three crime sprees throughout California, each of which spawned a different nickname in the press before it became evident that they were committed by the same person. In the Sacramento area he was known as the East Area Rapist, and was"
"Lee Roy Martin Lee Roy Martin, (April 25, 1937 — 31 May 1972) also known as the ""Gaffney Strangler,"" was an American serial killer from Gaffney, South Carolina. He murdered 4 females, 2 women and 2 girls between 1967 and 1968. When the killings began in 1967, Martin was employed at a textile mill in Cherokee County. He was married and had three children. On May 20, 1967, 32-year-old Annie Lucille Dedmond was murdered. She had been strangled and raped. Her husband, Roger Dedmond, was arrested and convicted of her murder. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison. Nine"
"Francisco Antonio Laureana Francisco Antonio Laureana (born 1952 in Corrientes - died in San Isidro on February 27, 1975) was a young Argentine killed by the Buenos Aires police, who believed him to be a rapist and serial killer called the ""Satyr of San Isidro"", who for a period of six months - from 1974 and 1975 - raped 15 women, of whom he murdered 13. He killed most of victims on Wednesdays and Thursdays near 6:00 P.M. The police reconstructed the events based on what they believed to be a series of murders and the psychological profile of the"
"Marco Bergamo (serial killer) Marco Bergamo (born August 6, 1966 in Bolzano - October 17, 2017 in Bollate), known as the Monster of Bolzano, was an Italian serial killer who murdered five women between 1985 and 1992. Ever since childhood, Bergamo lived with complications: at the age of 4 he stuttered, and later on was obese and suffering from a skin disease, turning him into a shy introvert. For the following 13 years he collected knives, among other things, so much so that he always had one on him. After starting work as a welder and carpenter, at the young"
"remaining population. Authorities exhumed DeSalvo's remains later that month and confirmed the DNA match. DeSalvo was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, to Frank and Charlotte DeSalvo. His father was a violent alcoholic, who at one point knocked out all of his wife's teeth and bent her fingers back until they broke in front of their children. DeSalvo tortured animals as a child, and began shoplifting and stealing in early adolescence, frequently crossing paths with the law. In November 1943, the 12-year-old DeSalvo was first arrested for battery and robbery. In December of the same year he was sent to the Lyman"
"Thozamile Taki Thozamile Taki (born 1971) also known as the Sugarcane Killer is a South African serial killer who killed 13 women aged 18–25, dumping their bodies in agricultural plantations. On 19 January 2011, Taki was sentenced to 13 life sentences for the murders and an additional 208 years, 16 years for each of his victims of armed robbery. Taki murdered 10 victims in the sugarcane plantations around the town of Umzinto, as well as a further three victims in the tea plantations near Port St Johns, KwaZulu Natal. Body parts of some of his victims are alleged to have"
"Orlando Sabino Orlando Sabino Camargo (born September 4, 1946 in Arapongas - June 8, 2013 in Barbacena), known as the ""Monster of Capinópolis, was a Brazilian suspected serial killer who allegedly murdered 12 people using revolvers and rifles, as well as beating and stabbing 19 calves to death using a sickle in the regions of Triângulo Mineiro and Alto Paranaíba, and in south Goiás. Aside from this, he was also accused committing numerous crimes related to theft, robbery and rape. He was described as a short, shallow man with a frightened and introverted look, with features reminiscent of the autistic"
"Giorgio Orsolano Giorgio Orsolano (born on June 3, 1803 in San Giorgio Canavese - March 17, 1835 in San Giorgio Canavese), known as the ""Hyena of San Giorgio"", was an Italian serial killer who committed three murders. Giorgio Orsolano was born in San Giorgio Canavese, not far from Ivrea, to parents Antonio Orsolano and Margherita Gallo. When his father passed away, his mother sent Giorgio to her brother, a priest, to educate him. Every attempt was in vain, and he sent the young Giorgio back to his mother. Returning to San Giorgio, Orsolano spent more time in the tavern than"
"December 23, 2010, Taki was convicted on all charges. Thozamile Taki Thozamile Taki (born 1971) also known as the Sugarcane Killer is a South African serial killer who killed 13 women aged 18–25, dumping their bodies in agricultural plantations. On 19 January 2011, Taki was sentenced to 13 life sentences for the murders and an additional 208 years, 16 years for each of his victims of armed robbery. Taki murdered 10 victims in the sugarcane plantations around the town of Umzinto, as well as a further three victims in the tea plantations near Port St Johns, KwaZulu Natal. Body parts"
"Phillip Carl Jablonski Phillip Carl Jablonski (born January 3, 1946) is an American serial killer convicted of killing five women in California and Utah between 1978 and 1991. Jablonski met his first wife, Alice McGowan, in high school. He enlisted in the Army in 1966 and was sent overseas. They married in 1968 when he returned to the U.S. While living in Texas, Jablonski became sexually violent. During sex he put a pillow over McGowan's face and attempted to suffocate her. On several occasions, he strangled her until she was unconscious. After McGowan left him, Jablonski became involved with Jane"
"death sentence on appeal. Phillip Carl Jablonski Phillip Carl Jablonski (born January 3, 1946) is an American serial killer convicted of killing five women in California and Utah between 1978 and 1991. Jablonski met his first wife, Alice McGowan, in high school. He enlisted in the Army in 1966 and was sent overseas. They married in 1968 when he returned to the U.S. While living in Texas, Jablonski became sexually violent. During sex he put a pillow over McGowan's face and attempted to suffocate her. On several occasions, he strangled her until she was unconscious. After McGowan left him, Jablonski"
"a killed a minimum of 29 victims by the time of this interview. Although Slivko did provide some insight into how offenders such as himself were able to function, much of the actual advice he provided to police would prove to be incorrect. The then-unidentified serial killer, Andrei Chikatilo, was arrested in 1990 and would be convicted of killing 52 women and children. On September 16, 1989, just hours after he was interviewed by the police, Anatoly Slivko was executed by shooting. Anatoly Slivko Anatoly Yemelianovich Slivko (Russian: Анатолий Емельянович Сливко; December 28, 1938 – September 16, 1989) was a"
"Francisco de Assis Pereira Francisco de Assis Pereira (born November 29, 1967), also known as ""O Maníaco do Parque"" (""The Park Maniac""), was a Brazilian serial killer. He was arrested in 1998 for the rape and murder of 11 women and for assaulting nine others in a São Paulo park. Francisco de Assis Pereira was born on November 29, 1967 in São Paulo. He experienced sexual trauma in his childhood, with a maternal aunt sexually harassing him, after which he developed a fixation on breasts. As an adult, he was seduced by his boss to engage in homosexual relationships. In"
"squad. Yuri Ivanov (serial killer) Yuri Anufrievich Ivanov (born 1956 in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakh SSR - about 1989), known as the ""Ust-Kamenogorsk Maniac"", was a Soviet rapist and serial killer. In the span fo 13 years (with a break), he raped and killed 16 girls and women. He committed his crimes in Ust-Kamenogorsk, in the area of the ""Combine of silk fabrics"" factory. Ivanov worked as driver. He was married, and his own daughter was married as well. Once he returned home from work a day earlier and found out his wife with a lover. After this, he developed a hatred"