"and prosecution of De Salvo."" The Boston Strangler (film) The Boston Strangler is a 1968 American neo-noir film loosely based on the true story of the Boston Strangler and the book by Gerold Frank. It was directed by Richard Fleischer, and stars Tony Curtis as Albert DeSalvo, the strangler, and Henry Fonda as John S. Bottomly, the chief detective who came to fame for obtaining DeSalvo's confession. Curtis was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his performance. The cast also featured George Kennedy and the film debut of Sally Kellerman. After three murders of elderly women, with all victims"
"""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"
"the issues beforehand. Having made his point, he withdrew the resolution. Albert DeSalvo Albert Henry DeSalvo (September 3, 1931 – November 25, 1973) was a criminal in Boston, Massachusetts, who confessed to being the ""Boston Strangler"", the murderer of 13 women in the Boston area from 1962 to 1964. DeSalvo was imprisoned, however, for a series of rapes. His murder confession has been disputed, and debate continues as to which crimes DeSalvo actually committed. In July 2013, a DNA match between seminal fluid found at the scene of the rape and murder of Mary Sullivan and DNA obtained from DeSalvo's"
"Vincent Johnson Vincent Johnson (born January 6, 1969), is an American serial killer popularly known as the Brooklyn Strangler. Between the summers of 1999 and 2000, a series of murders of prostitutes in the Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhoods of Brooklyn led police to arrest a Brooklyn homeless man, one of roughly 30 known associates of prostitutes in the area detained for questioning, on suspicion of the murders. However, DNA testing definitively excluded the man as the killer. After he was cleared as a suspect, the man befriended the officers of the Brooklyn North Homicide Task Force who were working the"
"Dennis Rader Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945) is an American serial killer known as BTK or the BTK Strangler. He gave himself the name ""BTK"" (for ""Bind, Torture, Kill""), which was his infamous signature. Between 1974 and 1991, Rader killed ten people in the Wichita, Kansas metro area. Rader was particularly known for sending taunting letters to police and newspapers describing the details of his crimes. After a decade-long hiatus, Rader resumed sending letters in 2004, leading to his 2005 arrest and subsequent guilty plea. He is currently serving ten consecutive life sentences at El Dorado Correctional Facility"
"Albert DeSalvo Albert Henry DeSalvo (September 3, 1931 – November 25, 1973) was a criminal in Boston, Massachusetts, who confessed to being the ""Boston Strangler"", the murderer of 13 women in the Boston area from 1962 to 1964. DeSalvo was imprisoned, however, for a series of rapes. His murder confession has been disputed, and debate continues as to which crimes DeSalvo actually committed. In July 2013, a DNA match between seminal fluid found at the scene of the rape and murder of Mary Sullivan and DNA obtained from DeSalvo's nephew linked DeSalvo to that crime and excluded 99.9% of the"
"Cincinnati Strangler The Cincinnati Strangler was the name given to a serial killer who raped, then strangled seven mostly elderly women in Cincinnati, Ohio between 1965 and 1966. The identity of the Cincinnati Strangler is commonly believed to be former cab driver Posteal Laskey Jr. During the killing spree there was considerable alarm on the part of many Cincinnatians, with locksmiths and hardware stores unable to keep up with the demand for locks. Despite being charged with only one murder, the citywide panic only abated after Laskey's arrest and conviction, when the killings suddenly stopped, thus supporting investigators' claim that"
"Dannemora, New York. Vincent Johnson Vincent Johnson (born January 6, 1969), is an American serial killer popularly known as the Brooklyn Strangler. Between the summers of 1999 and 2000, a series of murders of prostitutes in the Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhoods of Brooklyn led police to arrest a Brooklyn homeless man, one of roughly 30 known associates of prostitutes in the area detained for questioning, on suspicion of the murders. However, DNA testing definitively excluded the man as the killer. After he was cleared as a suspect, the man befriended the officers of the Brooklyn North Homicide Task Force who"
"Timothy Wilson Spencer Timothy Wilson Spencer (March 17, 1962 – April 27, 1994), also known as the ""Southside Strangler"", was a serial killer who committed three rapes and murders in Richmond, Virginia and one in Arlington, Virginia in the fall of 1987. In addition, he is believed to have committed at least one previous murder, in 1984, for which a different man, David Vasquez, was wrongfully convicted. He was known to police as a prolific home burglar. Spencer became the first serial killer in the United States to be convicted on the basis of DNA evidence, with David Vasquez being"
"a song entitled ""Raider II"" inspired by the story of Rader on his 2011 album ""Grace for Drowning"". Dennis Rader Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945) is an American serial killer known as BTK or the BTK Strangler. He gave himself the name ""BTK"" (for ""Bind, Torture, Kill""), which was his infamous signature. Between 1974 and 1991, Rader killed ten people in the Wichita, Kansas metro area. Rader was particularly known for sending taunting letters to police and newspapers describing the details of his crimes. After a decade-long hiatus, Rader resumed sending letters in 2004, leading to his 2005"
"Henry Louis Wallace Henry Louis Wallace (born November 4, 1965), also known as ""The Taco Bell Strangler"", is an American serial killer who killed ten women in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is awaiting execution at Central Prison in Raleigh. Henry Louis Wallace was born in Barnwell, South Carolina, son of Lottie Mae Wallace and a married schoolteacher who walked out on Lottie when he found out she was pregnant. Wallace grew up with his mother working long hours as a textile worker. She was a harsh disciplinarian, constantly criticizing her son for even the smallest mistakes. He attended Barnwell High"
"The Strangler The Strangler is a 1964 crime thriller, directed by Burt Topper and starring Victor Buono, David McLean, Davey Davison and Ellen Corby, with a screenplay by Bill S. Ballinger. The film was inspired by the Boston Strangler, a serial killer of the 1960s. Leo Kroll (Buono) is a mother-fixated lab technician who collects dolls. He is also a serial killer, responsible for the death of a number of nurses, and is questioned by the police regarding those murders, but is released. Kroll claims his next victim, Clara (Bates), the nurse who has been looking after his possessive mother,"
"prison. No one claimed his body and prison officials said he was buried in one of the State of Ohio's prison cemeteries. Cincinnati Strangler The Cincinnati Strangler was the name given to a serial killer who raped, then strangled seven mostly elderly women in Cincinnati, Ohio between 1965 and 1966. The identity of the Cincinnati Strangler is commonly believed to be former cab driver Posteal Laskey Jr. During the killing spree there was considerable alarm on the part of many Cincinnatians, with locksmiths and hardware stores unable to keep up with the demand for locks. Despite being charged with only"
"the hospital and his own situation. Immediately after his escape, DeSalvo disguised himself as a U.S. Navy Petty Officer Third Class, but the next day he gave himself up. Following the escape, he was transferred to the maximum security Walpole State Prison. Six years after the transfer, he was found stabbed to death in the prison infirmary. His killer or killers were never identified. Prior to DNA confirmation in 2013, doubts existed as to whether DeSalvo was the Boston Strangler. At the time when he confessed, people who knew him personally did not believe him capable of such vicious crimes."
"George Nassar George Nassar (born June 1932) is an American murderer; Albert DeSalvo allegedly confessed to being the Boston Strangler to Nassar in late 1965. Nassar contacted his lawyer F. Lee Bailey and informed him of this confession, which led to DeSalvo becoming the prime suspect in the unsolved Strangler murders. Nassar was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the oldest of two children of Henry Nassar and Helen (née George), both of Syriac descent. Henry had come to America with his parents as a child and worked at various mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He would pass away there in 1955."
"Anthony Sowell Anthony Edward Sowell (born August 19, 1959) is an American serial killer known as the Cleveland Strangler. He was arrested in October 2009 after the bodies of eleven women were discovered by police investigators at his Cleveland, Ohio, duplex at 12205 Imperial Avenue in Mount Pleasant neighborhood. Anthony Edward Sowell was raised in East Cleveland, one of seven children born to single mother Claudia ""Gertude"" Garrison. Seven other children belonging to Sowell's sister also lived in the household, having moved in after the death of their chronically ill mother. According to Sowell's niece, Garrison subjected the siblings to"
"Kenneth Bianchi Kenneth Alessio Bianchi (born May 22, 1951) is an American serial killer, kidnapper, and rapist. He is also known for the Hillside Strangler murders along with his cousin Angelo Buono in Los Angeles, California, as well as having murdered two more women in Washington by himself. He is currently serving a sentence of life imprisonment in Washington State Penitentiary for these crimes. Bianchi is also a suspect in the alphabet murders, three unsolved murders in his home city of Rochester, New York. Kenneth Alessio Bianchi was born on May 22, 1951, in Rochester, New York, to an alcoholic"
"have tortured his victims, although he never plied his victims with alcohol or drugs. In addition, although he is known to have stabbed some victims' genitalia with a knife and to have stabbed one victim to death, Bonin never mutilated their bodies and almost all of his victims were strangled to death with their own T-shirts. Moreover, Bonin's victims were younger than those of Kraft, with the age range of his victims being 12 to 19 years. Randy Kraft Randy Steven Kraft (born March 19, 1945) is an American serial killer known as the Scorecard Killer, the Southern California Strangler"
"point, snoring. Kenneth Erskine Kenneth Erskine (born 1 July 1963) is a British serial killer who became known as the Stockwell Strangler. Erskine was born in Hammersmith on 1 July 1963 to a British mother and Antiguan father. Erskine has three brothers. He was abandoned by both parents during childhood and attended various special schools. His parents divorced when he was 12. It was said that he sometimes read the Bible as a child. On a field trip, he tried to drown his peers, and he became more violent as he grew up. He eventually became homeless. Erskine's criminal career"
"Class insignia on his sleeve. At the time of the Boston Strangler murders, DeSalvo lived at 11 Florence Street Park, in Malden Massachusetts across the street from the junction of Florence and Clement streets. Between June 14, 1962, and January 4, 1964, 13 single women between the ages of 19 and 85 were murdered in the Boston area; they were eventually tied to the Boston Strangler. Most of the women were sexually assaulted in their apartments, and then strangled with articles of clothing. The eldest victim died of a heart attack. Two others were stabbed to death, one of whom"
"Earle Nelson Earle Leonard Nelson (née Ferral; May 12, 1897January 13, 1928), also known in the media as the ""Gorilla Man,"" the ""Gorilla Killer,"" and the ""Dark Strangler,"" was an American serial killer, rapist, and necrophile. He was the first known American serial sex murderer of the twentieth century. Born and raised in San Francisco, California by his devoutly Pentecostal grandmother, Nelson exhibited bizarre behavior as a child, which was compounded by head injuries he sustained in a bicycling accident at age ten. After committing various minor offenses in early adulthood, he was institutionalized in Napa for a time. Nelson"
"Walter E. Ellis Walter E. Ellis (June 24, 1960 – December 1, 2013), also known as the Milwaukee North Side Strangler, was an American serial killer who raped and strangled seven women in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin between 1986 and 2007. The North Side Strangler victims were all African-American women. Milwaukee Police Department Homicide Detective Steven Spingola authored an e-magazine article, ""The Killer in Our Midst: the Case of Milwaukee's North Side Strangler"", which chronicled his investigation of the homicides of Sheila Farrior and Florence McCormick. Trained in criminal background analysis, Spingola provided a detailed profile of the killer,"
"him personally did not believe him capable of the crimes. It was also noted that the women allegedly killed by ""The Strangler"" were of widely varying ages, social strata and ethnicities, and that their deaths involved inconsistent modi operandi. Susan Kelly, an author who has had access to the files of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' ""Strangler Bureau"", argued in her book that the murders were the work of several killers, rather than that of a single individual. Another author, former FBI profiler Robert Ressler, has said that, ""You're putting together so many different patterns [regarding the Boston Strangler murders] that"
"Hillside Strangler The Hillside Strangler, later the Hillside Stranglers, is the media epithet for one, later two American serial killers who terrorized Los Angeles between October 1977 and February 1978, with the nicknames originating from the fact that many of the victims' bodies were discovered in the hills surrounding greater Los Angeles. The police, however, knew because of the positions of the bodies that two individuals were killing together, but withheld this information from the press. These two individuals were discovered to be cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, who were later convicted of kidnapping, raping, torturing, and murdering 10"
"Kenneth Erskine Kenneth Erskine (born 1 July 1963) is a British serial killer who became known as the Stockwell Strangler. Erskine was born in Hammersmith on 1 July 1963 to a British mother and Antiguan father. Erskine has three brothers. He was abandoned by both parents during childhood and attended various special schools. His parents divorced when he was 12. It was said that he sometimes read the Bible as a child. On a field trip, he tried to drown his peers, and he became more violent as he grew up. He eventually became homeless. Erskine's criminal career began with"
"Angelo Buono Jr. Angelo Anthony Buono Jr. (October 5, 1934 – September 21, 2002) was an American serial killer, kidnapper and rapist, who together with his cousin Kenneth Bianchi were known as the Hillside Stranglers, and were convicted of killing ten young women in Los Angeles, California between October 1977 and February 1978. Angelo Buono was born on October 5, 1934, in Rochester, New York to first generation Italian emigrants from San Buono. Buono had developed an extensive criminal history, ranging from failure to pay child support, grand theft auto, assault and rape. In 1975, when Buono was 41 years-old,"
"news release. Walter E. Ellis Walter E. Ellis (June 24, 1960 – December 1, 2013), also known as the Milwaukee North Side Strangler, was an American serial killer who raped and strangled seven women in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin between 1986 and 2007. The North Side Strangler victims were all African-American women. Milwaukee Police Department Homicide Detective Steven Spingola authored an e-magazine article, ""The Killer in Our Midst: the Case of Milwaukee's North Side Strangler"", which chronicled his investigation of the homicides of Sheila Farrior and Florence McCormick. Trained in criminal background analysis, Spingola provided a detailed profile of"
"Honolulu Strangler The Honolulu Strangler, also known as the Honolulu Rapist, was an unidentified Hawaii's first known serial killer and responsible for the death of five women in Honolulu between 1985 and 1986. The killer has not been caught. The first victim was Vicki Gail Purdy, age 25, a military spouse of Gary Purdy, an army helicopter pilot. She had left to go clubbing in Waikīkī on May 29, 1985, but failed to meet her friends. She was last seen by the taxi driver who drove her to the Shorebird Hotel at 12:00 a.m., apparently to retrieve her car, which"
"Benjamin Atkins Benjamin ""Tony"" Atkins (August 26, 1968 – September 17, 1997), also known as the Woodward Corridor Killer, was an American serial killer and rapist who murdered, tortured, and raped 11 women in Highland Park and Detroit, Michigan, during a period of nine months between December 1991 and August 1992. All the victims were found in vacant buildings, all had been raped and strangled. Most of them had been murdered in the suburb of Highland Park. Many of the victims were working as prostitutes, and Atkins said he was motivated by a hatred of prostitution. During his trial, it"
"Charles Bolster Judge Charles Stephen Bolster was a judge at the Middlesex Superior Court in East Cambridge, Massachusetts and a long-time resident of Bar Harbor, Maine who is best known for his involvement in the case of the Boston Strangler. Judge Bolster was a respected but undistinguished judge who was known to be unapologetically fair toward the defense despite being an arch-conservative in an extremely liberal state. Judge Bolster oversaw one of the Boston Strangler cases (as it was later concluded that the murders were likely committed by multiple individuals) beginning November 7, 1963. On the morning of November 22,"
"Gerold Frank Gerold Frank (August 2, 1907 – September 17, 1998) was an American author and ghostwriter. He wrote several celebrity memoirs and was considered a pioneer of the ""as told to"" form of (auto)biography. His two best-known books, however, are ""The Boston Strangler"" (1966), which was adapted as the 1968 movie starring Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda, and ""An American Death"" (1972), about the assassination of Martin Luther King. Frank was born in 1907 in Cleveland, Ohio, where his father was a tailor and owned a dress shop. He graduated from Ohio State University and moved to Greenwich Village"
"Randy Kraft Randy Steven Kraft (born March 19, 1945) is an American serial killer known as the Scorecard Killer, the Southern California Strangler and the Freeway Killer who murdered a minimum of 16 young men between 1972 and 1983, the majority of which had been committed in California. Kraft is also believed to have committed the rape and murder of up to 51 other boys and young men. He was convicted in May 1989 and is currently incarcerated on death row at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California. Kraft became known as the ""Scorecard Killer"", because upon his"
"there were ""drunk guys"". On December 19, 1953, Prigan was sentenced to three times life imprisonment after four days of trial. Unlike today, a total sentence of several life imprisonments was not yet formed. Bernhard Prigan Bernhard Prigan (born 1920) is a German serial killer who killed at least three women between the end of the 1940s and the early 1950s. He always sought his victims in the immediate vicinity of controlled-access highways and major roads, and it is unknown how many of these so-called ""Highway murders"" he committed. He was described by the press as ""The Strangler"" and ""The"