Name Albert De Salvo

Aliases "The Boston Strangler"

Location Boston, Chicago - USA

Born 1931

Died 26th November, 1973 (Found dead in his cell, stabbed through the heart

Status Deceased

Victims

Anna Slesers (55) Died 14th June 1962 (Discovered by her own son; Found to be strangled with her belt.)

Mary Mullen (85) Died 28th June 1962 (Killer left a New Year's greeting card wedged between the toes of her left foot.)

Nina Nichols (68) Died 30th June 1962

Helen Blake (65) Died 30th June 1962

Ida Irga (75) Died 19th August 1962

Jane Sullivan (67) Died 20th August 1962

Sophie Clark (20) Died 5th December 1962

Suspicions of a 'Mother-Killer' on the rampage are quashed by the latest killing.

Patricia Bissette (23) Died 31st December 1962

Mary Brown (69) Died 9th March 1963

Beverley Samans (23) Died 6th May 1963

Evelyn Corbin (58) Died 8th September 1963

Joann Graff (23) Died 23rd November 1963

Mary Sullivan (19) Died 4th January 1964

De Salvo posed as a detective, gaining easy entry. In actions completely uncharacteristic of his previous methods, he allowed his would-be victim to live.

Modus Operandi

De Salvo would spend a little time targeting his victims, gaining admission to the premises under the guise of being an official authorised to carry out business in the unsuspecting victim's home. All his victims were women, sexually assaulted, and strangled - usually with an item of their own clothing (stockings, tights which he would tie with a bow under the chin). In some cases strangulation had been accompanied by biting, bludgeoning and stabbing. For reasons which even De Salvo confessed to not knowing, he would position the victims body, after killing them, in obscene positions in such a way that whoever entered the house after he left would be presented with the shocking sight with no warning.