Someone was terrorizing the quiet neighborhoods of Boston — single women, quietly getting ready for bed, turning into victims of a nighttime predator who left no easy clues behind. "That confession ...

Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) -- DNA evidence taken from one of the 11 women killed by the Boston Strangler does not match that of Albert DeSalvo, who police have said was the infamous 1960s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the early 1960s, fear gripped the City of Boston. Someone was brutally killing single women and leaving an ominous calling card ...

Advances in DNA technology have allowed investigators to link longtime suspect Albert DeSalvo to the last of the 1960s slayings attributed to the Boston Strangler, a prosecutor said Thursday. The DNA ...

In 1965, Albert DeSalvo confessed to being the Boston Strangler, who had killed 13 women in a year-long rampage that had terrorized the city. But there have always been doubts about the validity in ...

Casey Sherman, the nephew of the youngest known victim of the Boston Strangler, doesn’t believe that the man who confessed to the notorious murders was the right suspect. “I honestly don’t believe ...

Albert DeSalvo, right, arrives for a court appearance in Cambridge, Mass., on Jan. 10, 1967. DeSalvo, a factory worker, claimed he was the notorious Boston Strangler, but questions still swirl around ...

Years later, Albert DeSalvo confessed to the murders, but he was only linked to the final victim with DNA evidence in 2013 As Oxygen re-examines the case on Oct. 26, doubts still remain about the ...

Casey Sherman, the nephew of the youngest known victim of the Boston Strangler, doesn’t believe that the man who confessed to the notorious murders was the right suspect. "I honestly don’t believe ...

Albert DeSalvo, who confessed — then recanted — to being the "Boston Strangler", was stabbed to death in 1973 at a maximum-security prison in Walpole, Massachusetts. DeSalvo was never indicted in the ...