In DeSalvo's trial, Bailey argued that the reason for DeSalvo's strange behavior and subsequent crimes stemmed from a childhood marred by violence and abuse. Defense attorney F. Lee Bailey spoke of Albert DeSalvo's early trauma: "One of several children, as a child he was cruelly, blatantly mistreated, that he was exposed to the most deviate conduct, that his ideas from early childhood were warped, and that although he appears to be as normal in appearance as you and I, that there is a facet to his personality that leaves him without control," according to The Boston Globe.
History reported DeSalvo's dad would bring home prostitutes and have sex with them in front of he and his siblings, and that he "brutally beat" the kids and his wife. Once he knocked out DeSalvo's mother's teeth, then, as she lay unconscious from the blow, he broke her fingers.
Stranglers kill by Strangulation. The 9 dates listed below represent a timeline of the life and crimes of serial killer Albert DeSalvo. A complete collection of serial killer events can be found on our Serial Killer Timeline.
The following serial killers were active during the same time span as Albert DeSalvo Albert Henry DeSalvo September 3, — November 25, was a criminal in Boston, Massachusetts, who confessed to being the "Boston Strangler", the murderer of 13 women in the Boston area from to 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. Albert DeSalvo is included in the following pages on Killer. Cloud the Serial Killer Database. GO Search. By Country. IQ Level. Zodiac Sign. Years Active. Confirmed Victims. Recent Serial Killers. Female Serial Killers.
Profile Completeness. View Statistics. See More Prior to his spree he had commited crimes, served time in jail, and served time in prison. Childhood Information D. Carroll Edward Cole 16 Victims during 33 Years. Peter Woodcock 4 Victims during 36 Years. Mack Ray Edwards 6 Victims during 18 Years. Joachim Georg Kroll 14 Victims during 22 Years. Kevin Smith Serial Killer Stranglers. Although Clark did not fit the same profile as the other victims, the police were sure it was the work of the same killer.
Furthermore, this time they had a lead regarding the killer's possible identification. A female neighbor informed the police that a man had knocked on her door, insisting that he had been sent to paint her apartment. He finally left after she told him that her husband was sleeping in the next room.
Three weeks later, another young woman's life ended tragically. Twenty-three-year-old Patricia Bissette was pregnant when she was found dead in her apartment near the area where Slesers and Clark had lived. Bissette was discovered by her boss when she didn't turn up for work. Her body lay in her bed covered by sheets, and she had been sexually assaulted and strangled with her own stockings. While the city appeared to have been spared another attack for several months, the police desperately tried to find any connection between the women and people they may have known.
Every sex offender on the Boston Police files was interviewed and checked, yet still nothing turned up. Before long, a series of murders started again. This time the body of year-old Mary Brown was found strangled and raped 25 miles north of the city in March Two months later, the ninth victim, Beverly Samans, was found.
The year-old graduate had missed choir practice on the day of her murder, May 8, Samans was found with her hands tied behind her back with one of her scarves. A nylon stocking and two handkerchiefs were tied around her neck. Bizarrely, a piece of cloth over her mouth hid a second cloth which had been stuffed in her mouth. Four stab wounds to her neck had most likely killed her rather than strangulation.
There were a further 22 stab wounds to Samans's body, 18 in the shape of a bulls-eye on her right breast. She had been raped, but there was no evidence of semen. It was thought that because of her strong throat muscles due to singing, the killer had to taken to stabbing her instead of strangulation. The police, who were now desperate, even sought the help of a clairvoyant.
He described the killer as a mental patient who had absconded from Boston State Hospital on the days the killings took place. However, this was soon discounted when another murder was committed. On September 8, , in Salem, Evelyn Corbin, youthful-looking year-old divorcee became the latest victim.
Corbin was found nude and on her bed face up. Her underwear had been stuffed in her mouth and again there were traces of semen, both on lipstick stains and in her mouth. Corbin's apartment had been ransacked in a similar fashion. On November 25, Joann Graff, a year-old industrial designer was raped and killed in her apartment in the Lawrence section of the city.
Several descriptions of her attacker matched those of the man who had asked to paint Clark's neighbor's flat. The description detailed a man wearing dark green slacks, dark shirt and jacket. On January 4, , one of the most gruesome murders was discovered when two women came across the body of their roommate. Mary Sullivan was found dead sitting on her bed, her back against the headboard.
She had been strangled with a dark stocking. She had been sexually assaulted with a broom handle. This obscenity was rendered even more disturbing by the fact that a Happy New Year card lay wedged between her feet. The same hallmarks of the killer were evident; a ransacked apartment, few valuables taken and the victims strangled with their own underwear or scarves, which were tied into bows. The city was panic stricken and the situation prompted the drafting in of a top investigator to head the hunt for the Strangler.
Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke, the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in the state, began work on January 17, , to bring the serial killer to book. There was pressure was on Brooke, the only African American attorney general in the country, to succeed where others had failed. Brooke headed up a task force that included assigning permanent staff to the Boston Strangler case. He brought in Assistant Attorney General John Bottomly, who had a reputation for being unconventional.
Bottomly's force had to sift through thousands of pages of material from different police forces. Police profiling was relatively new in the early s, but they came up with what they thought was the most likely description of the killer. He was believed to be around thirty, neat and orderly, worked with his hands and was most likely a loner who may be divorced or separated.
After a spell in prison for breaking and entering, DeSalvo went on to commit more serious crimes. He had broken into a woman's apartment, tied her up on the bed and held a knife to her throat before molesting her and running away. The victim gave the police a good description, one that matched his likeness sketch from his previous crimes. Shortly afterward, DeSalvo was arrested. It was after he had been picked out of an identity parade that DeSalvo admitted to robbing hundreds of apartments and carrying out a couple of rapes.
He then confessed to being the Boston Strangler. Despite the police not believing him at the time, DeSalvo was sent to Bridgewater State Hospital to be assessed by psychiatrists. He was assigned an attorney by the name of F.
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