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| Inmate Albert DeSalvo’s claim he was Boston Strangler was backed up by DNA test |
| By dailytelegraph.com.au- Troy Lennon |
| Published: 01/17/2017 |
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LAWYER Francis Lee Bailey summed up the verdict with the pithy phrase “Massachusetts has just burned another witch”. His client Albert DeSalvo had just been sentenced to life for sexual assault and burglary, 50 years ago today. But DeSalvo was hardly an innocent accused by paranoid villagers, as Bailey’s metaphor suggested. In fact Bailey’s client had earlier confessed to a series of 13 murders attributed to the “Boston Strangler”. However, police didn’t have enough evidence to bring DeSalvo to trial for those crimes. It must have been frustrating for detectives on the Boston Strangler case to see their killer tried and sentenced to life for unrelated offenses. Read More. |
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