The Boston Strangler is a name attributed to the murder

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er (or murderers) of several women in Boston

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, in the early 1960s. Though the crimes were attributed to Albert DeSalvo

Albert DeSalvo

Albert Henry DeSalvo was a criminal in Boston, Massachusetts who confessed to being the "Boston Strangler", the murderer of 13 women in the Boston area. DeSalvo was not imprisoned for these murders, however, but for a series of rapes...

, investigators of the case have since suggested the murders (sometimes known as the silk stocking murders) were not committed by one person.

• Anna E. Slesers, 55, sexually molested with unknown object and strangled with the cord on her bathrobe; found on June 14, 1962 in the third-floor apartment at 77 Gainsborough St., Back Bay (source: Boston Globe Archives)
• Mary Mullen, 85, died from a heart attack but in the confession was said to have collapsed as the strangler grabbed her; found on June 28, 1962
• Nina Nichols, 68, sexually molested and strangled with her nylon stockings; found on June 30, 1962
• Helen Blake, 65, sexually molested and strangled with her nylon stockings; found on June 30, 1962 in her apartment at 73 Newhall Street, Lynn, Mass.
• Ida Irga, 75, sexually molested and strangled; found on August 21, 1962 at 7 Grove Street in Boston
• Jane Sullivan, 67, sexually assaulted and strangled with her nylon stockings; found on August 30, 1962 at 435 Columbia Road, Dorchester

• Sophie Clark, 20, sexually assaulted and strangled with her nylon stockings; found on December 5, 1962, Boston Back Bay
• Patricia Bissette, 23, sexually assaulted and strangled with her nylon stockings; found on December 31, 1962, Boston Back Bay
• Mary Brown, 69, stabbed, strangled and beaten, found on March 9, 1963 in Lawrence, Mass.
• Beverly Samans, 23, stabbed to death on May 8, 1963 at 4 University Road in Cambridge, Mass.
• Evelyn Corbin, 58, sexually assaulted and strangled with her nylon stockings; found on September 6, 1963 in Salem, Mass.
• Joann Graff, 23, sexually assaulted and strangled on November 23, 1963 in Lawrence, Mass.
• Mary Sullivan, 19, sexually assaulted and strangled with dark stockings; found on January 4, 1964

Between June 14, 1962 and January 4, 1964, 13 single women (between the ages of 19 and 85) were murdered in the Boston area.