Decades later, DNA testing and competing theories continue to challenge Albert DeSalvo's admission of guilt Getty In the 1960s, 13 women were killed in the Boston area by a killer dubbed the Boston ...

Fifty years after the Boston Strangler -- or perhaps several stranglers -- stalked the streets, LIFE recalls the era with ...

The Boston Strangler is one of the most disturbing true crime cases in American history—but has the true culprit ever been caught? That’s the question at the center of a new Oxygen True Crime ...

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 ...

BOSTON — Fifty years ago Wednesday, a factory worker who claimed he was the notorious Boston Strangler was sentenced to prison. But questions still remain around Albert DeSalvo's confession. Many ...

The Boston Strangler’s first victim, Anna Slesers, was found dead on 14 June 1962. The 55-year-old had been killed with the belt from her own blue housecoat. In the months that followed, more women ...

BOSTON (AP) — It took a half-century for DNA sleuthing to finger Albert DeSalvo as the Boston Strangler. Now a new movie is revisiting one of America's most notorious serial killer cases and 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 ...

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 ...