The Boston Strangler.......

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I am going to tell you all about :  

                                  "The Boston Strangler" 

1. The Boston Strangler was a serial killer and rapist who started his killings in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 1960s.
2.  The first murder commited by the Boston Strangler was on June 14, 1962.
3. The victim was Anna E. Slesers, a 55-year-old seamstress.
4. Initially the death was assumed as an sucide but between the day and august 30,there were 5 more women dead.

• During the investigation, two psychics got involved with the task force in charge of the case, the "Strangler Bureau". The first, Paul Gordon, was an ad copywriter said to have ESP powers. He made a description of the killer of Anna E. Slesers which fit Arnold Wallace, a mental patient held at Boston State Hospital who had escaped on several occasions, most of which coincided with the Strangler murders.

•  When he was consulted about the seventh Strangler murder, that of Sophie Clark, he, surprisingly, displayed detailed knowledge of her apartment and made a description that fit Lewis Barnett, who was an initial suspect in the murder. Nothing concrete came out of Gordon's advice. 

• The second psychic, Peter Hurkos, was a well-known psychic all of his life. He claimed to have assisted in the investigation and is confirmed to have been in Boston at the time of the investigation and to have spent time with the police, but a few days later, he was arrested for impersonating a police officer in order to gather information and later convicted of it.

• James A. Brussel, who previously had made a spot-on profile of the Mad Bomber in New York, aided the authorities. Unlike many contemporary and later psychologists and psychoanalysts involved in the case, he asserted that the murders were the work of a single man, attributing the changes in his behavior to changes in his regular life. 

• In November of 1964, a convicted burglar named Albert DeSalvo , was caught for an unrelated series of attacks and confessed to the Strangler murders.

Albert Desalvo

• DeSalvo was sentenced to life in prison in 1967. 

• In February of that year, he escaped with two fellow inmates from Bridgewater State Hospital, triggering a full scale manhunt. 

• A note was found on his bunk addressed to the superintendent. In it DeSalvo stated that he had escaped to focus attention on the conditions in the hospital and his own situation.

•  The next day he gave himself up. Following the escape he was transferred to the maximum security Walpole State Prison.

  

"six years later, he was found stabbed to death in the infirmary. His killer or killers were never identified."

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