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This work examines the case of Albert DeSalvo, a handyman who confessed to eleven brutal rape‑murders in Boston between 1962 and 1964. It details his claim of having raped 2,000 women and the investigation that ultimately established that he was not the serial killer known as the Boston strangler. The book places DeSalvo’s crimes within the broader context of case studies, murder investigations, and the legal trials that followed.
First publish date: 1995
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Kelly, Susan.
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