Mary Mullen, 85, died from a heart attack found on Jin her apartment at 1435 Commonwealth Ave., Boston.Å lesers, 56, sexually assaulted with unknown object and strangled with the belt on her bathrobe found on Jin her third-floor apartment at 77 Gainsborough Street, Fenway, Boston The apparent connections were widely discussed between a majority of the victims and hospitals. The police were not convinced that all the murders were the actions of one person, although much of the public believed so. Hurkos provided a 'minutely detailed description of the wrong person,' and the press ridiculed Brooke. He permitted parapsychologistPeter Hurkos to use his alleged extrasensory perception to analyze the cases, for which Hurkos claimed that a single person was responsible. Brooke helped to coordinate the various police forces. The murders occurred in several cities, including Boston, complicating jurisdictional oversight for prosecution of the crimes. Many residents purchased tear gas and new locks and deadbolts for their doors. The attacks continued despite extensive media publicity after the first few murders, which presumably should have discouraged women from admitting strangers into their homes. With no sign of forced entry into their homes, the women were assumed to have let their assailant in, either because they knew him or because they believed him to be an apartment maintenance man, delivery man, or other service man. Most were sexually assaulted and strangled in their apartments police believe that one man was the perpetrator. Events īetween Jand January 4, 1964, 13 single women between the ages of 19 and 85 were murdered in the Boston area.
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In 1963, two investigative reporters for the Record American, Jean Cole and Loretta McLaughlin, wrote a four-part series about the killer, dubbing him 'The Boston Strangler.' By the time that DeSalvo's confession was aired in open court, the name 'Boston Strangler' had become part of crime lore. Initially, the crimes were assumed to be the work of one unknown person dubbed 'The Mad Strangler of Boston.' The Jedition of the Sunday Herald, declared 'A mad strangler is loose in Boston,' in an article titled 'Mad Strangler Kills Four Women in Boston.' The killer was also known as the 'Phantom Fiend' or 'Phantom Strangler' due to his ability to get women to allow him into their apartments. Since then, parties investigating the crimes have suggested that the murders (sometimes referred to as 'the silk stocking murders') were committed by more than one person. The crimes were attributed to Albert DeSalvo based on his confession, details revealed in court during a separate case, and DNA evidence linking him to the last victim. The Boston Strangler is the name given to the murderer or murderers of 13 women in the Boston, Massachusetts area during the early 1960s.
In the case of Piper, who is charged with the murder of Mabel Young in a church belfry, he was first apprehended by citizens, then turned over to the Boston officers, since which time his case has slumbered. Thus the press served the ends of justice in this as in the Langmaid case, and in spite of the so-called detectives. (Redirected from Mary Sullivan (murder victim))
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