Breakthrough in Boston Strangler Case

Friday, 12 July 2013 | by Pat's Picks

Police have just announced a breakthrough in the notorious Boston Strangler case. For decades authorities were unable to link the last of the 11 murders by the Boston Strangler to Albert DeSalvo but the Globe says police tracked down a nephew of the alleged killer and retrieved DNA from him after he dropped a water bottle at a construction site. The DNA proved with a 99 percent certainty that it was in fact DeSalvo’s DNA on the last victim’s body. They’ll exhume DeSalvo today in order to verify their findings.

SOURCE: Boston Globe