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MADem

(135,425 posts) Sat Jul 20, 2013, 03:20 AM Jul 2013

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Massachusetts: DNA Match Made in Strangler Case

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/20/us/massachusetts-dna-match-made-in-strangler-case.html?_r=0

Law enforcement officials in Boston on Friday announced that the remains of a man who confessed he was the Boston Strangler match the DNA profile of seminal fluid found at the last of the crime scenes attributed to the serial killer.

Although Albert DeSalvo, a convicted rapist, confessed to the strangler murders, he was killed in prison and never prosecuted for them. Scientists recently extracted a DNA profile from seminal fluid found on and near the body of Mary Sullivan, who was strangled in 1964. After finding a familial match between that sample and one taken from a nephew of Mr. DeSalvo, investigators last week exhumed Mr. DeSalvo’s body to confirm the match.

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Massachusetts: DNA Match Made in Strangler Case (Original Post) MADem Jul 2013 OP

I had to read that several times... Ilsa Jul 2013 #1

Yes--everyone "knew" it was him, but there was always some tinfoiler sowing doubt here and there... MADem Jul 2013 #2

DO YOU HAVE A LINC luckyleftyme2 Aug 2013 #3

There is a link in the OP. nt MADem Aug 2013 #4

Ilsa

(62,282 posts)

1. I had to read that several times...

Reply to MADem (Original post)

Sat Jul 20, 2013, 06:00 AM

Jul 2013

I'm glad it was DeSalvo and that another killer didn't get away with it.

MADem

(135,425 posts)

2. Yes--everyone "knew" it was him, but there was always some tinfoiler sowing doubt here and there...

Reply to Ilsa (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 21, 2013, 12:24 AM

Jul 2013

This is the last victim, same MO, so I think we can be fairly confident in saying he was the bum that did those murders...

luckyleftyme2

(3,880 posts)

3. DO YOU HAVE A LINC

Reply to MADem (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 7, 2013, 09:39 PM

Aug 2013

\ YUP -AND AN IP

MADem

(135,425 posts)

4. There is a link in the OP. nt

Reply to luckyleftyme2 (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 7, 2013, 09:50 PM

Aug 2013

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