Episode 136: Blood on the Cobblestones PT 1
On today’s episode, Kate and Paul head to Boston, Massachusetts in 1962 for the first part of a two-parter. Our hosts begin to survey the information as a large amount of women have been found… strangled.
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Sources:
“Roof Workers Quizzed in Murder of Divorcee” (The Boston Globe, June 15, 1962)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/433446549/?match=1&terms=Anna%20Slesers
“Burglar Slew Boston Woman, Detectives Say” (The Boston Globe, June 17, 1962)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/433449323/?match=1&terms=Anna%20Slesers
“Another Silk Stocking Murder” (The Boston Globe, July 3, 1962)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/433418932/
“Phantom Strangler Kills Sixth Woman” (The Boston Globe, August 31, 1962)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/433005367/
“Police Seek to Uncover Common Link of Victims” by Charles E. Claffey (The Boston Globe, September 2, 1962)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/433257280/?match=1&terms=%22jane%20sullivan%22
“What Did the Five Strangle Victims Have in Common?” (The Boston Globe, August 24, 1962)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/433004450/?match=1&terms=ida%20irga
“1st and 7th Strangling Only Few Blocks Apart” (The Boston Globe, December 2, 1962)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/433451569/?match=1&terms=%22sophie%20clark%22%20
“Hunt 2 Suspects in Strangling” (The Boston Globe, December 6, 1962)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/433452503/?match=1&terms=%22sophie%20clark%22%20
“Male Friend Hunted in Eighth Strangling” by Douglas S. Crocket (The Boston Globe, January 1, 1963)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/431209065/?match=1&terms=patricia%20bissette
“Lawrence Victim Beaten, Stabbed” by Jeremiah V. Murphy (The Boston Globe, March 7, 1963)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/431191514/?match=1&terms=%22Mary%20Brown%22
“Police Quiz Two Men in Coed Slaying” (The Boston Globe, May 9, 1963)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/433905815/?match=1&terms=%22Beverly%20Samans%22
“Girl’s Stricken Parents Here” (The Boston Globe, May 9, 1963)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/433905887/?terms=%22Beverly%20Samans%22
“Lynn Man to Assist Probers in Boston Slaying” (The Daily Item, May 9, 1963)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/947181130/?match=1&terms=%22Beverly%20Samans%22
“Latest Boston Strangling Found Similar to Others” (The Morning Union, January 6, 1964)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1069737659/?match=1&terms=%22mary%20sullivan%22%20
“HUB Police Push Hunt for Killer” (UPI, January 6, 1964)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1058355218/?match=1&terms=%22mary%20sullivan%22%20
“Prints Seen as Clue in Girl’s Strangling” by Jeffrey A. Ossoff
https://www.newspapers.com/image/433752289/?match=1&terms=%22mary%20sullivan%22%20
“Bailey to Identify ‘The Strangler’” by Sid Hurlburt (The Daily Item, January 6, 1967)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/947199412/?match=1&terms=albert%20desalvo
“He Was Looking a Little Silly” by Douglas S. Crocket (The Boston Globe, February 26, 1967)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/434054133/?match=1&terms=albert%20desalvo
“In 2001 DNA Evidence Didn’t Point to Albert DeSalvo as the Boston Strangler. New DNA Tests Do. What Gives?” by Justin Peters (Slate, July 11, 2013)
“DNA disclosure in Strangler case stirring emotions“ by Rhondella Richardson (WCVB, July 16, 2013)
https://www.wcvb.com/article/dna-disclosure-in-strangler-case-stirring-emotions-1/8185167
“Boston Strangler DNA tests confirm Albert DeSalvo killed final victim” (Associated Press, July 16, 2013)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/19/boston-stranger-dna-test-albert-desalvo
“Who was the Boston Strangler? New evidence may point to a different suspect” by Cheryl Fiandaca (WBEZ News, October 17, 2024)
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/boston-strangler-alber-desalvo-george-nassar/