The Boston Strangler, the mid 1960s were a turbulent time for a lot of people in America.

The burgeoning civil rights movement, the counter-cultural sexual revolution of the hippie movement

was kicking off and tensions from the Cold War meant that a lot of people were carrying around a

decent amount of anxiety about the future every single day. And the residents of Boston and the

Boston area from June 14th 1962 through July of 1964, they had even more to worry about. A man

the newspapers dubbed the Boston Strangler, somehow seemingly tricking one area woman after another

into being led into their homes where he would then proceed to strangle and rape them.

The papers were printing graphic crime scene details and criticizing the police for not being able

to catch the killer or even come up with a lead suspect, pushing many residents to the brink of

near hysteria. Police in five different jurisdictions scrambled to question every known pervert,

petty criminal, person with the history of mental illness and violence who might be connected to the

heinous crimes in some way in any way. And then the police found Albert DeSalvo. A man brought in

on seemingly unrelated charges who then confessed to everything. The Boston Strangler was behind bars,

case closed or maybe not. Irregularities in the crimes gaps in DeSalvo's story and the pressure

on authorities to solve the case have led some to believe that DeSalvo was responsible for maybe one

or two of the stranglers murders but not for the rest. And he was never charged with any of the

murders. Actually, no one was ever officially charged with the Boston Strangler murders. Many

years later, evidence would reveal that DeSalvo was responsible for at least one, but what about the

others? Today we'll dig into the strange case of the Boston Strangler and into the life of the

man who would confess to being the Strangler, a man who for sure committed other disgusting violent

crimes, Albert DeSalvo. We'll follow the Boston police department as they struggle to find the

perpetrator of these crimes that eventually form what was colloquially known as the Strangler Bureau.

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