'Boston Strangler' | Ep. 3: The Confession

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ABC News

True Crime

4.0 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Today we bring you the third episode of "Truth and Lies: The Boston Strangler," a new multi-part podcast series from ABC Audio on the 13 victims of the Boston Strangler, the inconclusive investigation, and how even after a killer confessed, it didn’t end the story. The whole series is available now on Apple Podcasts (https://apple.co/3wgRdzb), Spotify (https://spoti.fi/3XFQm6X), Amazon Music (https://amzn.to/3ksWvFj), or your app of choice. And make sure to check out "Boston Strangler," streaming now on Hulu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	2020 fans, this is Dick Lair, host of Truth in Lies, The Boston Strangler.
0:05.5	And this week we're bringing you the third episode of our new three-part series about a
0:09.7	murder case from the 1960s that was never closed.
0:13.8	If you've missed any of these episodes, you can find the whole series and more Truth in
0:18.0	Lies stories by following Truth in Lies, The Boston Strangler, using the link in our
0:23.3	episode description.
0:25.2	A word of warning, there are descriptions of violence in this episode that some listeners
0:30.6	may find disturbing.
0:32.2	It's 3 a.m., a seven-year-old boy named Al wakes up and gets out of bed.
0:42.3	The year is 1938.
0:45.3	Al is a plan.
0:46.3	He's going to break into a neighbor's house with a friend while everyone is asleep.
0:51.5	Al knows this neighbor.
0:53.2	He runs errands for her after school to earn some pocket money.
0:57.7	The boys make it inside her home without getting caught.
1:01.2	Al opens the front hall closet.
1:04.0	And there it is.
1:06.8	A fur coat.
1:09.4	Al and his buddy are thrilled.
1:11.5	It's exactly what they wanted, but not for the sake of fashion.
1:16.4	Instead, they take it with them.
1:18.4	They climb to the top of the stairs, wrap the fur coat around the banister of the stairway,
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