It seems to be a commonly reoccurring theme among both serial and mass killers that they will inevitably claim crimes they had nothing to do with, in hope for more notoriety and infamy.

Or they will have these crimes foisted upon them by authorities, true a combination of being more keen on polishing up the police's public image and bringing those crime statistics down, but also

trying to quell public fears and tension of becoming the next victim of a violent maniac that

the public had read about in the papers.

I mean, how many times have we seen killers taking claim for victims that weren't theirs

just to get their numbers up, or authorities claiming that they've caught the killer, pinning it upon an innocent person, or serial killer, just innocent in this particular case.

We've seen it many times, right guys? Well, maybe not in a case quite like this one.

Hey you and welcome, my name is Mike Anand in this old podcast, it's time for the Boston Strangler,

the man, the murders, and did he do it? Really, that's a big old question in this one.

Albert DeSalvo, better known by one of his many nicknames, and we will get to each and every one of

them, has become one of the most notorious serial killers of the mid-20th century, right

up there with some real wronglands like Gein, Geese, and Dahmer.

Without a doubt he was a truly horrible person, but whether he was truly responsible for

all of the crimes attributed to him, it's a matter of fierce debate.

Officially, at least, DeSalvo was responsible for the murder of 13 unconnected women in the

greater Boston area, across a period of less than two years in the early 1960s.

Before we get into that spree, though, we should talk about where DeSalvo came from, and what

might have made him the monster that terrified, the female population of Boston MA.

Albert Henry DeSalvo was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, right across the mystic from Charlestown,

which is itself right across the Charles River from Boston. But really, it's all part of the,

you know, greater Boston area. Albert DeSalvo was born on September 3rd, 1931. Post-Gentrification Chelsea is a very different

place these days to how it was pre-World War II and the rest of the 20th century. Around the

...