Episode 1: Sisters in Death

Stranglers

SiriusXM Podcasts

Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In 1964, 19-year-old Mary Sullivan was strangled to death in her apartment, the 13th victim of a killing spree that had terrorized Boston for 18 months. Her death remained unsolved for nearly 50 years. The same is true for a dozen more deaths attributed to the Boston Strangler. In our first episode, we meet Mary, as well as the killer’s first victims, and begin to explore the many unanswered questions that continue to haunt the victims’ families, the police who worked on the case, and the reporters who turned it into a national story.

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0:00.0	The following program includes descriptions of graphic and sexually explicit violence.
0:09.6	This show may not be suitable for those affected by such descriptions or for young listeners.
0:14.7	The mental discretion is advised.
0:21.7	This is New England.
0:22.7	Articles of silk or satin.
0:24.7	We were all afraid to let strangers come through the door.
0:29.7	Half a million fingerprints.
0:31.7	We started locking the doors.
0:32.7	We had normal sexual tendency.
0:34.7	It was a man hunt of the sentron.
0:37.7	All we knew of somebody was killing people.
0:40.7	It's the unknown that we fear.
0:44.7	If you really want to reach these people, you go to where they are.
0:49.7	To the hometown.
0:50.7	Home town town town town.
1:01.7	Our hometown, Hyena's Massachusetts in the 60s, was a quiet little peaceful village.
1:09.7	There were lots of green space and trees and none of the big shopping centers and malls were there.
1:15.7	Everyone knew everyone and it was just a wonderful place to grow up.
1:19.7	It was very safe and quiet and fun.
1:24.7	This was Mary Sullivan's hometown.
1:27.7	It's about 70 miles from Boston.
1:29.7	But even today, it's a world apart.
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