Episode 10: Fame and Consequences

Stranglers

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Boston is gripped by fear once again after Albert DeSalvo escapes from Bridgewater State Hospital. But imprisonment never stops the man most people believed to be the Boston Strangler from communicating with—and attempting to manipulate—those outside. In this episode, we get an exclusive glimpse of DeSalvo’s extensive correspondence with his pursuer, Detective Phil DiNatale. DeSalvo never left prison again, but host Portland Helmich follows Phil DiNatale to Hollywood, where he became an official advisor and major character in the very successful 1968 film, The Boston Strangler. While the movie solidified many of the publicly accepted myths about the stranglings, DeSalvo’s mysterious death in prison only adds to the confusion surrounding the Strangler’s identity.

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0:00.0	The following program includes descriptions of graphic and sexually explicit violence.
0:10.0	This show may not be suitable for those affected by such descriptions or for young listeners.
0:15.0	Parental discretion is advised.
0:20.0	Previously on Stranglers.
0:23.0	When the jury came back, I knew immediately what the verdict was because they wouldn't look at me and they wouldn't look at Albert.
0:29.0	Albert DeSalvo was found guilty of the Green Man crimes. The judge sentenced him to life.
0:35.0	The judge ordered him not to prison but to be returned to bridge water, which is about the worst place in Massachusetts to be or at least it was in the 60s.
0:46.0	It is questionable now that Albert DeSalvo, the man who says he is responsible for all this, will ever stand trial as the Boston Strangler.
0:55.0	But it is clear that he will never be set free again.
1:00.0	Women in Boston were safe or so they thought.
1:08.0	At dawn on February 24th, 1967, just a month after DeSalvo was sentenced, a security guard at Bridgewater was making his rounds.
1:18.0	He appeared into DeSalvo's room. It was dark and he couldn't hear any breathing. Something was very wrong.
1:32.0	The judge was sentenced to life.
1:37.0	The judge ordered him not to prison.
1:43.0	From Stitcher and Northern Light Productions in partnership with Investigation Discovery, this is Stranglers. I'm Portland Helmock.
1:52.0	Miss Jane Sullivan, 67, was found.
1:56.0	It was Stranglers, usually with a piece of their own clothing.
1:59.0	He asked me not to tell his mother.
2:05.0	Episode 10. Fame and Consequences.
2:12.0	Now, he wrote this one page when you see the writing, you can see how it starts to slant.
2:25.0	Damn it, Mr. Goggin. Sorry, but I feel I've had it. I just don't understand the law or people.
2:31.0	I truly thought that I was doing the right thing by telling the truth each day that goes by.
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