Episode 11: Digging Up the Past

Stranglers

SiriusXM Podcasts

Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Doubts and confusion about the identity of the Boston Strangler didn’t end with the death of lead suspect Albert DeSalvo. In fact, a small but determined group of family members and journalists continued to investigate the many unresolved questions surrounding the case--including the chilling possibility that some stranglers continued to live freely. In this episode, host Portland Helmich talks to Casey Sherman, nephew of victim Mary Sullivan (profiled in Episode 1) about his unlikely effort to exonerate DeSalvo. We learn about the existence of new forensic evidence, and about the strange, post-Strangler career of another major suspect: he moved to Michigan, and—perhaps coincidentally—a new series of murders began.

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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.
0:14.6	The mental discretion is advised.
0:21.8	Previously on Stranglers.
0:30.5	The self-confessed Boston Strangler was dead, but not without one last bit of controversy.
0:45.4	According to Dr. Robe, he wanted to explain why not the Boston Strangler?
0:51.3	Had the South have been killed over drugs or in a fight or to stop him from talking?
0:57.2	To add to the mystery, the South left behind a disturbing, poetic provocation.
1:03.4	The elusive Strangler, there he goes.
1:06.9	Where his wanderlust sends him, no one knows.
1:10.6	People everywhere are still in doubt.
1:14.2	Is the Strangler in prison or roaming about?
1:18.6	From Ear Wolf and Northern Light Productions, in partnership with Investigation Discovery,
1:26.8	this is Stranglers. I'm Portland Helmack.
1:29.4	This is New England.
1:37.4	A tremble in his hands.
1:39.4	And a slusses.
1:41.4	Either early.
1:43.4	Miss Jane Sullivan, 67, was found.
1:45.4	Even our word testimony comes from the etymological route for testicles.
1:49.4	And we're afraid, you know, we might be the next one.
1:53.4	It's the unknown, you never know, that we fear.
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