Episode 12: Memorial

Stranglers

SiriusXM Podcasts

Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

55 years after the Boston Strangler murders first began, and despite decades of investigation, the search for answers continues. Although we may never know the truth about what happened to these women, we can draw some conclusions about the likely killers, and we can reach a new understanding about how crimes like this occur. In our final episode, Adele Roof, once nearly a victim herself, joins host Portland Helmich on a touching, thought-provoking journey back to Boston.

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0:00.0	The following program includes descriptions of graphic and sexually explicit violence.
0:09.7	This show may not be suitable for those affected by such descriptions or for young listeners.
0:14.6	Parental discretion is advised.
0:19.4	Previously on Stranglers.
0:21.9	The first of the Boston Stranglers murders was Anna Sleser's.
0:26.5	As a Sleser's, a retired seamstress had been strangled manually.
0:29.9	Then the belt from her housecoat had been twisted about her neck.
0:32.5	Her name was Edith Sorghain.
0:34.8	She was my grandmother.
0:36.7	Why has anyone going around murdering these elderly women?
0:40.5	My dearest Chuck.
0:42.6	May this let us find the man I love well.
0:45.4	That type of change in victim, not only in race, but in age, would tell me we're not dealing with the same guy.
0:52.6	Patricia Jane beset.
0:54.0	I remember detecting the slightest bit of a tremble in his hands.
1:00.3	He said, son, I had this strangler.
1:03.4	It's sort of heartbreaking at times.
1:05.5	We get our foot in the door, so to speak, and the bottom falls out of our hot lead.
1:11.7	He went to the courthouse and found Salvo had been released a year early.
1:17.0	I told her I talked to her and do some work in the apartment.
1:20.1	Autumn-laced conduct of the interrogation of the Salvo was very atypical.
1:26.0	I want to show the guys insane. That's my defense.
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