Episode 7: Bridgewater

Stranglers

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

By November, 1964, detective Phil DiNatale was closing in on a prime suspect, Albert DeSalvo, who had a long record of sexual assaults. DeSalvo was already in custody, in fact, at Bridgewater State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where he was undergoing psychiatric evaluation. But while the police were gathering evidence, DeSalvo was confessing to a fellow inmate, George Nassar, that HE was the Boston Strangler. In this episode, host Portland Helmich visits George Nassar in prison to learn more about DeSalvo’s confession. She also meets DeSalvo’s attorney, F. Lee Bailey, who rose to prominence in his defense of DeSalvo, and who changed the course of the Boston Strangler investigation by getting to Bridgewater and DeSalvo one day ahead of the police.

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0:00.0	The following program includes descriptions of graphic and sexually explicit violence.
0:09.8	This show may not be suitable for those affected by such descriptions or for young listeners.
0:14.9	Parental discretion is advised.
0:21.7	Previously on Stranglers.
0:25.0	In January 1965, Detective Fildi Natali received a solid lead, a letter from a nurse describing
0:33.1	a man who had attacked her.
0:35.3	She said the man's name was Albert DeSalvo.
0:38.8	Albert DeSalvo told her that he was the boss of Stranglers after he raped her and bound
0:44.0	in gagged her the same MO as some of the Stranglers victims.
0:48.8	DeSalvo soon became convinced that DeSalvo was a prime suspect for the Stranglers murders,
0:54.6	but there was a problem, a big one.
1:01.6	But Fildi Natali decided to recheck, just to make sure.
1:06.1	He went to the courthouse, went through the files, and found Salvo had been released a year
1:12.3	early, so thus Albert was on the street for the first murder.
1:17.7	We also found out that he was in the area at the time these murders were committed.
1:24.5	Albert DeSalvo was being held at Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane.
1:30.8	He'd been arrested in connection with another series of sexual assaults.
1:35.4	Fildi Natali prepared to meet the man he believed was the Boston Strangler.
1:43.7	From Stitcher and Northern Light Productions in partnership with Investigation Discovery,
1:48.8	this is Stranglers.
1:49.8	I'm Portland Helmock.
1:54.5	This is New England.
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