Episode 8: Confessions

Stranglers

SiriusXM Podcasts

Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In 1965, a series of swift maneuvers by Albert DeSalvo’s attorney, F. Lee Bailey, blocked investigators from closing in on their prime Strangler suspect. DeSalvo was more than ready to talk: he had given investigators nearly 60 hours of recorded confessions. But before fully understanding the crimes DeSalvo had committed, the State of Massachusetts agreed that DeSalvo’s testimony about the murders couldn’t be used against him in court. Bailey leads host Portland Helmich through his legal maneuvers as he battles to keep DeSalvo out of the electric chair. We also hear chilling details about the Strangler murders in excerpts from DeSalvo’s recorded confessions. Despite DeSalvo’s astonishing recall of the 13 stranglings, he gets the most important detail wrong. Could he in fact be lying?

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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, we had these out with pretty well tied up.
0:27.1	Three years after the investigation began, Detective Fildin-Itali was closing in on a suspect.
0:33.5	And we found out that he was in the areas of the murder.
0:36.6	At the time, these murders were committed.
0:40.7	Albert DeSalvo was being held at Bridgewater State Hospital, where he met fellow inmate George
0:46.0	Nasser. DeSalvo confessed that he was the Boston Strangler and told Nasser he wanted to sell his story.
0:52.8	He asked me who would be in good attorney form.
0:55.8	Then I had a high profile attorney at the time, F. Lee Bailey, so that made it, uh, he felt a good fit.
1:04.1	F. Lee Bailey believed DeSalvo was the Strangler, and within a matter of days, so did the police.
1:10.3	They called the police commissioner out of a black tie dinner, and they said commissioner,
1:15.9	this guy looked far better than anyone we've looked at in this entire investigation.
1:22.8	The press got hold of the story. Suddenly, all eyes were on Bridgewater,
1:28.8	and the investigators waited for their chance to interrogate the self-identified Boston Strangler.
1:35.7	From Stitcher and Northern Light Productions, in partnership with Investigation Discovery,
1:46.9	this is Stranglers. I'm Portland Helmock.
1:49.5	Hey everybody ready? This is New England. New England.
1:54.8	And of Slesens, either earlier. Miss Jane Sullivan, 67 was found.
1:59.0	It was Strangler, usually with a piece of their own clothing.
2:02.3	They became sisters in death.
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