Episode 9: Testimony

Stranglers

SiriusXM Podcasts

Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Albert Desalvo said he committed all the Strangler murders, but he would never be tried for those crimes. Instead, he would stand trial for his crimes as the Green Man. DeSalvo’s wily lawyer, F. Lee Bailey, used DeSalvo’s violent history and his reputation as the Boston Strangler to assert that his client was not guilty by reason of legal insanity. In this episode, we’ll follow the prosecution and defense as they attempt to sway the jury, and we'll hear chilling trial excerpts. We’ll also learn how one popular '50s television sitcom may have given Albert DeSalvo the rationale he needed to invade the homes of hundreds—perhaps thousands—of women.

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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.
0:20.1	Previously on Stranglers.
0:22.7	When I get to the top of the stairs, she's on the landing.
0:26.2	I told her I was going to do some work in the apartment.
0:29.4	Albert DeSalvo confessed to all of the Boston Strangler murders.
0:33.9	I saw a purplish dark blood came out of a right ear, but I strangled her first with my arm
0:39.1	and then the pillowcase.
0:40.8	Nearly 60 hours of details.
0:43.7	All of them recorded, analyzed, and cross checked.
0:47.5	But none of that could be used against a salvo in court.
0:51.4	His lawyer, Eiffely Bailey, had made sure of that.
0:54.6	Why would the Attorney General's office ever agree to that?
0:57.1	Because they had no choice.
0:58.6	No one had ever been arrested for any of the stranglings, but lives had been ruined.
1:04.7	They chose the greater good because they wanted to clear up the mysteries.
1:10.4	The Confessions convinced the task force DeSalvo was the Strangler,
1:14.8	but his stories contained a lot of mistakes.
1:17.7	Plus, there was the question of DeSalvo's motive for confessing in the first place.
1:22.6	DeSalvo was convinced that he could make a great deal of money from the sale of his life story.
1:28.9	You know, he was also convinced that he would not go to prison,
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