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A Murder On Orchard Street

Introducing "Truth and Lies: The Boston Strangler"

A Murder On Orchard Street

ABC News

True Crime

4.14K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Sixty years later, the story of the Boston Strangler still has a hold on the public imagination. The new ABC Audio podcast, "Truth and Lies: The Boston Strangler," retraces the tragic fate of the victims and explores why a killer’s confession never closed this decades-old case. "Truth and Lies: The Boston Strangler" -- a new three-part series, available on Apple Podcasts (https://apple.co/3wgRdzb), Spotify (https://spoti.fi/3XFQm6X), Amazon Music (https://amzn.to/3ksWvFj), or wherever you're listening now. And check out “Boston Strangler,” starring Keira Knightley, streaming now on Hulu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Mark Remelard, host of ABC's Truth and Lies, Jeffrey Epstein, and a killing on the K.

0:05.7

You've probably heard of the Boston Strangler, a serial killer who terrorized the Boston area

0:10.8

in the 1960s, but something that might surprise you is even after 13 murders and a confession

0:17.2

to this day, almost all of those murder cases are considered unsolved. That's the focus of Truth

0:23.6

and Lies, the Boston Strangler, a new podcast from my colleagues at ABC News. Here the story

0:29.3

and why, even today, so many questions remain unanswered. We're about to play you the trailer for

0:35.0

this new season of Truth and Lies. While you're listening, I hope you'll click the link in the

0:39.2

episode description to follow Truth and Lies, the Boston Strangler, for the rest of the story,

0:44.4

and make sure to watch Boston Strangler streaming on Hulu.

0:48.1

In the early 1960s, a killer held Boston in a state of fear.

0:54.0

Women were taking coke bottles, breaking them up, and putting the broken jagged glass on their

1:00.9

window sills so that if somebody tried to commit a window, they were going to step on the broken glass.

1:05.7

It was a crime spree that stumped police for years. It was novel to have a serial killer

1:13.2

continue to kill while the police are looking for him. They had hundreds and hundreds of suspects.

1:20.3

I'm Dick Lair. I'm an author and journalist in Boston where more than a half century ago,

1:25.3

13 women opened their doors to the man who would end their lives. The killer's signature brutal method,

1:33.0

strangling them with their own nylon stockings, bath rope ties, and scarves.

1:38.3

Another body in Boston. Mary Sullivan's 44-A Charles Street apartment two.

1:45.2

His rampage vexed investigators.

1:47.7

The guard name of the investigation needed to be with the carry of normal crime.

1:53.3

The police at one point turned to a psychic.

1:56.3

A story of the Boston Strangler continues to have a hold on the popular imagination.

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