Welcome to 10-minute murder, brief and bingeable true crime.

My name is Joe. I'm the host, and thank you for joining today.

And it's a special episode, kind of.

Something we have it done in quite some time, a serial killer Sunday.

And you could be listening to this on a day that is not Sunday,

and in that case, it's just the normal episode for you.

And I've been asked quite a few times over the last year or two

since I stopped doing serial killer Sunday, why I stopped doing it.

And the reason is, pretty simple, statistics.

People aren't really listening on Sundays, and I felt like I was putting in a whole lot of work on a Sunday for nobody to listen. I mean, people were listening to it, but that's the least listen to day, which is originally, by the way, why I started doing it. I thought, well, there aren't that many people listening on Sunday. I bet I can drive up those numbers if I do like a special episode on Sunday. And it did. You know, it works. More people listen on Sunday than the average Sunday. But there's a lot of work that goes into it. And it just didn't, the payoff wasn't there, if that makes any sense. So I stopped doing it. I thought, well, people aren't interested. And then I got

inundated with emails about it as after a while after I stopped doing it. So I'm going to try to do it more often. It's absolutely not going to be in every Sunday type of thing, but I'm going to do it as often as I can. If you follow on social media, I'll give you a heads up as to when that will happen and because I haven't done it in quite some time I decided to make this one a two-part

episode you know I try to keep these episodes to 10 minutes or less and I guess I

could do that with this episode I'd be packing a ton of stuff into 10 minutes

like normal but I figured I would just do two parts of this one so this this one you're listening to now is obviously the first part. And before we get going into it, if you are a brand new listener to 10-minute murder, make sure you hit subscribe wherever you'd like to listen to podcasts. I'm assuming it's wherever you're listening right now. Hit subscribe, you won't miss any future episodes, and you won't have to go searching for it every time you'd like to listen to 10-minute murder. It's just always right there for you. It's absolutely free, and I think super convenient to be a subscriber to 10-minute murder. Also, like I mentioned before, connect on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, links from the show notes of this episode, or you can go to 10-minutemurder.com.

Now to today's story.

In Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 3rd, 1931, Albert Henry DeSalvo was born.

DeSalvo, one of five brothers, experienced a difficult childhood.

As you know, is common with those that go on to become serial offenders.

According to Gerald Frank's 1966 book, The Boston Strangler,

his father was an alcoholic who believed in

equality within his family. But that equality

consisted of beating each and every single member

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