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

I'm Joe, the host. Thank you for joining today.

And what you're joining right now

is part two of the two-part episode

on the Boston Strangler.

If you haven't listened to the first part,

stop this one right now

and go back and listen to the first part

and get caught up with what's going on.

We're going to launch right into part two right now. A 55-year-old dressmaker and devout churchgoer by the name of Anna Slessers was the first victim of the killings on June 14, 1962.

She was alone in her apartment at 77 Gainesboro Street in Boston.

Anna was home, waiting to be picked up by her son Juris and taken to a memorial service.

When he discovered her body in the bathroom with a cord, wrapped around her neck, and tied into a bow,

Juris assumed that she had committed suicide.

Slessers was discovered by homicide investigators John Driscoll and James Mellon in an obscene state,

naked and devoid of any dignity.

She had been sexually abused.

Her purse and its contents were scattered across the floor, giving the apartment the appearance of having been ransacked.

A gold watch and other valuable items were left behind, despite what might have been a robbery.

The authorities came to the conclusion that it was a failed burglary.

85-year-old Mary Mullen was discovered dead in her house, June 28, 1962, just under three weeks

later. The autopsy initially reported that Mullen died of a heart attack.

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