Due to the graphic nature of this killer's crimes,

listener discretion is advised.

This episode includes dramatizations and discussions

of murder and assault that some people may find offensive.

We advise extreme caution for children under 13.

In a perfect world, a serial killer's confession would be the end of the story.

A serial killer is charged and convicted for the confessed crime or crimes, then heads

to jail for a life sentence.

For Albert de Salvo, though, his confession is where the biggest mystery of the Boston's triangular began.

As we discussed last week, the Boston's triangular raped and murdered 13 women around the New England city from 1962 until 1964.

The murders are often attributed to Army veteran Albert DeSauvo.

But the identity of the serial killer is still often disputed due to his unreliable confession,

his trial, and his mysterious death in jail.

33-year-old DeSalvo confessed to being the Boston Strangler in March 1965, while he was admitted to

Bridgewater State Hospital for The Green Man series of sexual assaults.

Psychiatrists diagnosed him as a sociopath and as, quote, assaults. unfit to stand trial and send him to Bridgewater.

At the hospital, he loved to boast about his previous crimes,

as many sociopaths often tend to do.

He bragged to his fellow patients

about how he used to impersonate a modeling agent and fondled women in the measuring man assaults in Boston

He claimed the women enjoyed it

DeSaloated about how he had raped four to five women in a single morning in Connecticut.

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