biography
pronunciation:
[desalvoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (?–1973)
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| biography:
| Convicted US sex offender. After his arrest in late 1964 for sex attacks on women in their homes, he confessed to a psychiatrist that he was the Boston Strangler who had murdered 13 women between 1962 and 1964 in Boston, MA. He was never tried for the murders, because under Massachusetts law a doctor who receives information from a suspect cannot use it as evidence. Sentenced to life imprisonment for his other crimes, he was found stabbed to death in his cell in Walpole Prison, MA. |
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