BOSTON (AP) – DNA tests confirm that the man who once claimed to be the Boston Strangler did kill the woman believed to be the serial killer’s last victim and was likely responsible for the deaths of ...

Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) -- DNA evidence taken from one of the 11 women killed by the Boston Strangler does not match that of Albert DeSalvo, who police have said was the infamous 1960s ...

Boston Strangler remains one of the most infamous serial killers in the world, whose identity remains a mystery. The person murdered at least 13 women during the early 1960s. The lack of DNA testing ...

With a photo image of Mary Sullivan at left, James Starrs, a professor of forensic science and law at George Washington University, announces that DNA evidence taken from Sullivan, who is believed to ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Almost 50 years after the "Boston Strangler" murders of 11 women terrified the city, prosecutors on Thursday said new DNA evidence linked a man, who confessed to the killings but ...

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Advances in DNA technology have allowed investigators to link longtime suspect Albert DeSalvo to the last of the 1960s slayings attributed to the Boston Strangler, a prosecutor said Thursday. The DNA ...

BOSTON — The man who once claimed to be the Boston Strangler has been linked to one of the 11 victims by DNA evidence for the first time, leading authorities to plan to exhume his remains for further ...

WASHINGTON -- The identity of the notorious Boston Strangler was cast into doubt yesterday by new DNA evidence that fails to link the man who confessed to the string of 1960s rape-murders to the last ...

BOSTON (AP) - Authorities say DNA tests on the remains of a man who once claimed to be the Boston Strangler confirm he killed the woman believed to be the serial killer's last victim. Albert DeSalvo ...