Serial Killer Autopsy

Serial Killer Autopsy: Albert DeSalvo, The Boston Strangler

A Clinical Dissection of One of America's Most Controversial Serial Killer Cases

Between 1962 and 1964, thirteen women were brutally murdered in the Boston area by a killer who entered their locked apartments, sexually assaulted them, strangled them with ligatures tied in distinctive bows, and left their bodies in deliberately degrading poses. The crimes terrorized a city, baffled investigators, and captured national attention. The perpetrator became known as the Boston Strangler, one of the most infamous serial killers in American history.

In 1965, Albert DeSalvo, a convicted serial rapist already serving time for the "Green Man" sexual assaults, confessed to being the Boston Strangler. His detailed confession seemed to solve the case. Yet he was never prosecuted for the murders. Questions about his guilt persisted for decades. Then, in 2013, DNA evidence definitively linked him to one victim but left twelve other murders scientifically unproven.

Was Albert DeSalvo really the Boston Strangler? Or was he a narcissistic sex offender who falsely confessed to murders he did not commit?

Serial Killer Autopsy: Albert DeSalvo, The Boston Strangler applies the systematic methodology of forensic autopsy to this enduring mystery. Like a medical examiner dissecting a body to determine cause of death, this book dissects every aspect of the case, the crime scenes, the physical evidence, DeSalvo's psychological pathology, his controversial confession, the DNA revolution that partially solved the mystery, and the alternative theories that persist despite evidence.

Drawing on psychiatric evaluations, court transcripts, investigative records, confession recordings, DNA reports, and interviews spanning six decades, this book provides the most comprehensive examination of the Boston Strangler case ever published. It separates fact from mythology, evidence from speculation, and reaches conclusions that are honest about both what we can know and what remains forever uncertain.

Serial Killer Autopsy: Albert DeSalvo - The Boston Strangler is the definitive account of a case that has fascinated and frustrated investigators for more than sixty years. It is true crime at its most rigorous, clinical in its methodology, comprehensive in its scope, and unflinching in its pursuit of truth.

The autopsy table is prepared. The examination begins. The truth, as much as truth can be established from crimes committed more than half a century ago, awaits discovery.